Your recovery sucks.

Well maybe not completely but I’m 90% sure it does. 

Want more good news? Your poor recovery is not limited to the sport you are pursuing. Like many things it’s negatively impacting your personal relationships, your career and let’s be honest your happiness in life. 

How do I know this? Data. I have the data. It was and is consistently delivered fresh to my ears on a daily basis. Over the course of the last 20 years I have had the privilege of delivering over ten thousand hours of coaching (listening) and sat around chatting with groups of people about enhanced human performance in various places.

The basis of many of those conversations (not driven by me) is around whoop scores, massage types, supplements and the like. All incredible tools for the final layer of the recovery cake, but the final layer is what they are.

I sit there and listen to the point where the arguments around sleep scores and microdosing almost overboil. I then come to the party with my simple questions such as: 

-how are your relationships?

-what way of eating do you follow and how consistent is it?

-do you sleep with your phone by your bed?

-when was the last time you clocked up 56 hours of sleep (not bed) time in a 7 day period?

The list goes on and is never combined with tech or the latest “research study” which no one has even checked the sample size of. (If that sparks your interest as to the lies we are being told have a read of Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.) 

In simple English? 

Your ice bath and new duvet with its own thermostat is super nice and cost you a lot of money but if you want to recover better from the stressors of life you are shopping in the wrong aisle. 

Focus just on the four questions above and I welcome you to the 10% that are actually recovering well. 

No Weakness.

Marcus