Practice

Cold shower

Finish the shower cold for the wake-up. It won't stop you getting ill.

Focus · Practice · members

Heat acclimation

Train in the heat before a hot race. The sauna afterwards won't do the same job.

Strength · Practice · members

Hot bath

Run ten hot baths in two weeks and check your fasting glucose after.

Vitality · Practice · members

Steam room

Use the steam room to relax. Take the health claims to the dry sauna.

Vitality · Practice · members

Infrared sauna

Use it to relax. Don't count it as a workout.

Vitality · Practice · members

Finnish dry sauna

Sauna 4 to 7 times a week and stay in past 19 minutes, or it barely counts.

Vitality · Practice · members

Uberman / Everyman polyphasic schedules

Sleep the night in one block. Drop the nap schedule.

Recovery · Practice · members

NSDR / yoga nidra

Run it free off your phone. Don't buy the app, don't drop real treatment.

Recovery · Practice · members

The caffeine nap

Drink the coffee, then nap twenty minutes. In that order.

Recovery · Practice · members

The short 'power nap'

Nap 10 minutes, not 30. Set the alarm before you lie down.

Recovery · Practice · members

Active cooling mattress pads

Cool the room first. Nobody's tested the pad against an open window.

Recovery · Practice · members

Mattress selection

Buy medium-firm, buy it returnable, and stop paying for anything above that.

Recovery · Practice · members