The Science of Recovery

12/18/19 • 29 min

This episode brings us back to one of the key themes in training: recovery. This time we’re taking a more scientific approach – Polar’s very own recovery specialist, senior researcher Ph.D. Daniela Schäfer Olstad will explain to us what recovery means from the science perspective and takes us through some basic concepts. Training load, supercompensation, autonomic nervous system... Listen and find out how they’re connected.

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