In Part 2 of this mini-series, we dive into the recovery tools everyone’s talking about — saunas, cold plunges, massage guns, compression boots, and the ever-expanding world of supplements. These strategies can support your training, but they work best once you’ve nailed the fundamentals covered in Part 1: managing training load, fuelling and hydrating well, and getting enough quality sleep.
In this episode, we unpack what these tools are actually doing — largely providing short-term pain relief through changes in blood flow and neurological adaptation — and what they’re definitely not doing (no, they’re not realigning your hips or giving you the ability to train five hours a day on three hours of sleep). Most importantly, we take the pressure off by giving you permission to choose the recovery tools you genuinely enjoy and that make you feel good.
These methods all have their place, but don’t lose sleep over the details — that sleep will do more for your recovery than any cold plunge ever could.
