With the level of stress in our culture, there’s never been a more important time to ensure our bodies are getting not only attention to muscle repair but techniques that include chemical and hormonal balance, nervous system repair, mental state and more.
Rest and recovery protocols are a vital part of any athletic training or fitness program no matter whether you’re an elite athlete or gym rat. With the level of stress in our culture, there’s never been a more important time to ensure our bodies are getting not only attention to muscle repair but techniques that include chemical and hormonal balance, nervous system repair, mental state and more.
Awareness of various recovery protocols should be something every athlete and athletic professional implements to create balance in the body/mind. The emergence of recovery science is new and evolving. Our focus is going to be on the powerful effects of utilizing mindful breathing within recovery strategies.
This article will attempt to bring awareness to three patterns of recovery along with the how and why we recover from stress induced exercise periods regardless of metabolic breakdown of anaerobic and aerobic exercise.