And in many cases, recovery technologies that are allegedly science-based don’t live up to the claims made by their endorsers. A dismaying number of them are funded by industry. Many of today’s recovery modalities, she finds, are based on tiny studies that are not necessarily replicable or representative of the outcomes most athletes should expect.
Christie Aschwanden has written a book (Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery) in order to tackle this question. It’s the next frontier of the fitness industry but is it legitimate. This has led to a proliferation of companies offering recovery products and services. Work-outs have gotten harder, which has made recovery crucial.
