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Sports Massage
Sports massage can be an important addition to your workout and training, helping you achieve your performance goals with minimum injury and pain. After training, a massage will help you recover two to three times faster, flushing out the lactic acid and built up toxins in the muscles.
Sports massage is the manipulation of the body's ligaments, tissues and muscles after participating in an athletic event or exercise program. Sports massage is not simply for elite athletes. Sports massage prevents injures, enhances flexibility and helps sore bodies heal faster.
For example, during a hard run, the body produces lactic acid, which contributes to the "burning" sensation you feel after a workout. After any anaerobic activity - biking, cycling or hiking - lactic acid builds up in your muscles, leaks into your blood stream and circulates through your body, contributing to fatigue.
Sports massage increases circulation, helps flush away lactic acid and decreases post-exercise soreness. Furthermore, any weight bearing activity causes microscopic muscle tears. When these tears heal, the muscle grows stronger while increased circulation from sports massage speeds up the body's healing process.
Ideally, getting a massage once a week is optimal, supporting your fitness or sports program, improving flexibility and range of motion, relieving tired and sore muscles, speeding recovery from strenuous physical exertion, and helps reduce the anxiety of athletic competition.
Finally, enjoying a sports massage before running a race, jumping onto the basketball court or engaging in any other athletic activity, is a great way to warm up and get your blood flowing, thereby decreasing your chance of injury. Besides, getting a massage just feels good.
Benefits of Sports Massage:
- Relaxes muscles and improves joint mobility
- Increases range of motion
- Flushes out lactic acid in the muscles
- 2 to3 times faster recovery rate after a massage
- Improves flexibility
- Increases circulation
- Stimulates lymphatic system, hence improves immune system
- Relieves muscle aches and stiffness
- Breaks up scar tissue
- Prevents injuries that might be caused by stressing unbalanced muscle groups, or by favoring or forcing a painful, restricted area
If you have any questions on any massage related topics, please feel free to contact me through this website or at the clinic.
Stay well,
Christena Chesney RMT
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