Get back in the game
how sports massage can help get you back on top of your game.
Whether you are trying to dominate the boardroom or the mats one thing is for sure those nagging aches and pains are going to hinder your performance.
I don’t know if there’s a worse feeling than knowing you want to perform your best but your body not letting you. When you have to watch your friends and teammates progress and you sit on the sidelines holding your back and shoulder wondering how long you’re going to be out this time.
I know I’ve been there several times and it sucks. I missed 5 weeks of BJJ because I injured my back. At the end-of-year seminar, I literally sat on the bench whilst everyone learnt some cool moves from Professor Pan.
It was frustrating, and disappointing and left me feeling like a failure even though I had no control about whether or not I got injured…
Here’s the thing as you’re probably well aware of…
Pain follows you everywhere.
So when you injure yourself at the gym or on the field that pain follows you to work, to your home and family life. There is no escape performance everywhere that gets affected.
Maybe your job isn’t helping your recovery either. Sat down all day, not moving around as much as you should be causing lower back pain, shoulder and neck discomfort.
Then you go and train and that pain just compounds.
Here is how sports massage can help you get back on top of your game
Get Rid of Pain and Discomfort
Our muscles are supposed to switch off at rest, yet for some reason, they sometimes stay fired up and when this happens our muscles knot up. You can probably feel this in the part where you have tightness. Sports massage will help relieve these knots giving you instant relief of tension. Trust me when I say that after several weeks and months of tension, it is a great feeling.
Improved range of motion and flexibility
Being in pain whilst you are training is one thing, but reaching for a book off a high shelf and your should twinges, or your back locking up reaching for a parcel is another. Sports Massage and stretching techniques help stretch tight muscles and tissues surrounding joints helping you move through the full range of motion freely without pain or discomfort.
- Flexible joints and muscles are less prone to sprains and strains
- Help maintain posture reducing muscle imbalances which cause pain and discomfort (Like your tight neck hurting whilst you’re trying to work)
- Being flexible can improve performance too with more efficient movements
Improve Recovery
When we train especially intense training our muscles produce metabolic waste such as lactic acid, Deoxygenated blood and Carbon Dioxide. Sometimes these waste products don’t get flushed out of the muscles. Delaying proper recovery.
Sports massage helps flush these waste products out of the muscles allowing for oxygen-rich blood to flow through the body delivering oxygen and nutrients to the damaged area.
This helps reduce muscle soreness and speed up muscle repair and regeneration.
Stress Relief
Sports massage helps you relax it promotes the release of endorphins those feel good happy hormones (Which are also natural painkillers too… But shh don’t tell big pharma they’ll try to patent them)
Take the combination of feel-good happy hormones and natural painkillers with faster recovery from training and The relief that you’ve finally ended your long-standing toxic relationship with muscle tightness and you enter a heavenly bliss you couldn’t even dream of.Â
You can read more about how sports massage can help you here
