An adequate balance between stress training and competition load other life demands and recovery is essential for athletes to achieve continuous high level performance research has focused on the examination of physiological and psychological recovery strategies to compensate external and internal training and competition loads. The relationship between recovery and fatigue and its impact on performance has attracted the interest of sports science for many years an adequate balance between stress training and competition. Recovery for performance in sport is divided into four parts each presenting scientific knowledge practical applications and related case studies the first two parts focus on the physiology of optimal training how to prevent overtraining and how to peak for optimal performance part iii is a discussion of current recovery modalities along . The recovery period is essential in maintaining athletes physical and psychological well being and crucial in the pursuit of intense physical training and satisfying performances recovery for performance in sport presents techniques and modalities currently used to enhance athletes recovery optimize training time and avoid overtraining