The Athlete's Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance - Sage Rountree

Résumé :

The Athlete's Guide to Recovery is the first comprehensive exploration of the art and science of athletic rest. Certified cycling, triathlon, and running coach and yoga instructor Sage Rountree guides athletes to full recovery and improved performance. Her book explains how much rest athletes need, how to measure fatigue, and how to make the best use of recovery tools.

Biographie:

Sage Rountree is America's leading expert on yoga for athletes. She is a certified endurance sports coach as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country as well as at Carolina Yoga Company, a yoga studio she co-owns.

An accomplished competitor in running and triathlon, Sage has raced distances from sprint triathlon to Ironman ?, 400 meters to 40 miles, including the Boston Marathon and the 2008 Short-Course Age-Group World Championship in Vancouver, Canada, where she represented the U.S. as a member of Team USA.

Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, Competitor, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines. Sage is the author of The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, The Runner's Guide to Yoga, The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga, and The Athlete's Guide to Recovery.

Sommaire:

Part 1: Defining and Measuring Recovery
1. Why Recovery Matters
2. Avoiding Overtraining
3. Qualitative Measurements of Recovery
4. Quantitative Measurements of Recovery
5. Recovery from Injury and Illness

Part 2: Recovery Techniques
6. Active Recovery
7. Stress Reduction
8. Sleep
9. Nutrition and Hydration
10. Supplements
11. Cold and Heat
12. Home Technological Aids
13. Other Technological Aids
14. Massage
15. Self-Massage
16. Restorative Yoga
17. Meditation and Breathing

Part 3: Recovery Protocols
18. Putting It Together
19. Recovery from Short-Distance Training and Racing
20. Recovery from Long-Distance Training and Racing

Critique:

Rountree helps you make the most of your down time, with methods both simple (massage, napping) and technical (computerized compression sleeves). -- Bicycling magazine

An all-encompassing guide for how (and why) to make recovery an extension of your training...If there's a recovery tool on the mraket, it's probably explained in this book--think everything from compression socks to Epsom salts to NormaTec MVP boots. -- Triathlete magazine

The Athlete's Guide to Recovery stresses the oft-neglected key to a successful season of endurance sports--recovery...This invaluable resource will enable you to maintain that hard-to-find balance between rigorous training and rest so that you can feel great and compete at your highest capability. -- USA Triathlon Life magazine

The Athlete's Guide to Recovery is a truly essential resource for endurance athletes. Most competitive endurance athletes do not do enough for recovery and this book is the only comprehensive and credible res