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Stop overthinking your recovery. @les7spellman has coached and tracked recovery in hundreds of athletes who have access to the most expensive recovery tools. What keeps showing up isn't glamorous: sleep a lot, eat pretty well, hydrate, do some low-level work, get sunlight early. The two biggest levers he names are early sunlight and consistent bedtimes. That second one is tough in pro sport, where travel, practice and late starts put the schedule all over the place. Les and his team circle the late games and the long flights in advance and builds plan B: eye mask on the plane, earbuds in with no music just to block the noise, magnesium timed right, sleep. What surprised him was how deeply the players bought in. As one of them put it, in college he was doing the light bed every week, and he feels better now than he did then. If a consistent bedtime can out-recover a six-figure machine, you probably don't have a tools problem.