Recovery and Rest
Resting Heart Rate and What It Says About Your Recovery
Your legs feel heavy, your sleep was fine, and you cannot tell whether you need a rest day or are just being lazy.
Nutrition and recovery writer
Dana spent years treating food as a performance variable before realising that most people need basic eating right before they need optimisation. She writes for people who want to eat well for training without turning every meal into a calculation.
Recovery and Rest
Your legs feel heavy, your sleep was fine, and you cannot tell whether you need a rest day or are just being lazy.
Nutrition
You drink a coffee on the way to the gym and either feel great or spend the warm up jittery with a racing heart.
Recovery and Rest
You finish your last set, you are tired and hungry, and the poster on the gym wall says to spend ten minutes stretching.
Nutrition
You are standing in a supplement aisle looking at forty tubs that all promise lean muscle, and the cheapest one costs a third...
Recovery and Rest
Your legs are stiff from Monday's squats, your plan says "active recovery" for Tuesday, and you have no idea what that means.
Nutrition
You cut carbs to lean out, and now your squat feels heavy by the third set and your sessions leave you flat for the rest of the...