5 Yoga Stretches For People Who Sit All Day - Swolverine

5 Yoga Stretches For People Who Sit All Day

By regularly practicing these 5 yoga-inspired stretches for people who sit all day, you can begin to see improvements in your tightness, especially in the shoulders and back, making sitting at work all day a little more enjoyable. Together, they can counteract the compression from sitting all day, lengthening the spine, creating space in the back body, and strengthening your core.
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Overtraining Signs And Symptoms - Swolverine

Overtraining: How To Prevent Overtraining And Improve Performance

More is better, right? Well not always. When it comes to your performance and training, your body needs ample rest and recovery, to adequately build and rebuild lean muscle mass, and to perform at an elite level. Volume, or your workout load, is a critical factor in reaching your body composition and performance goals. Often times, the more you work out and train, the better outcomes you’ll have. But, as with most things, there is a definite point of diminishing returns.
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Best Recovery Methods For Athletes - Swolverine

The Ultimate Guide To The Best Recovery Methods For Athletes

As an elite athlete, there are dozens of recovery methods, techniques, and tools that you can utilize, in order to keep you at the top of your game day after day. But the problem, is knowing which tools to use, and when to use them. With so many different options, it can be difficult and overwhelming. This ultimate guide will help you pick and choose which recovery methods to use, at what stage of training, in order to maximize your athletic performance by effectively minimizing your recovery time.
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Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): How To Treat Muscle Soreness And Inflammation

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): How To Treat Muscle Soreness And Inflammation

We’ve all been there; sore to the point that we can barely move. When it hurts so bad, you can’t even raise your arms because your shoulders and chest feel like someone beat the shit out of you with a pillowcase full of bars of soap. Or what about the days when you can’t even walk straight because you decided to throw some extra plates onto your deadlift the day before. What you’re experiencing is called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), which unsympathetically decides to ruin your day typically 12-48 hours’ post-workout.
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6 Amazing Reasons Why Foam Rolling Is Good For Recovery

6 Amazing Reasons Why Foam Rolling Is Good For Recovery

It hurts so good. I’m talking of course, about foam rolling. You know, that studded little power strip of foam. Or as I like to call it, the pain enforcer. Foam rollers are used to assist in myofascial release, after a grueling WOD, long distance run, or gripping power lifting session. The reason we foam roll, or neglect to foam roll, is to not only make us cringe, but to both help you warm up and recover faster after a gut-wrenching workout. So what are we going to do? By now, you probably know that Swolverine is an evidence-based company. So, let’s see what the studies say about the proper uses and benefits of foam rolling to help us get back out on the floor to hammer out more thrusters.
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Do BCAAs Really Work? What do BCAAs do?

The Ultimate Guide To BCAA Supplements - Benefits, Uses, Side Effects

Often times we put up with muscle soreness and bear with the pain. But what if there was something that could help you recover faster? There is, and they’re called BCAAs. BCAAs are one of the most popular and effective supplements on the market. Research suggests, that BCAAs have a positive impact on promoting muscle growth and helping to reduce muscle soreness. 
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Does Cryotherapy Work For Post-Workout Muscle Recovery?

Does Cryotherapy Work For Post-Workout Muscle Recovery?

When you’re competing at an elite level, optimizing every aspect of your performance, can make the difference between winning and getting knocked from the leaderboard. Cryotherapy has become one of the latest trends in fitness and health amongst elite level athletes due to it’s many proposed health benefits on muscle recovery. If you can recover faster, reduce muscle soreness, and improve joint mobility, you’re going to perform better. It’s as simple as that. But, is cryotherapy all that it’s cracked up to be?
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Benefits of Graston Technique

How Graston Technique Can Improve Your Recovery & Performance

It’s no secret, that CrossFit is a physical demanding sport. With constantly varied movements, that require efficient range of motion, agility, strength, and mobility, optimizing your recovery through effective techniques and physical therapy is crucial for your performance. Graston technique, is an effective treatment option to help keep your range of motion, and mobility on point, so that you continue crushing your WODs. 
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6 Ways To Spend Your Active Rest Day

6 Ways To Spend Your Active Rest Day

Active Rest Days are a lot more necessary than you may think. We’ve got 6 ways to spend your active rest day so that you can still feel productive and on track towards your fitness and health goals.
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