Follow-Up: Steve Bechtel — Active Recovery: Everything You Need to Know (Teaser)
The Nugget Climbing Podcast
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The Importance of a Higher Intensity Recovery From Hard Sport Climbing
Roxanne Jones: I was immediately thinking like, yeah, if I have a hard bouldering day, then the next day, my body kind of wants to go on a walk. And that feels pretty good. Whereas if I've had a hard sport climbing day and I'm just totally bricked with sore forearms, I want to do some easy traversing because they feel bad. She says active recovery is probably better in a practical sense but there's a study that came out that showed pumpy routes can get really high levels of physiologically what climbers call 'exhaustion'Jones: We'll dive into a couple of these studies because there's some interesting things to think about
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