Active Recovery

This is Dave. Dave just finished a triathlon and is demonstrating Savasana, or "Corps Pose." Dave is smart, he knows that the best way to recover from a strenuous workout or competition is to engage in low intensity activities like yoga. You see, low-intensity activities assists blood circulation which, in turn, helps remove lactic acid from the muscle. Low-intensity active recovery appears to significantly reduce accumulated blood lactate and speed muscle recovery. Yoga provides for optimal blood flow without impact to the joints, making it an ideal form of active recovery. Just make sure that you do more poses than just Savasana!!!!!

Other active recovery workouts include; swimming, stationary rowing, climbing, and cycling. The key to this form of recovery is that we keep it a low intensity (roughly 30% RPE)