Recovery is key. Not only for injury prevention, but to adapt to our training, get fitter and improve performance. So how can we recover better? What are the most effective tools and how do we know when to rest, do a recovery run, or crack on with hard a workout?

Aidan O'Flaherty, aka The Irish Physio is back on the 5 Miles Easy sofa to answer all of our running recovery questions, delving into sleep, nutrition, and other common recovery tools like compression, heat and ice. Aidan shares tonnes of top tips on how to make small changes to our daily routines which can help boost our recovery and performance gains.

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