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#70 - Sleep, recovery and fatigue in athletes with Professor Shona Halson

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Recovery in athletes: Training apps and wearables

This chapter explores the use of training apps and wearable devices to track recovery in athletes, highlighting the limitations of some apps in assessing muscle damage. The speakers discuss the concept of readiness scores provided by wearables and debate whether recovery should be reactive or proactive. They also touch on the research on compression garments as a recovery strategy and emphasize the importance of listening to one's own body in determining fatigue and recovery.

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