Why Do We Need Recovery After Sport?
Coaches say there is no athletic effort without recovery. Discover why post-exercise recovery is essential and how marine collagen supports your muscles.
Coaches often say "no athletic effort without recovery." But what is the point of recovery after a training session or sports practice?
Whether in competition, for well-being, health or leisure, everyone has their own way of being physically active. While the quantitative or qualitative aspects of training vary, a healthy lifestyle and appropriate recovery remain essential to compensate for the significant strain placed on the body during physical activity.
What is sports recovery?
Sports recovery is a period set aside for the body during which all the systems engaged during exercise restructure themselves, triggering a metabolic activity higher than normal compared with a period of pure rest.
Why do our recovery abilities vary?
Whatever the effort, the training session or the sporting competition, the body – more or less trained – adapts to the demand created by that effort. This capacity belongs to everyone. Recovery, however, happens more or less quickly depending on our fitness and our training.
What is the process behind athletic effort?
In your sporting practice, you may encounter different types of effort, such as strength, speed, endurance, isometric or anisometric work. During these periods, the body is subjected to intense and unusual stress. Under the action of the motor neurons controlled by our brain, the muscles tense and swell to resist and provide strength while supporting the required movements. This natural reaction causes inflammation of varying severity and often leads to muscle contractures.
Good recovery helps to avoid these reactions and muscle fatigue. This means working on muscular tension through suitable exercises.
To allow the muscles to withstand repeated physical exercise over the long term, and to prevent injury and damage, we must give them quality recovery.
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What injuries occur from a lack of recovery?
We are all aware of the risk of injury during exercise: strains, tears, blockages, sprains or tendinitis, and so on.
We often underestimate the consequences of insufficient recovery: cramps, aches, micro-tears and muscle contractions.
