Supporting Champions 083: Glyn Howatson on recovery and adaptation
This week’s guest is Glyn Howatson, Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at Northumbria University. Glyn’s specialist subject is recovery but its recovery with a purpose and that is to optimise neuromuscular adaptation. I spoke to Glyn to try to cut through some of the noise, make sense of an area that has to all intents and purposes exploded in interest over the last few decades. As you’ll hear from the conversation - recovery, training planning, and interventions are dependent on context, timing, circumstance, demand - which can at times make this subject feel like a bit of Rubiks cube. But what Glyn does really well and he has done for as long as I’ve known him - he helps make the complex simple and with that practicable - which for me is a signal of true expertise in the area.
Show notes
Glynn gives a mini intro to who he is and his interest in recovery
Steve discusses his experience of recovery
Training more cleverly on an individual basis particularly in team sports
The Seb Coe training volume story
Reorganisation of training programmes and allowing time for adaptation
The ‘interference effect’ and how to get around it
What can enhance recovery and snake oil!
Hormesis and the training dose
Doing the basics well
Cherry juice, caffeine,
The inverted U!
Links
Follow Glyn on Twitter, https://twitter.com/GlynHowatson
Steve Ingham on Twitter www.twitter.com/ingham_steve
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