Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

'The most important book about training you'll read this year.'
Alex Hutchinson, acclaimed author of Endure

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, studies show 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, from ice baths and cryogenic freezing chambers, to 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.