Today sportsmen and women push themselves to the extreme limits of their physical capabilities.
Placing massive amounts of strain on their bodies.
It happens at a professional level as well as with the general public like you who train like athletes but work full time!
These strains and stresses result in muscular and connective tissue problems, of varying severity, which can be alleviated through massage.
Receiving a massage prior to athletic activity will loosen your muscles.
Massage used in combination with stretching can help ensure that your muscles will be warmed up and ready for intense activity.
Post event massage can help to relieve your pain, prevent any stiffness and return your muscles to their normal state more rapidly.
Sports massage can be just as important in preventing injury as warming up and cooling down, it’s also a lot more enjoyable!!
There are many benefits of a sports massage program, so have a read of these and see what you think:
- Reduced muscle tension and resulting pain
- Aiding recovery from training by reducing delayed onset muscles soreness (DOMS) and removing waste products
- Improved flexibility through stretching, breaking down scar tissue and promoting circulation of blood and lymph, providing your muscles and soft tissues with optimum amount of nutrition
- Improving posture
- Reducing anxiety
- Relaxation
- Promote overall muscle balance
- Enable you to recover more rapidly from injury
- Reduce the likelihood of further injury by increasing flexibility to tight muscles or tendons that might otherwise tend to tear or pull
- Help you to avoid developing chronic problems
- Help you to maintain a more consistent higher level of training and performance
- Effectively reduce adhesions and some degree of scar tissue formation in your soft tissues, allowing for restoration of your muscle integrity and full range of motion
- Provide and invaluable psychological boost
- Enhance your awareness of your body, helping you to find the full range of expression and strength for each movement you make.
So hopefully this article has proved helpful and opened your eyes a bit more to the many benefits of massage. It does help to relax you and make you feel good but it is also vital in maintaining performance and will help you stick to your fitness goals, whilst reducing the chances of injury.
Deep tissue massage is a very effective form of therapy for old, tired and tight muscles. It is an art form as anyone can just beat you up, but I have been working on soft tissue injuries for over 15 years and know exactly when to use deeper techniques and when not to, which is where the success lies.
Thanks for reading, if you need a massage give me a call.
To book call: 01792 893127 (please leave a message if unable to get through) or email info@richard-clarke.co.uk
