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Good to Go
- How to Eat, Sleep and Rest Like a Champion
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
The New York Times best-selling account of the new frontier of sports recovery science, which shows what we should and shouldn't be doing between exercising to achieve maximum performance.
All athletes, from Olympians to weekend warriors, must find the balance between training and recovery to maximize the benefits of workouts and reach optimal performance. For the longest time, coaches and training manuals have emphasized training above all else. However, science shows that recovery is a crucial component of exercise training and it may even be the most important one.
Good to Go is the first definitive account of this new frontier in sports and exercise science. Christie Ashwanden takes you on a first-person tour through the science of exercise recovery, from ice baths and cryogenic freezing chambers to the science behind Usain Bolt’s love of chicken nuggets and Tom Brady’s recovery pyjamas.Full of eye-opening revelations, Aschwanden takes us on an invigorating journey through the science and potions of sports recovery and debunks the junk to give a clear picture of what we should actually be doing to achieve peak performance.
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"Christie Aschwanden is simply one of the best science writers in the world. Whether you’re striving for a personal best or simply wondering about that post-workout beer, Good to Go is the definitive tour through a bewildering jungle of scientific (and pseudo-scientific) claims that comprise a multi-billion dollar recovery industry." (David Epstein, best-selling author of The Sports Gene)
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- Christopher R.
- 14-02-20
not endure
it's ok. but if you've read endure by Alex Hutchison you'll be disappointed. it is just thinner and less well researched
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- Dougie Nisbet
- 08-05-19
Easy listen - no huge surprises
The format is becoming a little familiar to me now. Perhaps it's more of an indication of the sort of books I listen to than a judgement on the genre. A sceptical but neutral view of recovery techniques. It reminds me of Matt Fitzgerald's Diet Cults, Bounce by Matthew Syed, and to a lesser extent, Adapt by Tim Harford. Lots of anectode and real-life examples, which in Good to Go, often began with a pithy quote, then attributed to a particular athlete. The sort of thing you'd get in a newspaper headline and I found it a bit tiresome at times.
Overall an upbeat book and useful book.
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- 02-08-20
Valid information but a tad contradictory at times
Very well read but the headline is misleading and should instead be something like 'debunking popular recovery myths'. Also, the author appears to criticise research when it suits, but never really questions the validity of research that demonstrates her point. In truth, I believe the author has done their homework and she is correct in her comments but it could easily be misleading.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-02-23
Thoroughly enjoyed.
Lots of simple protocols for all levels of athletes to implement to aid recovery. A very useful and enjoyable book.
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- David J. Ickringill
- 05-08-23
All hyperbole no substance
Save your time and book credits, give this one a miss. Shoots down just about everything and no substance to the claims.
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- Dimitar Mihaylov
- 11-06-19
A bit waste of time.
don't waste your time and money with this book. they reject every theory and don't recommend anything.
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