Recover Athletics

I’m in my late 50’s started running a year and a half ago. Started slow with waking, to walk run alternating, to all runs. Progressed in distance no more than 10% a week. Tried lots of things for knee pain. Better shoes, yoga, longer intervals between runs, a variety of warm ups and cool downs, running coach, strengthening exercises, running on grass, running on trails, and beaches. Still hurt. I have been using the app now for a month. Just finished 4.5 miles PB time. No pain. 😆Great value, short easy to follow videos. Video format talking only at the beginning then silent. You can watch the video without annoying repetitive narration. Videos continue until you are done. No need to start over. Helps in perfecting form.

I’ve had this app for a week and I’ll admit it’s going to take discipline to follow it every day. 1/2 the time I run with a group and meet them 15-20 minutes from where I live so it’s hard to do a warm up before I leave and I’m not going to lie on the cold parking lot asphalt to do it before we start running. Same goes for some of the stretches afterwards and by the time I get home I’m cold and done. One thing I would like to see instead of doing all the sets of the exercises at one time. The app should repeat the sets until you’re finished with the work out. The first time I did it I thought that’s what it did and then I had to start over when I realized it didn’t. A couple of things I haven’t figured out is: 1. I’m 50+ different days different parts of my body hurt worse and there is no way to rate the areas that are tighter than others and I can’t figure out how to change my focus points by starting over with the assessment, I thought when I purchased the premium it would let me but haven’t figured it out. 2. How to share workouts with family members. My son is training for his first 1/2 and I’d like to share custom workouts I created with him. Otherwise, I like the versatility of it.

Recover Athletics Running app is a way overdue evidence-based tool for runners. As a lifetime serious recreational runner and now triathlete, I have been waiting for something like this for years. The arduous task of obtaining a primary doc referral, scheduling and attending an initial PT appointment only to be handed a wordy description of what exercises/stretches my latest injury requires (sometimes with stick figure diagrams if I’m fortunate), I often feel like the experience of transferring meaningful recovery information could be more user-friendly. When I stumbled upon the Recovery Athletics Running app with the short, clear, and sharp videos specific to the injury I was ecstatic. This app is way overdue and greatly appreciated by this runner. The fact that the exercises and stretches are evidence-based from a highly credible pool of medical and PT professionals makes it a home run.