Hey everybody it is CJ Johnson coming to you from beautiful Lake Tahoe
It's a little quiet but we're going to have a water skier go by here in just a
second . It's August morning so I'm sure we're going to get more company maybe as time goes
on.
I want to talk a little bit more about those three tips that I shared with you in terms
of recovery.
If you're an athlete your ability to recover between workouts definitely impacts your training
schedule as well as your body and your ability to do your sport.
If you're not an athlete that recovery is also essential just in terms of how you feel.
There’s really three things that you can do that will help to make that recovery better.
The first one is sleep
We're not going to talk a lot about sleep I have posted to another blog where I give
you some great tips please check it out on how to get more sleep.
But the question I want to ask yourself is this is are you getting enough sleep?
If you're 18 to 64 it is recommended that you get somewhere between seven to nine hours
of sleep.
When I am speaking and I ask that question of people less than a third of the room raised
their hand.
The second thing are baths.
I kind of fell into this one on accident.
I ski and I love to ski but I get really cold when I'm outside.
What I found myself doing when I got home from the ski hill is that make this nice warm
tub and I throw in some Epsom salts with a an essential oil I like lavender or I have
a blend called unwind that are really like.
That makes me feel great.
I throw those in the tub and I get into the tub and my body gets warm
Well not only did I find that my body was getting warm from that I found that my muscle
soreness was less than less and less.
So even in the summertime I've continued that habit of taking baths and using those up Epsom
salts with that warm water, Don't use hot water just warm water.
It really makes those muscles feel better and recover after a hard workout.
The last thing frankly I got to tell you this it's probably my most least favorite thing
is yoga.
Again I picked this up inside of ski season I did a little bit of stretching but more
as an athlete right a little bit before a little bit after.
I didn't really have stretching as part of my routine but the older I got and some of
the changes that I saw happening inside of my body I knew that it was time to add regular
stretching my routine.
Kind of came on accident.
At the ski area we have a yoga studio and sometimes the traffic especially on the weekends
is just horrific getting out.
Instead of sitting in traffic for what could be an hour I go over to the yoga studio and
take a yoga class to kill time.
What i found is I'm taking this yoga class it would really free up my muscles especially
for me my hips and my lower back which tend to pay a pretty big price when you're doing
skiing.
I felt great now and I got to be honest I don't really like the pace of yoga I'm kind
of a much more go at it go at it go ahead girl but by doing yoga and mobility and I
don't have to do it for an hour at a time you know half hour 45 minutes 15 minutes.
By adding stretching to my routine it's really helped me.
I hope that these 3 tips can help you in your recovery between workouts because again I
think it's essential for either your performance or how your body feels
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