Recovery: The Key to Improving Your Performance
How Recovery Affects Your Performance:
1. Recovery
Recovery after training describes how effectively your body is able to recover from physical exertion. More specifically, it refers to your body's ability to restore itself after exercise.
Following a workout, your body enters a catabolic phase, meaning it is temporarily weakened while metabolic by-products are broken down. This is why recovery is so important: during the anabolic phase, your energy stores are replenished and waste products are removed from the body.
2. The Principle of SupercompensationImproves bone density and the quality of connective and supporting tissue.
Bone density also decreases as part of the natural aging process and the risk of osteoporosis is increased. Women are more likely to experience bone loss due to declining estrogen levels during menopause.
Lack of physical activity also affects this. Strength training promotes bone metabolism and can thus help slow or reduce the decline in bone density.