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Active Recovery Workout: What to Do on Rest Days
An active recovery day keeps you moving without adding fatigue. What to do, how hard to go, how long to train, and three 30-minute sessions to try.
Guides
Training guides
Research-backed recovery guides you can turn into a program in the builder.
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Light Gym Day: How to Plan an Easy Workout
A light gym day keeps your routine and lifts moving when you need an easier session. Loads, reps, effort and a 40-minute easy gym workout to follow.
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Should You Work Out When Sore? Training With DOMS
Sore after training? Learn what DOMS is, when it is fine to work out, how to adjust your session, and what actually eases soreness, backed by research.
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"Active recovery, massage, compression garments, immersion, contrast water therapy, and cryotherapy induced a small to large decrease (-2.26 < g < -0.40) in the magnitude of DOMS, while there was no change for the other methods."
Dupuy and colleagues, An Evidence-Based Approach for Choosing Post-exercise Recovery Techniques, Frontiers in Physiology, 2018