Authored by Christie Aschwanden
Christie Aschwanden and Bill Ringle discuss what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview
- How overworking can reduce your effectiveness as an athlete or a business leader.
- The similarities between overtraining and overworking.
- The importance of scheduling time to decompress and recover between work activities.
Show Notes
- Christie Aschwanden tells who her inspirations are. [0:48]
- Christie shares how her one decision in high school helped foster her interest in science and medicine. [2:23]
- “How do we define recovery? What do we mean by this, and how do we measure it?” [4:53]
- Christie shares in her experience how business leaders who compete as athletes, cyclists, etc. outside of the work area struggle in the areas of recovery. [7:14]
- What do Christie do as a writer to build cyclical recovery and keep yourself performing well? [10:26]
- Unfamiliar food can be risky for athletes, but sometimes it can be really helpful in the last-minute preparations; for reference Usain Bolt in the 2008 Olympics. [12:30]
- Christie recommends finding some sort of daily ritual or things you can do to manage and handle your stress instead of eliminating them. [17:21]
- 4:1 carb to protein ratio for effective recovery. What are its implications, and how do we choose to eat things after exercise? [18:00]
- Christie shares the story behind the fight to ban peanut butter and jelly from the garden state warriors locker room. [20:46]
- Lightning Round. [21:28]
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Expert Bio
Christie Aschwanden is the author of GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of EMERGING FORM, a podcast about the creative process.
She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post. Christie is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She’s also been a contributing editor for Runner’s World and a contributing writer for Bicycling.
Her work appears in dozens of publications, including Discover, Slate, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, More, Men’s Journal, Mother Jones, NPR.org, Smithsonian, and The Oprah Magazine.
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Contact Info for Christie Aschwanden
Web address: www.christieaschwanden.com
Travels from: Cedaredge, CO
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