GMB Fitness

exercise for active recovery

Recovery:
Less Soreness, Faster Progress

It can feel nice to be a little sore after training. But not if you’re too stiff and tired to enjoy life and show up fully for your next session.

That’s why we made our Recovery program.

Learn Our Favorite Movements to Loosen Up and Recuperate Quickly with GMB Recovery

GMB Recovery Program
☺️ Relieve Muscle Soreness
🛌 Relax for Deeper Sleep
🔓 Release Stiff, Tight Areas

…in just 15 or 30 minutes, between workouts.

$39 – Get Recovery

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Recovery is also available as part of the Regulator bundle.

here’s how it works

It’s not your workouts that make you stronger. It’s actually the time between training sessions when your body adapts to that strain and builds greater capacity for next time. Here’s how intentional active recovery can accelerate that adaptation:

Gently Mobilize Tight Muscles

  • Release tension with slow, low-intensity stretches
  • Relax into extended ranges to lengthen muscles
  • Gently shake out tension with vibration exercises

Move Your Joints to Promote Recovery

  • Move your hips’ and shoulders’ full ranges of motion
  • Increase blood flow to with coordinated movements
  • Counter lactic acid buildup to reduce soreness

Down-Regulate Nervous System Tension

  • Reset sympathetic nervous system arousal
  • Activate parasympathetic recovery functions
  • Practice awareness for nerve stimulation

Here’s the gist of how we approach active recovery:

This is just an example of the kinds of breathing techniques and practices you’ll learn in Recovery, but we’re showing you this so you can get a sense of how we teach this material.

In short, we favor slow, gentle movement of your major joints and muscles throughout their full ranges of motion.

Over may years of practice and teaching, we’ve tried just about every recovery hack, supplements, and gadget on the market, and while some of them work better than others, we’ve found you can get 90% of the benefits without having to spend the money.

We’re offering all our “secrets” for less than most companies will sell you a foam roller.

It’s up to you which one you think is the better value 😉

We built Recovery inside Praxis – our custom training software – for flexibility and convenience:

  • 34 training sessions you can repeat as often as you like.
  • 15 and 30-minute options to best fit your schedule.
  • All your scheduling, timekeeping, and tracking are built in.
  • Detailed instruction and exercise tutorials you can review anytime.

 
I used Recovery today 1st thing as I didn’t feel enough zip for a daily battery and yet I need to start my day with some movement. I was hoping to encourage my body to feel in recovery mode, and like magic, 15 minutes later I feel better than I did at the beginning.
 

Recover Faster Without Feeling Stiff

We made this program to offer a flexible, reliable active recovery practice so you can always be ready for to make progress at your next workout.

$39 – Get Recovery

…or grab it as part of Regulator

Recovery fits any schedule, and it’s yours for life, so you can go at your own pace and revisit it as many times as you want.

Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve also taken the liberty of including the answers here, since the questions aren’t very enlightening on their own 😉

Always Updated
We regularly update all of our programs based on client feedback and new things we’ve learned.

Lifetime Access
You’ll never lose access to your programs. If you have to take time off, pick right back up where you started.

Brilliant Support
If you ever get stuck or need help, you can send a message and get expert support from our coaches.

How is this different from Elements and the other GMB programs?

Recovery was designed as a complement to our core curriculum of training program, each of which has its own purpose and focus.

Elements, Integral Strength, and Sequences are well-rounded programs that can work either as your primary training or in addition to a sport or gym routine. Mobility was intended to be used alongside other training to increase range of motion without slowing recovery from your main workouts.

Recovery works best as an add-on practice to mobility stiff muscles and relax your nervous system between workouts. While Elements and Mobility can also be used as low-intensity training, Recovery is focused entirely on that purpose.

It won’t build muscle. It’s not gonna burn extra fat or teach you how to do a handstand.

It will accelerate your recovery and help you make faster progress in your primary training activities.

Do I have to have done Elements first?

No, you don’t have to do anything.

Though Recovery works great alongside any of our other programs, it’s self-contained and fits into whatever routines you happen to be following.

Will Recovery completely eliminate sore muscles?

When you integrate this practice into your regular routine, you’ll be gently stretching the key areas that tend to get stiff after a workout. You’ll also reduce the elevated tension in your nervous system that follows intense activities.

Lower stress and reduced soreness will make it easier to get through the days after a tough workout, but soreness is a fact of life, and some people get more sore than others. Usually, that soreness doesn’t indicate injury, and it certainly doesn’t mean you can’t train. It just makes that training suck a little bit more than it has to 😉

Downregulating your CNS can also improve sleep and speed muscle recovery, which will lead to less pain and tension as well.

How much space do I need?

Recovery doesn’t require much space at all. Just enough room to sit, stand, lie down on the floor is enough.

Do I need any kind of special equipment?

Nope!

Just a bit of floor. Maybe a chair or wall to help balance while you’re learning certain movements.

Can Recovery help rehabilitate prior injuries?

That’s pretty tricky to guess at, since the nature of individual injuries is going to be case-by-case. Normally, we’d just say “email us and ask,” but the truth is that Recovery is designed for recuperation, not for rehabilitation. That may seem like a fine semantic line, but the gist is the Recovery will help relieve tension and stress but not injury.

Recovery – and any other training we’re able to offer – is not a replacement for medical care.

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What would it mean for you to approach each workout without worrying about soreness the next day?

Choose Recovery

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