Recovery Index: See How Fast an Athlete Recovers & At What Intensity

Introducing the Recovery Index, the key to understanding an athlete's ability to recover from high lactate values.

Recovering from high lactate is crucial in many sports. It goes hand in hand with eliminating acidosis, replenishing creatine phosphate stores and reducing post-exercise oxygen consumption. Why does this matter? Because the ability to recover quickly allows for better performance in repeated efforts, essential in team sports, cycling, interval training and more.

The Recovery Index provides you with one single metric that makes the ability to recover from lactate comparable between athletes, and even across different sports. It shows you both how fast an athlete can recover and at which intensity, all at a glance.

It combines the speed of lactate recovery, the highest point in the lactate recovery curve, with the intensity at which this peak occurs. Importantly, the intensity is related to energy demand, not just speed or power. This makes the Recovery Index independent of the sport, allowing comparisons between a runner and a cyclist, or between a freestyle and a butterfly swimmer.

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