
Good to Go
What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
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Allyson Ryan
An eye-opening, myth-busting exploration of how the human body can best recover and adapt to sports and fitness training
In recent years "recovery" has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers.
In Good to Go, acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden takes listeners on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance, she examines the latest trends among athletes - from NFL star Tom Brady's infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles' pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps' "cupping" ritual - and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself, including cryochambers, floatation tanks, and infrared saunas.
At a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: Do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance?
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However, we’ve missed any address of evolution in sport and recovery, and some studies she cites seem to contradict her point with others: studies lacking good protocols should be ignored. At one point she noted a study, in support of her point, of west coast to east coast NFL travel and a team’s ability to cover the gambling spread. This seems to ignore gambling metrics evolving in forty years, sports teams travel improvements to gain more rest, and other factors. Yet, the author denigrates studies with similar flaw in an effort to prove her hypothesis.
If you read the book, avoid the audio: it’s a sometimes confusing listen, especially when the reader badly mispronounces several names. Oof.
I had hopes of learning more about sport and recovery advances. I must be one of the many folks duped by such silliness.
Love the Idea of the Book
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Ultimately it’s all subjective feel and if you think and believe it helps, then it does - for most items.
Subjective Feel is best
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If you like debunking things this book is great. But it hasn’t helped me and only made me more confused.
I am going to try to listen to my body more to see what happens.
Listen to your body
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A little bit of knowledge in a long listen
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I'll save you some time:
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Good, not great
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Intriguing commentary on the lesser discussed aspects of the cooldown period of activity kept me engaged
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Too Much on What’s Bad, No Real Thoughts on What’s Good
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1) She discusses how we dont need salt on a marathon quoting Lore of Running, what she never mentions which is in Lore of Running, is that if you are one of the 10% who have 4-5 times the salt requirements of a normal runner, you could be in serious trouble without salt.
2) TSS, is a good measure for the bike, but not all sports like she says. TSS was only created for the bike, it is used for other sports, but not for it. Try a 800 TSS week on the bike and then on the run and tell me if it is the same.
3) She uses Ryan Hall as an example of over training, which is true that he often pushed too hard to early and was often flat for the season, but he clearly points out in his book that he constant desire for losing weight destroyed his career.
Great Start
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Review of recovery science with just the right amount of skepticism
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