Sleep
The practice of prioritizing adequate, high-quality sleep as the foundational recovery protocol, during which growth hormone surges, muscles repair, and the brain clears waste.
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How Sleep compares
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Plunge
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cold water immersion tub
Johannes ranks sleep above cold plunge as the most essential recovery tool, calling it the best thing you can do.
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Johannes ranks sleep above cold plunge as the most essential recovery tool, calling it the best thing you can do.
"Sleep and healthy food is one of my key factors to my recovery. Sometimes it's just good to go back and sleep — just an hour in the middle of the day after a hard training session. I think that's kind of the best recovery you can do, mor..."
Ranked above compression boots (Hyperice), sauna, cold plunge, and red light therapy as the most essential recovery practice
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Electrolytes
Direct rival
mineral supplement for rehydration
Stephanie ranks sleep above electrolytes as the top recovery tool, calling it S tier for growth hormone, muscle repair, and brain cleanup.
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Stephanie ranks sleep above electrolytes as the top recovery tool, calling it S tier for growth hormone, muscle repair, and brain cleanup.
"The best recovery protocol I can tell you is sleep. That is where you have things like growth hormone and IGF-1 tend to surge, muscles grow when you're sleeping, the brain cleans itself out. Sleep is the number one thing that everybody s..."
Ranked above sauna and electrolytes as the top recovery protocol
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"Sleep and healthy food is one of my key factors to my recovery. Sometimes it's just good to go back and sleep — just an hour in the middle of the day after a hard training session. I think that's kind of the best recovery you can do, more than jus..."
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