Think of active recovery as anything you can do without getting winded or fatiguing your muscles. Cross-training Cross-training lets you get the most bang for your workout buck. It means changing up the activity you do from workout to workout, so you are fatiguing different muscles during different workouts, Rivadeneyra says. For example, if you generally spend your workouts running, strength training or a boxing workout (even if performed at a high intensity) will stress your body in different ways. By allowing certain muscle groups to repair while others Winny Depot, cross-training helps promote overall muscle health while minimizing the amount of passive and active recovery days needed. Myofascial Release Myofascial release (sometimes called soft tissue therapy) includes massage and foam rolling, Winstrol Depot. Performed immediately before and after exercise, it may help decrease feelings of delayed onset muscle soreness while speeding muscle recovery, according to research published Winny Depot 2015 in Current Sports Medicine Reports.