Abstract des Autors

Recovery is a vital part of any training programme whether it be speed and agility, strength and conditioning or a general fitness programme. Good recovery should always be a planned activity. lt will help muscles and connective tissues to repair faster allowing athletes to train harder and more effectively the next time. Recovery is basically the time it takes the body to repair itself from the damage (stress) caused by training. During recovery a complex process takes place which includes refuelling the muscle and liver glycogen stores (carbohydrates), replacing nutrients lost through sweat and developing new muscle proteins require for growth. Appropriate recovery is so important because: 1. it accelerate the regeneration rate between training and competitions; 2. it increases the quality and quantity of training; 3. it reduces the risk of developing over training; 4. it reduces the risk of injury; 5. it can enhance performance. Most athletes, coaches, and sport scientists are aware of the key role of recovery in lmproving performance in both training and competition, but very few are certain about the most suitable recovery strategies for their individual needs. Questions often asked are: 1. When should recovery start? 2. How long should it last? 3. Will the athletes recover every day in the same way and at the same time? Since there are no simple answers to these questions, the recovery modalities are often planned and designed following experiences based an a trial-and-error approach. As a consequence, athletes and their support teams use a range of recovery strategies to optimize and enhance sport performance and to avoid overtraining. Popular recovery interventions include: 1. Rest and sleep: Adequate rest and sleep is the most effective recovery tool. Sleep is where the physical and psychological restoration occurs through hormonal secretion and is critical in ensuring maximal recovery. The quantity and quality of sleep is also very important as in deeper sleep phases the body heals quicker. 2. Active recovery (cool-down after training); 3. stretching; 4. proper nutrition; 5. massage; 6. compression; 7. psychological means; 8. periodised training programme; 9. hydrotherapy (cold-water immersion, hotwater immersion and contrast water therapy). All these methods of recovery are dealt with to a greater or lesser extent in this bibliography, which does not concentrate on athletics alone but deals with sports in general. Although this is the first bibliography covering all aspects of recovery in NSA, there was a bibliography on stretching in NSA 1/1994) and a bibliography on aquajogging in NSA 2-3/1997. This bibliography includes 71 documents from the years 2000 to 2015 and is subdivided into three chapters: 1. books (3 documents); 2. theses and papers (3 documents); 3. journal articles (65 documents).