Recovery Modalities – How to Recover Faster
The body usually recovers from peripheral neuromuscular fatigue with rest. There could also be other potential fatigue factors in training since the intensity can be such that there is an accumulation of lactic acid. Fatigue could also be related to external factors such as the sources of stress an athlete faces. Recovery techniques should address both physiological and psychological recovery and serve also as an injury prevention strategy. Therefore, since both major potential fatigue factors can be dealt with just with rest, I will address the recovery process at a larger scale and use strategies that will promote injury prevention, physiological and physical recovery.
Essential Recovery Means
Cold Therapy
How to Deal with Potential Stress Factors
Previously, I’ve explained the concept of recovery and regeneration and how important it is. In this article, I want to talk about stress and how it limits recovery and regeneration. I identified many potential stress factors for softball players and listed a few strategies for each that could help limit the negative effect of these sources of stress. Too much stress will result in decreased performance, decreased rate of improvement, increased fatigue and potentially overtraining. Controlling stress is very important.
Training Camps
Introduction to Recovery and Regeneration
A major issue in high performance sport is being able to train very hard, which elicits a deficit in performance capacity, and to recover from training which elicits an increase in performance capacity. Eventually through many cycles of training, recovery, and adaptation, high performance in competition is possible. Major issues with training very hard include management of the recovery from training so that the athlete can train very hard again soon enough to have a positive influence on the physical state.
In softball, we train frequently to increase power and strength. However, the process of increasing efficiency depends to a large extent on our ability to overcome fatigue and recover and regenerate after each training session. Therefore, just as one plans and follows a training regimen – one must prepare and follow a plan of recovery and regeneration as well.
To be sure, there are many factors, which affect recovery, but when all is said and done, it’s either one or the other. An athlete’s capacity for improvement is dependent upon how recovery is managed from daily training and competitions.
