Benefits of sports massage
Sports massage is effective because of the beneficial
physiological and psychological effects that are derived from the massage.
Specifically, sports massage treatments enable the athlete in training to work
out and recover faster and more efficiently.
During any exercise, as a muscle contracts to do the work,
it's fibers shorten and glide together allowing the muscle and tendon to
broaden. In sports massage, compression and friction techniques imitate
this broadening to help create more pliability of the connective tissues and
eliminating restrictions in the broadening of the muscle.
Some of the benefits of sports massage include:
- maintaining and increasing flexibility
- Improves alignment of the body to optimize performance
and eliminate wear and tear
- speeds recovery of muscle and tendons after hard
workouts and competitions
- reduces stiffness and soreness of training
- reduces risk of injury
- increases the circulation
- enhances the athlete's awareness of their body
- greater improvement in strength, endurance and overall
fitness
A tight muscle is a weak muscle.
A tight muscle is not using all of it's fibers for
contracting and therefore a workout will not be as effective.
A tight muscle increases the risk of injury.
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