Preparing for championships requires season planning and the executions of training programs specifically aimed at ensuring peak performance when that starter’s gun goes.
A key aspect of training is post-exercise recovery and therefore understanding what is needed to maximise the effect of a recovery strategy is critical.
The American Council on exercise has published a research paper titled “The Science of Post-Exercise Recovery” by Lance C. Dalleck, Ph.D., associate professor in the High Altitude Exercise Physiology graduate program at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado.
“Recovery from exercise and competition is a vital component of the overall exercise training paradigm, and paramount for high-level performance and continued improvement. If the rate of recovery is appropriate, higher training volumes and intensities are possible without the detrimental effects of overtraining. Understanding the physiological concept of recovery is essential for designing optimal training programs.” Lance C Dalleck, Ph.D.
In this paper Dr Dalleck discusses the physiology of post-exercise recovery, energy pathways, strategies to enhance recovery, the role post training nutrition plays, alternative methods and misunderstandings in post-exercise recovery including the role of free radicals and antioxidants, and the practical translation of exercise, nutrition and training recovery research into practice.
The paper can read below or can be downloaded.
More research material is publicly available from ACE – the American Institute of Exercise.
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