Sports massage: Is it worth?
Working with elites for several years, I cannot really bring in my mind someone
who doesn’t consider massage crucial. The explanation is simple: It’s important
for preventing injuries, speed up recovery and peak performance....
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Sports massage: Is it worth?
Working with elites for several years, I cannot really bring in my mind someone
who doesn’t consider massage crucial. The explanation is simple: It’s important
for preventing injuries, speed up recovery and peak performance.
Exercised muscles, especially during intensive training, reduce their capacity to relax.
This can lead to a chronic tightness (muscles become hypertonic), which makes them reduce
their flexibility. Lack of flexibility leads to a feeling of soreness and is one of the causes for
muscle injuries such as pulls or tears.
The role of Sports Massage can be crucial, improving the muscle flexibility and range of
motion of the joints.
Massage can produce mechanical pressure, which increases muscle compliance resulting in
increased range of joint motion, decreased both passive and active stiffness.
Speeds up recovery between the workouts. Massage improves blood and lymphatic
circulation. The body cells use the oxygen for nutrition, repair and grow
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