Recovery
Sleep and Recovery Fundamentals
Sleep duration and timing, training load management, and an honest read of the evidence tiers behind popular recovery modalities.
7 min read · Published 15 Aug 2026
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Recovery
Adaptation happens between sessions. Recovery is the part of the protocol most people optimise last and should optimise first.
Sleep is the highest-leverage recovery input by a wide margin, and it is free. Everything else — modalities, devices, protocols — is a rounding error next to consistent sleep and sane training load.
Where popular recovery modalities are covered, we state the evidence tier plainly rather than implying benefits that have not been demonstrated in humans.