Allocating time for rest after exercising is just as crucial as the physical activity itself! Prioritizing a thorough recovery routine can significantly enhance your workouts by boosting performance output, promoting muscle growth, and minimizing recovery time, allowing you to return to training quicker.
Reset offers natural therapies to help your body recover post- workout:
Infrared Sauna
Heat therapy is a time-tested approach to enhance recovery and soothe muscle discomfort. By increasing blood flow to targeted areas, heat application helps alleviate muscle stiffness and promotes flexibility. Infrared saunas can be an amazing healing tool for strengthening endurance and performance, on top of neuromuscular recovery. It has been proven that IR therapy is essential for faster recovery in between training sessions.
Heat increases circulation within joints, which in turn reduces synovial fluid thickness. When this fluid is thinner, this causes less friction and less inflammation, helping your body move more freely. As for muscles, infrared heat helps the body remove lactic acid, promoting faster recovery.
Cold Plunge/ Ice Bath
Cold water immersion activates what is known as “Cold shock proteins”, which play a crucial role in muscle repair by responding to the stress induced by exposure to cold temperatures. These specialized proteins are activated in response to cold stress, initiating a cascade of protective mechanisms. In the context of muscle repair, cold shock proteins help mitigate damage caused by exercise-induced stress and promote cellular resilience. They contribute to the regulation of inflammation, apoptosis, and the repair of damaged muscle tissues, ultimately enhancing the body’s adaptive response to physical exertion. This intricate involvement of cold shock proteins highlights their significance in supporting muscle recovery and overall physiological adaptation.
Fascial Stretch Therapy (FST)
Fascial Stretch Therapy (FST) is another tool that can be used to accelerate athletic recovery. Your certified therapist will take you through a system of unique, assisted stretching techniques during the appointment. This can help increase blood flow, reduce muscle soreness, help with injury recovery and athletic performance. FST looks at the whole body and how the systems and tissues that connect it work together. This helps with pain, mobility, range of motion, sleeping patterns, and mood.
Compression Therapy
Compression Therapy, such as Normatec Compression, which utilizes dynamic compression to boost circulation, aiding in the swift delivery of oxygen and nutrients to fatigued muscles. By systematically applying pressure, they effectively reduce inflammation and swelling, promoting quicker muscle repair. The precision of air compression mimics the body’s natural pumping mechanism, flushing out metabolic waste such as lactic acid, resulting in expedited recovery. Whether you’re an athlete seeking peak performance or someone recovering injury, Compression Therapy offers a comprehensive solution for muscle repair.