Fitness Focus

There is a sense of humor in the morning after a hard workout. You’ve had a good night’s sleep, you’re feeling morally upright and you sit down on the toilet…

Enter any gym at 6 a.m. and you’ll witness two religious rituals: people rushing past the stretching mat in its entirety, considering it a waste of their precious forty minutes,…

Post Workout Recovery this is where people don’t take pictures of this part of training. It’s the actual adaptation that happens 24 hours after the training. The session was the…

There are two kinds of rest and only one of them is really restful. Passive rest. The couch. The series. The 6,000 steps that never were. Active recovery consists of…

Any supplement store’s recovery section will have a hundred bottles promising better mornings, faster muscle healing, sharper performance. The device that does all three is in your bedroom, which is…

In gyms, physio offices and living rooms across the globe a cylinder of compressed foam that was once used for balance exercises is now being rolled with pained faces, usually…

Sauna Recovery is a special healing agent, you don’t need to make any effort. Heat. Silence. Twenty minutes of deliberately being warm in a wooden room. No foam, no compression,…

Hydration for Workouts there are two types of advice about hydration; both are incorrect. The first is the gallon-jug influencer who always has a tiny aquarium with them, as though…

Recovery Day Workout there is a kind of guilt that comes with rest days. You’ve now developed the habit of training 3 or 4 days a week, and every fiber…