What are the techniques for efficient recovery and how does it boost our performance?

We know that we tend to perform our best after we take good sleep at night. Despite this, it often gets too tempting for us to sacrifice some sleep and study all night instead.

Inadequate rest causes inefficiency, imprecise thinking, and repetition. Why? This is because our mind cannot concentrate on a single thing for a very long time. After taking an ample amount of rest, it works better and has a powerful concentration. If we can clear our heads in the break, it performs better upon returning.

Efficient performers can make a better recovery in a short period even if the break is a minute long. In Orlando, the “Human Performance Institute (HPI)” discovered that being able to train oneself for relaxing in a short time of idleness is a pivotal factor in the progress of becoming a leading performer.

So, what’s the best way to practice the recoveries? One way to do this is to do the cardiovascular training in intervals. This means performing a series of high-intensity short workouts with constant rests at regular intervals. HPI also discovered the physiological connection that is between the ability to release stress and mental exhaustion and cardiovascular training.

This could also be practiced on motionless bikes. Start with riding with higher resistance that will shoot our heart rate. Then slowing down for one minute on a lower resistance would lower the heart rate. Then dash again until the time heart rate shoots. Then slow down and repeat the process.

If we do this on regular basis, the longer it is going to take to raise the heart rate and quicker to come down. With such training, we can have better endurance, and help us to relax better when we need it.