Cooling Down After a Bicycle Race

Video Transcript

"Now you've just finished your first big race. What do you do now? Well you don't just get off your bike and go home. You want to be sure that you properly cool down your body. The best thing to do if you haven't been drinking or if you still feel thirsty, is to definitely have some more of your sports drink. Accelerate has a recovery drink call Endurox. There are other recovery drinks. It is important to replenish the carbs and the nutrients and the electrolytes and everything that you have burned out of your body, you really want to pay attention to your body after the race just as much as before. Replenish what your body has lost and then the other thing you want to do is cool your body down. Now I've shown you how you put your bike on the trainer. That is the best way to cool down. If you are in an area where you can hop on your bike and go for a ride for 10 to 15 minutes. That is really really important. You need to cool those muscles down, get rid of any lactic acid that could have built up and just keep your body where it is cooling down slowly. You don't want to just hop off and run. A lot of people like to do some really good stretches after the races. I personally like to cool down and then do some stretching and then once you've done that and replaced some of that nutrition you lost, you can go get your award. "