I can remember when I provided teams and athletes that I worked with a smorgasbord of recovery strategies similar to the list below. They were time sensitive, so I classified them as modalities that you should use immediately after training or game time, and then the other strategies implemented within the next 24 hours.
I can remember going to a conference and listening to a panel of experts talk about recovery and somebody asked if you had to choose 1-2 recovery strategies to prioritise, what would they be? They all agreed “sleep”and “nutrition” were key. Get those right and you are 90-95% there in getting your athletes ready for the next training or game. The learnings for me in relation to the last post on “attention” were: 1) my attention to detail was misdirected; 2) I was guilty of over complicating things; and 3) I was certainly not concentrating on the big boulders.
Have you got those sleep and nutrition strategies nailed down and monitored for those you work with?
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