The day after an interval training workout, it's helpful to perform a low volume,
slow recovery workout.
Not exact matches
The combination of fast - digesting whey proteins with
slow - acting casein proteins is essential for athletic
recovery because of its ability to provide a constant flow of amino acids and the essential nutrients needed to replenish a body and maximize post
workout recovery while building and repairing lean muscles.
That said, here's a 30 - minute running
workout that alternates varying inclines with short bursts of sprinting and
slower recovery periods for a seriously booty - burning session that will blast fat and keep your mind engaged.
The result; weaker
workout, less muscle development, increased fatigue, over training, burnout, longer
recovery and a
slower metabolism.
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Slow recovery from
workouts.
Recovery from
workouts is usually
slower, but not horrible.
For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday night and Saturday morning running a warm up pace that makes me overheat, then starting the interval
workout which involves me sometimes running
slower than the «warm up pace «and watching the lithe people run away from me at incredible speeds, then «slinky - ing «forward while they run back for me on the
recovery, watching them sprint away from me some more, and then eventually finding myself labouring up a hill to exit the river valley at the end of the
workout to find the group of speedsters waiting to fist pound it out before we run back to the shop at a cool down pace which only makes me sweat even more.
When the damaged muscles can't get of the nutrients they need to repair,
recovery is
slower and you may not be fully prepared for your next hard
workout.
There are for exam, I mentioned Doug McGuff's Body by Science book earlier and he recommends a full week of
recovery in between those
slow resistance training exercises that he prescribes in that book and that's because they're just so freakin» hard, I mean you really lay it out there and you're really really pushing your body and taking yourself to complete fatigue if you're doing those
workouts properly and sometimes that takes a full week of
recovery.