About this episode

The episode discusses effective recovery strategies for ultrarunners with insights from guest Jordan Battaglia.

Recovery is one of the biggest performance tools ultrarunners overlook. In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Jordan Battaglia — co-founder and CEO of PlayOn — to talk about what recovery really looks like for endurance athletes. We get into the stuff that actually matters if you want to train hard, stay healthy, and perform at your best. Jordan shares lessons from his own injury experience, what most runners get wrong about recovery, and why things like sleep, nervous system regulation, warm-ups, strength training, and stress management matter way more than most people realize. We also get into why ibuprofen can be a dangerous trap for runners, simple recovery habits that actually move the needle, and some of the upgrades PlayOn has made to the product. This is a super practical episode with a ton of stuff you can apply right away. In this episode, we talk about: Why sleep is still the gold standard of recovery The nervous system piece most runners ignore What a proper warm-up should actually look like Why strength training helps ultrarunners stay healthy longer Foam rolling, massage guns, and soft tissue work The role of stress in injury, fatigue, and poor performance…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Corcione

Guest: Jordan Battaglia

Topics covered

• recovery
• ultrarunning
• endurance athletes
• performance
• injury prevention
• strength training
• stress management

Keywords

• recovery
• ultrarunner
• performance
• injury
• strength training
• sleep
• stress management
• warm-up
• foam rolling
• ibuprofen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PlayOn

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