Your body is an amazing adaptable healing machine.
Imagine two elite athletes. One recovers quicker, the other didn’t know recovery was a thing. Overnight, weeks, months and years…
Waste buildup in legs, spine.
Lymph drains waste for the body with passive pumps. “Passive” means that nothing happens without movement or gravity. If they were active pumps, waste would be out no problem.
In the legs and feet most, waste pools up at the bottom due to gravity. Many athletes do nothing to get this waste out.
What to do? Lie down, elevate legs, don’t sit in chairs.
Let gravity help those legs. Rest them above heart level so the passive pumps can allow drainage. Flexing and relaxing muscles gets the pumps working better.
Prolonged Sitting, esp. in chairs and coaches, stunts recovery. It also feasts on athletic potential, stiffens hip muscles, and has surprising risks close to smoking cigarettes. Reducing it helps the body significantly.
Sitting on the Ground has way more options for movement, positions, and working important hip rotations.
Advanced Recovery
There are advanced methods for recovery that pro athletes come to love. However, without elevating legs more and avoiding sitting, advanced methods don’t work too well. These simple steps are game changers.