Sports Massage Team: What is sports masage?

WHAT IS SPORTS MASSAGE?

In recent years, sports science has made tremendous breakthroughs in the approach to improving athletic performance. Appropriate diet, rest, flexibility, strength training, and fluid replacement must be combined with efficient training and recovery techniques to maximize individual performance. But there's more…

Growing numbers of athletes are utilizing sports massage, making it an integral part of their sports training and competing regimen. Sports massage focuses on releasing tight, contracted, overworked muscles used in your sport or activity, and on restoring them to their optimum condition

The results speak for themselves. Sports massage can be the answer to enable you to train and compete more efficiently and allow you to achieve new levels of success and personal achievement.

FOUR TYPES OF SPORTS MASSAGE

Pre-Event — 15- to 20-minute session at a sports event as close as 30 to 40 minutes before competition. The purpose is to increase circulation, joint range-of-motion, and muscle flexibility. Techniques are designed to invigorate muscles and to prepare and athlete for a quicker, safer, and more efficient start.

Inter-Competition — Brief 10-15 minute sessions during breaks in games or matches. The purpose is to invigorate fatigued muscles and increase muscle flexibility for resumed competition.

Post-Event — The most widely used event massage, it can reduce or even eliminate next day stiffness and soreness. It enhances and speeds the body's natural recovery process.

Maintenance — Thorough 60-minute sessions during a training and competing season, focusing on maintaining and repairing fatigued and injured muscle tissues used most in your sport or activity. It allows you to maintain your ability to train and compete at optimum levels and helps prevent injuries.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF SPORTS MASSAGE?

Improves circulation, which assists blood in supplying essential nutrients and oxygen to tissues, and aids lymph circulation, enhancing the elimination of accumulated toxins and waste by-products such as lactic acid.

Increases flexibility, by releasing hyper-sensitive trigger points, breaking up muscular adhesions and realigning injured muscle fibers to form healthy scar tissue. Optimum flexibility allows you to use your muscles to their full potential.

Decreases recovery time, allowing you to maintain training intensity from day to day, and to recover faster post-event, so you can resume your training intensity.

Prevents injuries, allowing you to keep training and to compete uninterrupted. Releasing chronically tight and contracted muscles can help to prevent muscle strains, pulls, and tears.

Improves PERFORMANCE! Improved circulation, increased flexibility, decreased recovery time, and injury prevention add up to enhancing your ability to successfully achieve your goals. Thus the name, PERFORMANCE PLUS.