The body rebuilding itself after injury or training stimulus.
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What is “overtraining” a.k.a. “CNS fatigue”?
After intense training sessions, I sometimes have the following symptoms:
My mind races. I can still be functional and productive, but getting it to hold still long enough to make a simple decision ...
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What is a recovery meal, and of what should it consist?
People sometimes talk about a "recovery meal".
What is a recovery meal?
When should one eat the recovery meal?
Of what should it consist?
There may be variation depending on the preceding ...
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What exercises should I do to strengthen my groin muscles?
I had pulled my groin muscle, so I cooled it with ice after the injury occurred and took 2 days of rest. Now I am feeling better, but I want to prevent the injury from reoccurring.
So can anyone ...
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Taking a break from weightlifting - how often?
I am doing exercises with weights 3 times per week. I started training 2 years ago and have made steady progress. I have lost weight gained strength. I had a very strict routine and I pushed myself to ...
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Can you overtrain?
This goes along with a prior question, what over-training signs to look for. Is there such a thing as over-training? or is it that you injure yourself from lack of proper training and don't perform ...
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Alternative sources of potassium to the banana?
I have started working out recently and my muscles hurt to say the least. I heard potassium helps with that and that bananas are a good source of it. The thing is that I hate the taste of bananas. Is ...
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Effective ways to decrease recovery time
What are some effective ways to decrease recovery time? I find my recovery times are in excess of 30 minutes after hard exercise, such as sprinting (on a road bike), despite exercising fairly ...
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Using a Foam Roller
Recently a personal trainer recommended I use a foam roller for muscle massage and flexibility. Most research I've done on the web simply states the roller 'massages the muscle' or 'breaks down scar ...
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What's an appropriate recovery period after a summit event?
After a big event (in my case a weekend tennis tournament), what's an appropriate recovery time before continuing to workout again?
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Fruit as optimal post-workout snack? What else besides fruit?
A friend asked me once if eating a banana was a good post-work out snack, to which I gave him a knee jerk reply of "any fruit is a good post work-out snack". I've conditioned myself in to thinking ...
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How to regain endurance after a long period of rest?
I have always been a sport junkie, running once a week 15 miles, doing weight lifting and practicing kettlebells. After the new year the doctors found a tumor in my chest and luckily now after the ...
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Should I Be Discouraged if my Muscles Aren't Sore After Exercise?
A day or two after exercise my muscles will sometimes be sore, "wonderfully sore" I'll say. I think this is common, and I know I've done a good workout when this happens. But sometimes, my muscles ...
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How to recover from 5 days of intense dancing/fitness?
Last year I went to the Montreal Salsa Convention and had lots of fun dancing all those 5 nights. I had bought trail mix bars and whole grain stuff and lots of proper health food to keep me ...
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Working out while slightly ill
I'm a novice weight lifter, currently going to the gym 3 times/week for an hour each time. I recently came down with a head cold. I know that if I go to the gym I won't be able to hit my usual max ...
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Knee Dysfunction- Baker's Cyst- How can I help myself?
I will spare everyone the gory details, but I went to my sports medicine doc yesterday and an ultrasound showed a Baker's Cyst had formed at the back of my left knee. My two options were physical ...
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Alternating exercise to get faster fitness gains
In roughly 12 weeks I am going on an alpine mountaineering holiday with friends. I'm sure that the fitter I am the more I will enjoy it. I've started doing the couch to 5k program to improve my ...
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Recovering from trochanteric (hip) bursitis
Last week I started noticing some pain building in my right hip after my morning runs, culminating on last Wednesday when I could barely walk without severe pain in the afternoon. I took a few days of ...
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What are some signs of overtraining?
I'm currently working out 5-6 days a week, typically 3 days of weights and 2-3 of HIIT/Tabata. My focus is on strength and endurance training (not size). When I feel tired I take a day off...some ...
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Am I getting sore too late?
Typically when I workout I am not sore the next day. I'm sore the day after the next day.
My workout buddy is always sore the very next day, and I think he usually recovers faster. I was wondering if ...
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Taking multivitamin tablets without workout , will it cause any problems ?
I was doing workout last year and was regularly taking multivitamins and whey protein. But now, I am resting after a bone fracture, So I am no regular to Gym. I am not taking meat and heavy foods now ...
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How do my eating habits affect my recovery?
I'm somewhat overweight (BMI of 28) and mainly sit behind my desk all day, so I've been on quite a calorie deprived diet. I go running about three times a week for half an hour and occasionally go ...
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Cold Bath After Training - Recovery Techniques
I am a sprinter around the grand old age of 21.
At our track, there is a lot of debate of whether cold bath (or ice bath if you're brave enough) aids recovery of the muscle. What are your opinions?
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Any suggestions on dealing with a longer-term shoulder injury?
I jammed my shoulder a few years ago while catching myself in a skateboard fall, and since then, it has had issues, off and on, where during periods where it bothers me, I can't do pushups or dumbbell ...
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Are there any specific exercises I can do to strengthen my knee?
I find after strenuous exercise (competitive basketball specifically) that my knee needs a couple days to recover. Are there any specific exercises I can do to strengthen the joint and reduce my ...
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Exercises while recovering from groin injury/surgery
I have a long-standing (no pun intended) injury which gets worse when doing any kind of leg exercise that puts strain on the groin area. For example sit-ups, press-ups and plank exercises all cause ...
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Do I need to take creatine and L-glutamine on rest days to maintain a load?
I use creatine and L-glutamine for my workouts, typically taking the L-glutamine about an hour before my workout, and creatine immediately after. (I don't take them together because I understand they ...
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How can I recover more quickly from leg-intensive cardio workouts?
It seems that every time I do a leg-intensive cardio workout, like stair climbing, intense elliptical machine, or running more than 3-4 miles, my legs take forever to bounce back. They don't hurt so ...
