Science of Recovery with Christie Aschwanden

Science of Recovery with Christie Aschwanden

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6:00pm - 7:00pm

Bookworm of Edwards
295 Main St. C101
Edwards, CO 81632

Learn all about the best way to recover from you training from the expert! Christie Aschwanden spent more than a year investigating the science of exercise recovery, and Good To Go, her newest work, explains what she learned. One, that science is hard, and sports science is especially so. Two, that a lot of the recovery products and services had only flimsy science to back them. Finally, she discovered that recovery really is the big deal it’s made out to be, but we’ve made it far more complicated than necessary.

In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves, foam rollers, electrical muscle stimulators, and sleep trackers.

In Good to Go, acclaimed science writer Christie Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance; she examines the latest trends among athletes, from NFL star Tom Brady’s infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles’ pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps’s “cupping” ritual; and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself, including cryochambers, float tanks, and infrared saunas.

At a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: Do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance?

Christie Aschwanden is the author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of EMERGING FORM, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington PostChristie is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She’s also been a contributing editor for Runner’s World and a contributing writer for BicyclingHer work appears in dozens of publications, including DiscoverSlateConsumer Reports,  New Scientist,  More,  Men’s JournalMother Jones, NPR.org, Smithsonian and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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