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Newsletter: The Best Recovery Strategy of All Time
It works wonders.
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This is the secret from the mountaintop.
AKA, the single best recovery strategy I’ve ever used.
You want a scholarship, right?
That takes a lot of physical effort.
Your body will be tired.
And you’ll need a way to recover effectively and efficiently.
Enter: a nerd named Ryan.
A guy named Ryan
I learned this secret from one of the smartest athletic trainers I’ve been around.
He’s the most jacked nerd of all time.
His name was Ryan.
Ryan explained this process to me like I was a 5-year old.
Here’s what he said.
5-Year Old Explanation
When you workout, you tear muscles.
To heal your muscles, your body sends a bunch of “recovery hormones and signals.” Basically, your body is a self-cleaning oven.
This is how your body naturally recovers.
Then Ryan realized…
What if you could activate recovery hormones without tearing muscles?
This would speed up the recovery process, BIG TIME.
And Ryan figured it out (because he’s a genius).
It’s called the activation lift.
The Activation Lift
The activation lift is a simple 10-15 minute workout.
Here are the rules:
Full body workout
3 muscle groups (whichever exercises you like most)
Legs
Back
Shoulders
2 sets of each, 10 reps
Use light weight. It should be easy to do 10 reps.
Ideally, you go as heavy as you can with it still being easy.
Hopefully that ^ makes sense.
The reason this works is because your body thinks the muscles will tear, so it sends the recovery hormones and signals.
But you’re not actually tearing any muscles.
It’s the best of both worlds.
Example
Let’s say you lift heavy on Monday, or have a tiring practice.
Instead of “resting” on Tuesday, do an activation lift.
You will recover faster than if you traditionally rested, doing nothing.
Even in the midst of a 160-game season, we’d lift every single day — but more than half of the lifts were activation lifts.
And the results were incredible.
Recover faster. Prevent soreness. Perform better.
The mountaintop guide,
Jack from D1 Scholarship
P.S. If you want the strongest legs in the league, try this 12-minute leg workout. It may look easy, but don’t be fooled. You’ll need an activation lift the next day.