Author: Bethany Brookshire / Source: Science News
A tough workout, a long hike or a day reorganizing the garage can leave a body tired, sore and injured.
Some kind of recovery is clearly in order. But relaxing on the couch with Netflix and some chips is so passé.Instead, a sore athlete might stand naked in a chamber of air chilled to well below –100° Celsius (SN Online: 11/13/15). She could slurp on a protein-packed smoothie, squeeze into compression tights or shell out some money for an expensive shakeout on a vibrating device. Sports recovery has become an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But which, if any, of these methods actually work?
In Good to Go, science writer and athlete Christie Aschwanden places everyone’s exercise-recovery darlings under the microscope of scientific skepticism. Recovery is relatively simple. It’s just about getting the body ready to perform again, hopefully harder, faster and better. And yet, she notes, athletes…
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