If golf is your thing, it’s time to start focusing not only on training and performance but how to recover after training and games. Recovery is a factor that can sometime get overlooked but can have a massive effect on performance both short term and long term. There are four main components of recovery: hydration, refuelling, physical and psychological recovery.
It’s all about swim, bike, run and for most recreational triathletes, they only just manage to fit the required training sessions into an already busy weekly routine, let alone set aside time to recover. However, a proper recovery strategy can make the difference to the quality of your next training session and race, and makes sure your efforts are maximised.
You need to nail your recovery tactics to ensure a peak performance in training as well as racing.
SB Sports Massage and Rehabilitation founder and Clinic Director Sally Barker has to spoken to HFE (Health and Fitness Education), a leading provider of sports massage courses and fitness qualifications. The in-depth interview forms part of HFE’s Industry Insights series…
Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise. Stress can come from a variety of things, such as an increase in load for example in weight training or distance in running. It is one of the most important components of any programme, whether that be a general exercise; running or rehabilitation programme. Without progressive overload, there can be no improvement towards any set targets. By increasing the stress placed on the body, above what it has previously dealt with, it will adapt to the change in demands placed on it through alterations in its structures (muscle size, bone density, ligament strength). As a result, you will see improvements towards the targets you have set.
Massage is a safe and effective way of reducing pain and improving range of movement in patients suffering with arthritis. Although massage cannot cure or prevent arthritis, it will definitely ease the symptoms. Massage treatment, at the tolerance level of the client, will reduce swelling and muscular stiffness at the joints and should ease pain.
For the 3000 or so runners who will be taking part in this year’s Harewood House 10k, there will be an opportunity for you to experience one of our popular Sports Massages for free at this event.
Why wait until your muscles are in desperate need of attention to get treatment? People spend a long time talking or thinking about niggling pain and muscle aches but how much time do people actually spend focussing on preventing those niggles becoming injuries in the first place? Injuries that could ultimately cause them pain and slow them down.
After the success of our second clinic opening in Chorley, Lancashire in April 2015, we have recently embarked on further expansion in Lancashire, this time in Bolton.
The average person takes about 4000-6000 steps per day (NHS UK). Add to this any running you may do, as well as standing for long periods of time and it’s not surprising that a lot of people have painful feet. Most people’s feet simply ache after a long day but there is a condition that is more chronic than this – Plantar Fasciitis.
Sally, the Director of SB Sports Massage has been appointed as Soft Tissue Therapist for the GB Para Swim squad.
We will be looking after the riders of a corporate cycling event this month as they embark on a choice of road rides inspired by the recent Tour de Yorkshire.
Top Sports Massage Therapist Sally Barker talks to Lancashire Evening Post’s sports journalist Craig Salmon during his massage treatment at their clinic in Chorley, Lancashire.
