Optimal performance cannot be achieved without recovery!!
Sleep is a critical part of recovery after exercise……. and you can monitor sleep!!
Slow wave sleep (SWS) can provide physiological recovery by stimulating protein synthesis, muscle growth & repair, and bone building.
Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) is important for memory consolidation, neural activity, and motor skills.
Checking your recovery and readiness??
It is important to check your recovery status and readiness. If you do not check it, you do not know how your training load impact your body!! Simple measurements might give you a critical information, objectively and subjectively!!
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Resting heart rate is the simplest way to assess your recovery and readiness. In general, lower resting heart rate indicates good recovery and readiness.
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Heart rate variability (HRV) is complex metric, but it can provide useful information about your sympathetic and parasympathetic balance. In general, higher HRV indicates better recovery and readiness.
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It is important that not only objective number tell you ready, but also you feel good recovery and readiness. Simple questionnaire can used for this.
