Recovery Archives

The Ways to Recover: A Perspective of a Rider, Coach, and Physiotherapist

July 14, 2023 at 10:10 am5 min reading

Recovery is essential to professionals at the Tour de France as well as amateurs cycling anywhere around the world. We talked to a coach, physiotherapist, and a pro rider to see what recovery looks like from three different perspectives. You are sure to discover something…

Cheap vs Expensive Ways to Recover

September 1, 2022 at 8:28 am5 min reading

Health & Training

Every cyclist would love to recover faster after a hard ride. There are many different ways to speed up recovery, but they differ in price and effectiveness. What are the things that have the greatest benefit that cost the least? Here is an overview of…

Recovery After a Grand Tour

July 28, 2022 at 1:40 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

Racing for three weeks straight, covering 3,000 km and scaling the Alps and Pyrenees mountains in the process takes a huge toll on the body. What do the pros do to recover day to day? And what happens when their efforts at the Tour finally…

Breaking Through a Training Plateau – Recovery

June 22, 2021 at 5:45 am5 min reading

Health & Training

Maybe your lack of progress is not about the way you train. Recovery is often overlooked or underestimated because cyclists feel like it is secondary to riding. But recovery is the powerful key to breaking a fitness plateau. Let’s see how proper recovery can help…

Recovery Nutrition Explained in 60 Seconds

June 29, 2018 at 1:49 pm5 min reading

Health & Training

Being able to recover well is what helps you train more, perform better, and, most importantly, enjoy the sports you do. A good nutritional strategy is a big part of that and, unfortunately, there are several common mistakes athletes do when fuelling. Check out our…

Recovery – Thai Sweet Chilli Glazed Salmon

October 24, 2017 at 9:07 am

Health & Training

You can look at recovery as management of inflammation. A little bit of it is good so that your body gets stronger, but too much of it and you will keep getting worse. There are some foods that are excellent at battling inflammation. Let’s look…

Recovery – How to Eat Right

October 3, 2017 at 7:58 am

Health & Training

Recovery is a very important thing for cycling performance. The best riders all have one thing in common, they can effectively recover from hard and long training sessions quickly. Maybe you don’t have the same genes as they do, but you you’ll have a faster…