Nancy Arnold discusses how she manages recovery between workout on low calories.
Bodybuilding | Bodybuilding 2006 | Contest Preparation | Diet
This third conversation in our series took place with Nancy on April 3, 2006, twenty-six days before her competition date. Here, I ask her about what recovery after workouts is like as she diets to lose as much subcutaneous body fat as possible before the competition. As anybody who lifts weights intensively knows, recovery is very dependent on nutrition. This dependency only becomes more pronounced as lifting intensity increases and caloric intake decreases. It is one of the central challenges of competing in bodybuilding, a sort of separator for those who can and cannot do it. Nancy discusses her strategies for recovering on low calories, including gutamine supplementation and massage.
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Additional Links
- Bodybuilding.com provides an informative article on the use of massage to aid recovery. Touted benefits are improved circulation and removal of toxins from the muscle.
- This article explains why carb depletion, a key part of Nancy's current training regimen, slows recovery.
- This article discusses protein supplementation tips to aid recovery when athletes are at a negative energy balance (taking in fewer calories than they expend).
