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How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance?

> How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance? Physiological strategies aim to remove metabolic by-products and replace lost fluids and energy stores. Cool down The cool down, or active recovery, is a group of lower intensity exercises performed immediately after exercise to remove waste products, decrease muscle soreness (DOMS), improve muscular relaxation, bring the cardiovascular system back to rest and allow time to reflect on the training or performance.

How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance? Home > PDHPE > Core 2 - Factors Affecting Performance > Focus questions > How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance?

How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance?

> How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance? Recovery strategies Key Messages The ability to recover after competition and training is essential in ensuring that optimal performances can be maintained. Top Ten Foods To Reduce Muscle Soreness & Speed Recovery After A Tough Workout. Sometimes a little muscle soreness can be pleasant: You worked hard and reached a new level of athleticism or strength.

Top Ten Foods To Reduce Muscle Soreness & Speed Recovery After A Tough Workout

But when the soreness gets severe, it can become a big ol’ pain in the gluteus maximus. A lot of people make the mistake of dismissing recovery as something that’s too complicated or that they don’t have tine for. 3 Not-So-Obvious Exercises to Combat Achilles Pain. Achilles pain can be debilitating, frustrating, often long lasting.

3 Not-So-Obvious Exercises to Combat Achilles Pain

Traditional exercises for this pain usually include passively stretching your calves with a towel, going against a wall to stretch, and doing some heel lifts once you can do so without pain. But is this enough? Is it really going to solve the main issue behind your Achilles pain? Seven Mistakes Women Make When Trying To Change Their Bodies. Women have made a huge impact on the hardcore training world.

Seven Mistakes Women Make When Trying To Change Their Bodies

We’re busting the myths, disproving the lies, and taking the lead in helping other women look and feel amazing. Yet, mistakes still get made, often because we don’t have all the information we need in order to use the most effective strategies. The good news is that using the following three principles easily solves most of these mistakes: 1) Do some form of training with weights. 2) Do some form of interval exercise in which you alternate bursts of effort with rest. 3) Eat a whole foods diet that optimizes protein and carb intake for your unique genetics.

This list will identify common errors and tell you how to use these principles so that you get everything you can out of your efforts. 4 Tips for Building Your Own Bodyweight Training Programs. As a mom who works at home with three kids, bodyweight training has been a lifesaver.

4 Tips for Building Your Own Bodyweight Training Programs

A workout you can take to the playground is bound to be a keeper. And I'm not the only one who feels that way.

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Conditioning. Plyometric Training for Sport. Plyometric training has been shown to be one of the most effective methods for improving explosive power(1).

Plyometric Training for Sport

A wide variety of athletes can benefit from power training, particularly if it follows or coincides with a strength training program. This article outlines how to set up a plyometric program covering the parameters for sets, repetitions and exercise selection. The guidelines on this page can be used in conjunction with the various animated lower body plyometric exercises and upper body plyometric drills in this section of the website. If you are interested in how plyometric training works and the physiology behind it, see the the physiology of plyometrics article. Plyometrics & The Strength Training Program.

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