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Most remain reactive and athlete-centred, leaving the full complexity of competitive fatigue inadequately addressed and the equivalent recovery demands on coaching and performance staff entirely unrecognised. No structural framework currently places initiative-taking, calendar-embedded multidimensional recovery as a deliberate component of seasonal planning. Main body. We introduce\n                    <jats:italic>micro-recovery dosing<\/jats:italic>\n                    (MRD): proactively planned, pre-scheduled 36-hour multidimensional recovery periods embedded within the competitive season as a proposed starting point at five to eight instances per year, extending to all members of the high-performance organisation. Drawing on neuromuscular recovery kinetics, autonomic science, sleep architecture research, occupational recovery psychology, and complex systems theory, we construct a convergent theoretical rationale for the proposed parameters and distinguish MRD from related constructs. We present a role-differentiated implementation framework with supporting evidence and a discussion of emerging AI-driven monitoring tools. Conclusions. Taken together, the four-domain convergent rationale and the complex systems perspective provide a theoretically coherent basis for MRD\u2019s proposed structure. We argue for a specific organisational transformation: the shift from recovery as an incidental gap between performance demands to an intentionally designed recovery architecture that encompasses athletes and staff alike. 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