Recovery is an important factor in improving the performance of athletes. To restore the physical performance of athletes specializing in judo, it is necessary to use special methods and means that activate the recovery processes in their body. Among the various recovery strategies, methods of physical rehabilitation attracted our attention. Purpose: evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic gymnastics using isometric exercises and post-isometric relaxation in restoring the physical performance of judo athletes. Material and methods of research. The achievement of the goal envisaged solving the set tasks using a set of methods, including general scientific, practical and methods of mathematical statistics. The analysis of special scientific and methodical literature included printed literary sources and databases Scopus, SPORT Discus, Web of Science, Scholar. In total, more than 70 sources of information were analyzed, after which a final review was conducted and 30 literature sources were singled out, the material of which was processed using general scientific methods. The results. It was found that 54.5% of the athletes complained about muscle pain of weak or moderate intensity. The results of the comparative experiment showed that the level of pain syndrome decreased in athletes of the main group from 3.2 to 2.1 points, at p <0.05. Conclusions. The use of therapeutic gymnastics using isometric exercises and post-isometric relaxation contributes to the restoration of physical performance of judo athletes. However, the influence of the proposed methodology on the development of flexibility was not recorded.