This week's episode of The Sunday Shakeout features a training tutorial on one of the most important, yet overlooked topics in the running space. As Stephen Scullion, Irish 2:09 marathoner and Olympian talks about, it's about what you do outside of the training that makes you good. I couldn't agree more. In this episode, I take a deep dive into stress and inflammation and how that ties to recovery. Additionally, I go over four things to consider when you want to enhance your recovery: sleep, nutrition, recovery, and stress reduction. It's easier to work hard the one or two hours everyday that you run and not focus on the other twenty-three hours of the day. In order to get to the next level, you must dial in those other twenty-three hours of the day. That's what I'm here to help you do. I hope you enjoy this episode of The Sunday Shakeout.

Summary:

- Running is a stressor and along with inflammation, stress can both help you and hurt you.

- The fitness development of all runners is limited by their capacity to recover between hard workouts. Therefore, if you recover, then your fitness will increase

- You have to know your limits and recovery profile before you can successfully recover

- Nutrition, sleep, and stress management are the cornerstones of proper recovery

- There are many other recovery techniques outside of sleep, nutrition, and stress management that can aid in recovery (myofascial release, blood flow, etc)

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