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LAB RAT WAS MID-SQUAT when I realized I had
lost control. I had reached that split sec-
One Man, I start to sound Mayday! Mayday! and
ond of panic when the internal alarms

unless you can recruit enough strength to
13 Recovery Products, power through, the lift will fall apart. Aided
by a grunting I can only describe as feral, I
was able to rerack the bar.
As I crumpled on the bench of my home
4 Weeks of “Healing” gym, my eyes went to the portal-shaped watch

on my wrist. I flipped through the settings on
the GARMIN FĒNIX 5 [1] for the data I want-
Can you buy your way to less soreness, quicker muscle
ed. My VO2 max had pushed into the purple
growth, and more energy? An entire industry of new
“superior” section of the device’s colored spec-
recovery products wants you to believe so. Fitness-obsessed trum and, on the next screen, my recommend-
CHRIS MOHR, Ph.D., R.D., spent one month testing ed recovery time until my next workout had
gear aimed at maximizing recovery. This is what he learned. clicked over from one day to two. I’d achieved
my goal: to push myself hard enough to have
my Fēnix bestow upon me another rest day.

28 December 2019 / MEN’S HEALTH ILLUSTRATION BY ZOHAR LAZAR