Fatigue Management: Recovery While Moving

Have you ever finished a set of Sandbag Lunges or Burpee Broad Jumps and felt your legs become heavy while your heart rate shoots through the roof? Most people choose to walk and wait for their body to recover before pushing again. What if you could recover while still moving? This is where Active Recovery and Fatigue Management come in. That’s a skill. Of course, like any other skill, it can be trained. Relying on your aerobic system, your body can better manage fatigue, restore balance, and recycle lactate as a usable fuel source while you’re still moving.

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Here’s a strategy for the next 1 km to manage fatigue and clear lactate:

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0-200m: Focus on movement quality, not speed.

– Take shorter strides

– Increase your cadence

–  Exhale fully

– Stay relaxed

 

200-800m: Let your aerobic system do the work.

– Breathe deeply and consistently

– Control your heart rate

– Let your body recover

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800-1000m: Prepare for the next challenge.

– Gradually increase your pace

– Get ready for the next station

– Maintain movement quality

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The next major question is: how do you train this?

By practicing race-specific scenarios.

Run → Heavy Station → Run.

The more familiar your body becomes with recovering under fatigue, the better you’ll perform on race day. Because race performance isn’t determined by how fast you start. It’s determined by how quickly you recover and go again.

That’s what we train in the 𝐎𝐂𝐑 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞.