22 August 2026 · 2 min read

Which recovery therapy should you book after the gym?

Five therapies, one honest guide. What to book for heavy legs, a hard session, a long week, or an injury you are still carrying.

The lounge at Renew, with arched alcoves and soft daylight

Five therapies in one building sounds like choice until you are standing in front of the booking page trying to pick one. Here is the short version, sorted by what is actually wrong with you.

Your legs feel heavy and full

Not sore. Full, like they are carrying more than they should be. That is fluid, usually from a long day on your feet, a hard session, or a flight.

Book compression. Thirty minutes with the sleeves on your legs and you get up lighter. It is the fastest, most obvious result of anything here, and it is $45.

You are sore two days after a hard session

Classic delayed onset muscle soreness. It peaks somewhere around 48 hours and it is the thing most recovery research is actually about.

Book contrast therapy. The 2013 review that pooled eighteen trials found alternating hot and cold beat resting for soreness out to three days. Add compression afterwards if you have time.

Something specific has been tight for months

A shoulder, a hip, a spot in your back that has been there long enough that you have stopped mentioning it.

Book a deep tissue or sports massage. This is the one case where hands beat machines, because the problem is specific and somebody needs to find it. Sixty minutes for one region, ninety if it is more than one.

You are wrecked but nothing specifically hurts

Bad week, bad sleep, everything slightly harder than it should be.

Book PEMF. Thirty minutes lying down fully clothed. It calms the nervous system, most people doze off, and there is nothing to brace for. If sleep is the problem, this is the one people report back about.

You have no downtime and you are going back to work

Lunch break, or straight back to a desk afterwards.

Book red light or PEMF. No heat, no cold, no shower, no togs, nothing to recover from. Twenty minutes of red light is the easiest thing in the building to fit into a day.

You are training through something and want to keep going

A block that is not finished, an event coming, and a body that is starting to complain.

Book the Post-Training Reset, which is PEMF and compression across an hour for $95. Both lying down, neither one asking anything of you, and it is the pairing that suits a body that is already tired.

If you want the whole thing

The Renew Stack is contrast therapy, PEMF, compression and red light across one two hour visit for $170. Each one picks up where the last left off: heat and cold get circulation going, red light and PEMF ask nothing of you in between, and compression clears everything through at the end.

The order is not decoration. Heat before massage, compression last, and the two no-downtime therapies wherever they fit.

The honest answer

Most people who try all of it end up with a favourite that is not the one they expected, and they book that one weekly. Working out which is why the Experience Pass exists: two weeks of everything for $160, one per client.

Or look at the prices and book the one that matched your symptom above.

Everything here is bookable at 1 Tennis Lane, Parnell. Two weeks of all of it is $160 if you would rather try before you decide.