Best Practices for Post-Exercise Recovery

New presentation on best practices for recovery after swim practices and competitions. The presentation is totally applicable to other sports and good general workouts.

Check out this really great graphic from the New York Times on the timing of post-exercise recovery drinks and food.

You can watch my lecture on the topic below:

Speeding Recovery from Training from Greg Wells PhD on Vimeo.

Comments

[tom]

Post-exercise recovery is quickly becoming the next "hot" topic in internet discussion forums related to working out. The marketers and hypsters are starting to jump on the bandwagon with things like "foam rolling" and "recovery drinks". I wonder if, a decade from now, foam rolling will still be considered a good post-workout strategy for recovering from intense exercise?