Ep40: Aidan O'Flaherty - How to Improve Your Recovery
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Recovery is key. Not only for injury prevention, but to adapt to our training, get fitter and improve performance. So how can we recover better? What are the most effective tools and how do we know when to rest, do a recovery run, or crack on with hard a workout? Aidan O'Flaherty, aka The Irish Physio is back on the 5 Miles Easy sofa to answer all of our running recovery questions, delving into sleep, nutrition, and other common recovery tools like compression, heat and ice. Aidan shares tonnes of top tips on how to make small changes to our daily routines which can help boost our recovery and performance gains. Follow Aidan: @theirishphysio If you're enjoying our conversations, please do us a big favour and leave us a rating on Spotify/Apple. You can also check out our YouTube channel @5MilesEasy. Thanks to our sponsors of this episode: ENERTOR: The revolutionary running insole that absorbs 51% of the force of each foot strike. Designed for and with elite runners, Enertors not only protect you from injury but also boost your energy return, helping you run faster for longer, pain-free. Want to experience the Enertor difference? Try them out risk-free on their website with their 60-day money-back guarantee. And for our lucky listeners, you can get 15%  off, using the code “5MILESEASY” at checkout.  VELOFORTE: If you’re looking for a natural way to fuel your training with real ingredients, no artificial nasties and no compromise on taste, Veloforte is for you. Veloforte has an incredible range of kitchen crafted bars, shakes and chews to power your performance and provide an optimal balance of essential ingredients to look after your overall wellness. Head to veloforte.com to check out the full range and use code 5MILES for 30% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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