Recovery, Sleep, & Nutrition for Masters Athletes - #458

<div> <p>We discuss recovery for masters athletes, focusing on sleep and nutrition. Improve your sleep and nutrition, recover better, be stronger and healthier.</p> <p><a href="https://barbell-logic.com/team/jonathon-sullivan/">Dr. Jonathon Sullivan</a> and <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/team/noah-hayden/">Noah Hayden</a> continue their Barbell Health podcast series, this time discussing recovery for seniors. Ann Buszard joins them, discussing her journey and how she has approached recovery.</p> <p>You can check out more of Sully's work on the <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@GreySteel">Greysteel YouTube channel</a>.</p> <p>Check out the <a href= "https://barbell-logic.com/podcast/">Barbell Logic podcast landing page</a> for free resources, recent offers, & more.</p> <h3>Recovery for Masters Athletes</h3> <p>It's often said, but less often followed: you get stronger as you recover.</p> <p>You undergo stress, allow for recovery, which enables adaptation. This is the way.</p> <p>On a population-wide level, too few stress themselves adequately to begin with.</p> <p>For gym-goers, many if not most fail to organize stress and recovery intelligently. Because of this, they fail to meet their goals.</p> <p>Promoting adaptation requires attending to recovery. Recovery for masters athletes and all lifters mostly falls into the buckets of <a href="https://barbell-logic.com/nutrition-101/">nutrition</a> and sleep.</p> <p>The principles underlying recovery for seniors don't differ from younger athletes. Masters athletes may face some additional challenges, just as they do when the barbell prescription (the stress) is examined.</p> <h3>Nutrition for Masters Athletes</h3> <p>Often times, seniors do not eat as much. What they eat (especially protein) their body does not process as well as a younger athlete's body would.</p> <p>The importance of getting adequate protein, therefore, only increases. Many masters athletes will need protein supplementation (whey protein powder or something similar).</p> <p>Similar to how train