'Recovery is critically important when applied to sports training because without it we do not adapt physically to become stronger athletes. Although in the first instance you may think that recovery is something that is easy to understand in principle, my motivation to write these pages is because many of even the elite seemingly fail to respect the most basic recovery principles within their programmes. Year in year out, when athletes don't reach their goals through constant injury or illness, the main 'silent', un-addressed culprit is most probably over-training. To overcome these serious shortcomings, you need to have in place a carefully thought-out programme of recovery management...' More
