Recovery Game

Did you know that none of the strength and fitness gains you make happen while you’re at the gym?

Lifting weights and conditioning is actually a stressful on your body. You build strength and adapt when you’re away from the gym.

We stress the body in the gym, and in the couple of days after that, our body has physiological responses to the stress, and then it makes change, and adapts once it’s recovered.

Strength and conditioning is basically a game of recovery. Can you recover and come back stronger or are you just adding more and more stress to the system?

Using this logic, if the gym is stress, it’s in your best interest to do all the things that help your body recharge and recovery between bouts in the gym. Providing it enough calories with nutritious foods, getting adequate sleep, staying hydrated, mobilizing and getting enough movement in through non-exercise physical activity.

All the magic doesn’t happen in the gym, but while you’re recovering from the gym too.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain