Full Description
Coaches, managers and athletes frequently ask about how they can recover as fast as possible from fatigue and improve subsequent performance. Recovery from Strenuous Exercise informs students, athletes and practicing strength and conditioning coaches and performance therapists on how to use the latest scientific evidence to inform their recovery practice - particularly during high training volumes and competitive cycles.
This book empowers the athlete, the coach and the therapist by giving them greater confidence, improving their critical thinking, helping them to avoid poor practice and enhancing their understanding of what causes fatigue and how its effects can be minimised. Recovery from Strenuous Exercise covers many of the aspects required to make a highly skilled, confident, knowledgeable personal trainer, sports therapist or strength and conditioning coach. It also acts as a recovery 'go-to' guide for competitive recreational athletes who lack the knowledge and guidance on optimal recovery protocols used by their professional peers.
This text serves as a learning and research aid for athletes and those studying vocational personal training and sports therapy courses, and those studying other courses where recovery modalities form part of their undergraduate and postgraduate study, such as strength and conditioning, sports science, sports therapy, sports rehabilitation, osteopathy and physiotherapy.
Contents
Part 1: The Effects of Strenuous Exercise
1. Overtraining and Overreaching
2. Fatigue
3. The Immune System
4. Energy Systems
5. Exercise Induced Muscle Damage
6. Cardiac Recovery
Part 2: Prevention and Recovery Options
7. Supplements
8. Antioxidants
9. Recovery drinks
10. Muscular Cramp, Recovery from Exercise in Extreme Heat and Cold
11. Medications and Banned Substances
Part 3: Commonly Used Modalities
12. Hyperbaric oxygen chambers (HBO)
13. Cryotherapy
14. Thermotherapy
15. Massage, Foam Rollers, Vibration
16. Compression Garments
17. Stretching, Active and Passive Recovery
18. Sleep, Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation
Part 4: Conclusions
18. Summary
19. Summary and Recommendations
20. Summary and Recommendations