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How Elite Athletes ACTUALLY Recover

Josh Brett

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Elite athletes spend fortunes on cryo chambers, compression boots and biometric tags, and our feeds sell us the same thing. So I interviewed the people who actually study recovery, then tested it on myself with a half marathon at the end and a blood test after. What worked turned out to be the cheapest, most boring thing on the list.

Huge thanks to Christie Aschwanden for the interview. Her book Good to Go is the best thing written on the recovery industry and shaped a lot of this video: https://a.co/d/02OlSF4C

Nick Littlehales, author of Sleep: https://a.co/d/0flivyFp
Dr Marc Bubbs, author of Peak: https://a.co/d/0bHZB3AF

P.S. I'm not a doctor, and none of this is medical advice, just the best evidence I could find and the people who study it.
The goal is more so to focus on the relative importance of the different variables in the world of recovery so we can get our priorities in check.

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00:00 The World of Athlete Recovery
01:51 Cutting Edge Tech (Modalities & Treatments)
06:50 Monitoring
10:10 Training Plans
13:01 Stress, Sleep, Nutrition
16:02 The Warning of the Simplifier Machine

20 Comments

@brettjosh Creator 2 weeks ago Pinned

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@oza1302 2 months ago

One of the best things about this channel, and probably the most consistent message and underpinning to all these videos, is to stick to fundamentals. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.

@PersonaSlates 2 months ago

I know im well rested if i wake up and i feel well rested. I dont need a watch for that.

@alphacause 2 months ago (edited)

These elite athletes perform at exceptional levels not because of these expensive and complicated tools. They are capable of such feats despite them. It amazes me that grown adults still fall for celebrity endorsements of products and techniques, and rarely ever ask for evidence of a causal link between what they endorse and their achievements.

@lequack7130 2 months ago

All that 1% equipment isn't needed for the 99% of us. We will all make it guys keep working hard !

@o2a943 2 months ago

I have a stressful job and my performances and muscle building just increase massively when I am on holidays with the same work out routine.
Mood is the most important. Nothing is worse than taking your stress from work back home. You mental is down and you have a bad sleep.

@carlosrodriquezofficial 2 months ago

I once heard a story of a guy who consistently won triathlons on a very high level and he said he sat on the couch watching netflix for 6-8 hours a day. Flabbergasted i asked him why and he said with a straight face

"Well, i need to recover"

That day i learned all of these recovery tricks are useless 😂

@frozen_tortus 2 months ago

Josh, never sell out. Thanks for this video.

@sutherland3660 2 months ago

The 3am one is definitely not helping. I had to get up for a job at 3.30am for a year and all it did was give me a bedtime of 1930.

@devinchapman9958 2 months ago

Josh…the fact that you are able to get these interviews is immensely impressive

@slimchad02 2 months ago

The amount of work Brett puts in his videos is amazing 👏 . Thank you for giving us good content. Always waiting for another video

@Robzabest25 1 month ago

u gotta peer review the peer review studies, if they are sponsored by the product the scientist can lie

@KateS9922 2 months ago

Yeah, cuz we are used to the constant productivity. It is very hard for us to "do nothing". No youtube videos on learning piano, no short recovery workout, no house chores with podcast on, no nothing. Just lay down in the park under a tree, enjoy the shade, have a short calm walk, go home, have a chat with family without news blasting on the background and a million chores dishes, cooking, tidying etc, have an early dinner with healthy food without a sugary desert and a large glass of red wine, go away, read a book and have an early night. I dont think I have ever had a single day like that in my entire life and I am pushing 40. Kinda sad.

@Burkuagh1 2 months ago

So it turns out that my abandonment of recovery methods years ago was the best answer lol. Just get good sleep, good food, and exercise.

@bclr6843 2 months ago

16:40 one thing I definitely learned from this video is there was a dr Seuss show

@FCBMYSTRO 2 months ago

Wake up, josh Brett posted

@xario5449 2 months ago

Congrats on the half marathon, that’s a good time!

@rockiecheng3090 1 month ago

I like the way you break things down! And the intention’s you have, while creating this video…

@trypson1 1 month ago

Recently my colleagues talked about their training regime that they use bike trainer or running on track and it got me thinking whether I was losing time not being optimal and just running to the places I like, simply enjoying it. This video helped me realize that I don't need to be optimal. I'm training not necessarily only for getting best results but also for fun and mental health, thank you for it, looking good Josh keep up the good work 😁

@N3vill3 3 days ago (edited)

Something I think is worth pointing out is that there are kind of 2 different types of recovery from exercise (not injury) - the kind that reduces muscle soreness after a workout and might help you relax/sleep a bit better or make it a bit easier to do the next workout but otherwise doesn't do much to help your body adapt, and the kind that probably isn't going to do much for the muscle pain but allows your body to adapt to consistent exercise. The former can be helped with quite a few different gimmicks, but the latter is going to be helped by adequate rest, good sleep, quality nutrition and proper hydration more than any fancy technique or gadget, and it's (usually) the one that's most important