Recovery

Muscles do not grow during training, but in the rest that follows. Load and tension put stress on the muscle fibres and leave micro tears behind. Only during recovery does the body repair those structures, strengthen them and adapt them to future load. That process is called hypertrophy and is the actual key to building muscle.

Cutting recovery short means working against your own progress: if the micro tears do not heal fully, overtraining and injury follow. Recovery therefore works on three levels. It enables muscle fibres to grow, it raises performance because the body can adapt to the training stimulus, and it prevents injury.

This category collects the methods that work between two sessions and sorts out what role compression and nutrition play in them. The article on the importance of recovery shows how the process can be supported with the STARKFELD recovery boots and the electric shaker. The articles describe routines the way they fit into a normal training week. New topics are added continuously.