Christie Aschwanden

Christie Aschwanden is an American science journalist and author. She is a former lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Discover and numerous other publications. She specialises in sports science, health and the evaluation of scientific evidence. Good to Go examines the science — and pseudoscience — of athletic recovery, investigating whether the products, techniques and rituals that athletes use to recover actually work. From ice baths and compression garments to foam rolling and cryotherapy, Aschwanden puts recovery science under rigorous scrutiny, separating what the evidence supports from what is pure marketing. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Good to Go offers fascinating listening and reading for athletes, fitness enthusiasts and anyone who wants to understand what actually works when it comes to recovery — and what's just expensive placebo.