Endurance sport coaches prescribe activity for athletes. We're trying to improve bodies and maximize the economy of them by varying degrees in endurance events. This is a big deal, we don't take it lightly. For this reason we have an evidenced based approach that governs everything we we do. This includes recovery which is one of our six pillars of performance. This passage aims to help athletes make sense of the claims that are made to have proposed silver bullets that recover athletes faster. What really works as it pertains to recovery?

The questions we have to start with are, 1) what do we actually mean by recovery and 2) what does the preponderance of empirical evidence demonstrate and reveal to us? Answering the latter first may prove helpful in this passage. Let's provide examples of what's NOT an example of good evidence. When people say "I tried "X" and it felt great, I know with certainty that it worked on me." Another example that I hear, generally on social media is, ...