The process of ‘Recovery’ is about putting nutrients back in to the body to facilitate the regeneration of your physiological systems, returning them to their normal level of homeostasis – to enable you to feel as good as you did before you exercised. For instance, serious athletes need to recover quickly so that they can train or race again as soon as possible. If you were taking part in a multi-day stage race or training camp for instance, it’s pretty obvious why you would want to recovery quickly after each stage – to stay fresh and ensure you achieve your best performances on each day. The side of recovery that is often not appreciated is how a well-oiled recovery process can facilitate adaptation and make you stronger – it’s key to the training process. We talk about this in more detail in the tab entitled Recovery Explained.
We launched the TORQ Recovery System back in 2012, so that our customers could look at the amount of training they were doing and phase their recovery treatment in accordance to the physical load they were undertaking. Since then, we have refined the system further and, if you do nothing more whilst on this page than watch the 4-minute video at the top of this page, you will have gained a very good idea of what the TORQ Recovery System is all about. Hopefully this will inspire you to explore further into this web page, where we cover the system in much deeper detail.
The TORQ Recovery System has been established so that we can recommend specific TORQ products and practices to our customers, depending on the amount of exercise they are doing. If exercise load is light, the use of specific recovery products may not be necessary at all, but as the load increases, more intervention is required. The TORQ Recovery System consists of 4 phases and is cumulative, so essentially the more exercise you are loading your physiological systems with, the more and greater variety of nutrition you will need to consume – and this includes real food (TORQ products are supplements, not dietary replacements). Below, we run through the 4 phases in brief and cover them in more detail further across the other tabs.
Phase 1 should be your first intervention and simply involves diligently following the TORQ Fuelling System. Fuelling properly in the first place reduces muscle breakdown, maintains hydration and prevents the degradation of muscle and liver glycogen. The benefits of fuelling properly are covered comprehensively in this video. Educational & Product Documentation Training Videos
Phase 2 involves the use of TORQ Recovery Drink within 15 minutes of exercise completion to rehydrate the tissues of the body, restock muscle and liver glycogen, repair damaged muscle fibres and recharge cellular energy levels.
Phase 3 is all about hunting for rich carbohydrate and protein sources within your diet. You should be doing this anyway, but as exercise load increases, your need for high quality nutrients increases. TORQ Energy Organic is a pure unflavoured source of carbohydrate. Dubbed the ‘invisible calorie’, it represents the ideal way to increase the carbohydrate content of regular foods easily and because it has no flavour, you’ll hardly know it’s there. The TORQ SNAQ range has also been developed to assist in supporting Phase 3 of the TORQ Recovery System too.