17/11/2017
heute mal ein paar Tipps von Kilian zur Erholung.... Kilian Jornet
Recovery Tips:
Many people is asking me how do I do to recover from races or hard training weeks. I think is multiple factors that make us tired and we need to identify them them to decide the best way to recover, is not the same if it is a muscular recovery or cardiovascular, if it is from a short race or a long...let's try to find some tips:
Muscular recovery: muscles normally take between 2 to 3 days to recover the fibers, so it is important if we feel really tired muscles to take it easy during the following 2 days. I like to do Compex recovery programs then, but is also very important to sleep well to let the muscles rebuild.
If we have a deeper injury or tiredness on one specific muscle it will be important to find why it appears (bad technique, a fall, biomechanics, to much steep uphill...) and try to change-it. On the meantime I normally do some stretching and strong massage or form roll on the place. If it is some need of building muscles around it is important to do some strength training, I do some Compex strength on my shoulders or back from past falls and injuries to keep it stable.
I'm not a big fan of protein drinks or thinks like that, but I have seen that with a normal diet (and I don't eat meat or drink milk) the muscles recover very well after a race eating normal and doing some less impact sports (cycling, climbing, mountaineering).
Cardio recovery: Since I was kid one of my strength point have been my recovery, being able to accumulate hard trainings. I think it is a matter of body adaptation. If the body is used to exercise for 5 to 10 hours a day it will not feel tired after that, and to be used to do that it means years and years of doing it. Progression is a basic, I started training "seriously" when I was 13 years old (600h/year) before I did a lot of running, cross country skiing and mountaineering almost daily. at 17 years old I was training 900h, at 20, 1000h, now 1200h. So the body can accept the amount of trainings and recovery faster on a cardiovascular way from long or short efforts. Then it is to listen to the body, it is important to train hard, and some weeks is important to train feeling really tired, but when you start to feel unmotivated, when you feel that the running you are doing is not improving or doing anything to your body is better to stop and rest. It is important to understand why are we doing the trainings we do. If we do long ones is to work on what, strength, intensity...To know witch ones are really important and when is more beneficial to rest. And then to, Think that traveling, working, stress from family, work or other thinks also affect our body and it is as important to have quality rest as training.