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If you’re lucky, if and when you crash you’ll walk away with little more than a bruised ego... but more often than not you can throw in broken bones, torn ligaments and shiny new crutches.
Motorcycle racers are well known for being a tough breed, bouncing back from injury in somewhat superhuman style, but what exactly are they doing to facilitate such a speedy recovery?
Aside from the usual hyperbaric chambers and red light therapies, there are a lot of additional things a rider can do to accelerate the healing process.
Here are my top three.
1. Diet
Injury can be pretty costly when it comes to daily energy expenditure – sure, you’re probably not moving around as much, but an injury can increase resting metabolic rate by anything up to 20% depending on the severity of the trauma sustained.
Although you’re not burning as many calories from daily activities and exercise, your metabolism has likely received a hefty boost and therefore needs feeding.
This story is from the August 2023 edition of Fast Bikes UK.
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