QUESTIONS
Questions about
human adaptation.
What connects reserve and resilience? What can a recovery measure tell us? Explore the relationships, the evidence and the questions still open.
Follow a question.
EXPLANATIONS & EVIDENCEHow Are Physiological Reserve and Resilience Related?
Reserve can support resilience. Understanding the connection means separating available capacity from the response to a particular challenge.
Are Recovery and Resilience the Same Thing?
Recovery describes a process of change. Resilience concerns the capacity to meet a disturbance. Following a response helps connect the two.
Does Recovery Always Mean Returning to the Same Baseline?
A baseline gives us a reference for change. What counts as recovery depends on the function, the time frame and the outcome we are trying to understand.
Why Is Rest Not the Same as Recovery?
Stopping an activity creates an opportunity to recover. Whether recovery occurs depends on what changes in feeling, function or performance.
Can HRV Tell Us How Well We Have Recovered?
HRV can inform a recovery question when the metric, recording conditions and comparison are clear. One reading cannot summarize whole-body recovery.
Is Feeling Recovered the Same as Recovering Function?
Feeling better is a meaningful outcome. Sleep and work-recovery research show why it does not answer every question about function.