Recovery
Sleep, nutrition, recovery strategies, and emerging therapies.
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Tart Cherry Juice and Recovery: A Look at the Data
A popular recovery aid with a surprisingly reasonable evidence base for soreness and sleep.
Read →Compression Garments and Recovery
A 2014 meta-analysis found moderate benefits for soreness and recovery, with caveats worth knowing.
Read →Foam Rolling: Real Benefit or Ritual?
Small, real acute gains in flexibility and reduced soreness — minor overall. Where foam rolling earns its place.
Read →Massage and Recovery: What the Evidence Supports
Massage modestly reduces soreness and lowers creatine kinase, but the lactic-acid folklore is wrong. The honest picture.
Read →Sleep Debt and Performance: Can You Repay It?
Partial recovery is possible; full repayment is murkier. What the research shows about catching up.
Read →Active Recovery vs Rest: What the Research Favors
Light movement or full rest? A 2019 systematic review found only weak evidence that active recovery boosts performance.
Read →Creatine for Recovery, Not Just Performance
A well-studied supplement has recovery effects beyond strength — though the muscle-damage data is paradoxical.
Read →DOMS, Explained: What Soreness Does and Doesn't Mean
Soreness mostly tracks unfamiliar eccentric load, not muscle damage or growth. What it signals.
Read →How Much Protein for Recovery? The Distribution Question
Total intake matters most, but spreading it across the day has a real, if modest, edge.
Read →Protein Timing for Recovery: Does the Window Exist?
The anabolic window is real but generous. What the Schoenfeld meta-analysis found about timing vs total protein.
Read →Heat vs Cold for Recovery: When to Use Each
Cold reliably eases soreness but can blunt strength-training gains; heat's recovery case is younger and less settled. Match the tool to the goal.
Read →Sauna and Recovery: What the Finnish Data Shows
Strong observational cardiovascular signals from Finnish cohorts — but weaker proof for muscle recovery.
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