Increase Recovery Time?!?

Jordant107

I seem to be addicted to exercising- I can;t go a day without running at least either running 3-7km, doing a full weights workout, or getting on the exercise bike for an hour straight!!! It doesn't bother me that I have this particular obsession with exercise, but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for increasing the rate at which I can recover?? I usually stretch before and after exercise, have a protein shake to refuel after exercising, get plenty of sleep, eat clean, and drink plenty of water. I never feel particularly worn out or sore when I exercise the next day, but I can usually tell that I'm not at my 100% level. The only time I'll have a rest day is if I have an injury, or am planning to run with friends (I have to be able to put up a good fight!!). I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

crisanderson27

I seem to be addicted to exercising- I can;t go a day without running at least either running 3-7km, doing a full weights workout, or getting on the exercise bike for an hour straight!!! It doesn't bother me that I have this particular obsession with exercise, but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for increasing the rate at which I can recover?? I usually stretch before and after exercise, have a protein shake to refuel after exercising, get plenty of sleep, eat clean, and drink plenty of water. I never feel particularly worn out or sore when I exercise the next day, but I can usually tell that I'm not at my 100% level. The only time I'll have a rest day is if I have an injury, or am planning to run with friends (I have to be able to put up a good fight!!). I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

Rest days...sorry, that is the best answer.

You can do active rest, yoga, foam rolling, go for walks...leisurely swimming...but overworking is far, far more detrimental than underworking.

It's really rather simple.

JNick77

I seem to be addicted to exercising- I can;t go a day without running at least either running 3-7km, doing a full weights workout, or getting on the exercise bike for an hour straight!!! It doesn't bother me that I have this particular obsession with exercise, but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for increasing the rate at which I can recover?? I usually stretch before and after exercise, have a protein shake to refuel after exercising, get plenty of sleep, eat clean, and drink plenty of water. I never feel particularly worn out or sore when I exercise the next day, but I can usually tell that I'm not at my 100% level. The only time I'll have a rest day is if I have an injury, or am planning to run with friends (I have to be able to put up a good fight!!). I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

Light plyometric supersets... Something like,

a1) Plyo Push-ups x 3
a2) Broad Jumps x 3
a3) Frog Jumps x 3

Rest one minute and repeat. You repeat this cycle only until you feel good. When you feel good and like the next set couldn't be as good as the last set then you're done. You don't lay-off on any set either, each rep should be max effort. It's actually pretty effective, I read about it a couple years ago and tried it when I was doing some higher volume work.

Jordant107

Do you have a website address of where I can find out how to do the exercises??

JNick77

Do you have a website address of where I can find out how to do the exercises??

Here's the original article, http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/neural_charge_training

About midway down on the right-side of the web page are links to push-ups and jumps. This is actually pretty cool.

AlphamaleBAMF

I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

I found taking BCAA's helped with my recovery time. And I've also experimented with creatine cycles. It seems to make quite an impact as well. Or it did for me anyway.

Jordant107

I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

I found taking BCAA's helped with my recovery time. And I've also experimented with creatine cycles. It seems to make quite an impact as well. Or it did for me anyway.

Thanks a lot- I'll look into it!!

Jordant107

Do you have a website address of where I can find out how to do the exercises??

Here's the original article, http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/neural_charge_training

About midway down on the right-side of the web page are links to push-ups and jumps. This is actually pretty cool.

Cheers- I'll check it out!!

JNick77

Do you have a website address of where I can find out how to do the exercises??

Here's the original article, http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/neural_charge_training

About midway down on the right-side of the web page are links to push-ups and jumps. This is actually pretty cool.

Cheers- I'll check it out!!

For me it was one of those, "WTF is this guy talking about moments" and then I just tried it and found out how good it was.

heybales

I seem to be addicted to exercising- I can;t go a day without running at least either running 3-7km, doing a full weights workout, or getting on the exercise bike for an hour straight!!! It doesn't bother me that I have this particular obsession with exercise, but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for increasing the rate at which I can recover?? I usually stretch before and after exercise, have a protein shake to refuel after exercising, get plenty of sleep, eat clean, and drink plenty of water. I never feel particularly worn out or sore when I exercise the next day, but I can usually tell that I'm not at my 100% level. The only time I'll have a rest day is if I have an injury, or am planning to run with friends (I have to be able to put up a good fight!!). I know most will tell me to have rest days, but I'm not asking for that- all I'm after is some tips other than rest that might help me to recover.

Must you go all out each workout, or can you wrap your mind around making some days recovery level days?
That means for cardio, keeping the HR in the fat-burning or active recovery zone. It adds little stress to the muscles, but blood flow allows recovery better.

Now, this really depends on the purpose of your exercise.

If it's acceptable that your body can't repair to make itself stronger, and you'll just end up basically burning some cal's, then that's fine too.

If you really would like to be stronger, or faster, or better endurance, ect, then you just have some facts to accept.
Or injuries or overtraining syndrome eventually if you keep trying to press hard intensity.

I'd suggest just making the exercise enjoyable level, no making it hard. Because frankly you aren't going to get much out of it anyway, so why pretend.