The specialist Eloisa Vergara Barros of the Centre for Kinesiology and preventive medicine (KMP), gives us some recommendations to take advantage of massages for athletes.
Sport is considered a source of health and involves overcoming physical demand to achieve victory, according to sportingology.com. His practice has spread among the population by causing one greater effort, energy expenditure and risk of injury. Massages and especially sports favor that fatigue will be reduced quickly, prevents injury and if these occur accelerates the recovery.
The types of massage are wide, whether sports or not, this will depend on the objective you want to achieve. There are different types of massage, but in sports the most used are: massage drains, relieving, relaxing, regenerative and decrease pain in case of injury.
Many questions are: when the massage do? Do I have to be constantly doing it? In which parts of the body I do massage? We spoke to the specialist in sports massage Eloisa Barros of the Centre of Kinesiology and medicine preventive (KMP) that met us doubts and informed us about the topic.
“Is others say that massages are recommended for all areas of physical activity, from cyclists, players in football, athletes, swimmers, crossfitt, etc.” “In this case, the most popular physical activity in massage is the Athletics.” It explains the kinesiologist.
Today, most frequent massages are runners before a competition, so thus they are more balanced. Should always be eye in certain aspects, for example: If the 10 k 0 21k are made at a strong pace, consider that you can cause some damage to muscular level, i.e., can be a break within the normal which can increase inflammation in that area, therefore, the massage will not be so intense It will be a rather superficial massage to decrease muscle tone.In addition to the use of drainage of metabolic wastes to optimize a little exercise and encourage feedback.
After the race within two or three days you can expect to lower inflammation and a deep tissue massage can be done. The area in which the massage is performed is usually where it generates greater muscle work: legs and thighs. Hands are fundamental tools for diagnosing the most tense areas.
“Today, thanks to social networks and the internet, people reporting more on the subject. One can become a massage but keep eye to not create more friction than”, features Eloisa.” Currently, not only subjected to massage those that run in a professional manner, but which also run on their own. It for them is make massage above all two or three weeks before the competition, since in the long run, it optimizes performance.
Massages are recommended for all areas: cyclists, football, swimmers, crossfitt, athletes, etc.
You don’t need specific products, usually your hands and emulsified cream for a massage.
It is not recommended to do massage when: you have disease to skin, alteration of the calculation and trauma.
Techniques: Rub (Effleurage), friction, percussion, compression, kneading, vibration.