In the most recent article, we have covered several aspects as to why it is encouraged for athletes to undergo sports massages. You too, may try out sports massages if you’re into endurance training and heavy physical exercises.
The second part of the article will delve into more positive aspects of sports massages.
1. Muscle Soreness is Decreased
Athletes often put themselves or undergo an intense and strenuous exercise regime to build stamina and endurance for major sporting events and to upskill their athletic performance.
One of the main benefits of sports massages is that it helps with lympathic drainage. When a person sustains an injury or experience small tears of their muscle fibre, it tends to cause swelling, fatigue and weakness of their muscles.
According to physio.co.uk, when a person undergoes a sports massage/physiotherapy, it helps with increasing lymphatic drainage which aids in the removal of waste products from tissues back into the blood flow and out of a person’s body. The long-term benefits of this includes quick recovery from pain, which helps decrease susceptibility to delayed onset muscle soreness, which also promotes both mental and physical improvement. Lympathic drainage also helps with improved blood circulation.
However, be advised that lympathic drainage often causes fluids to be removed from the body, causing a person to feel dry and thirsty. Remember to stock up on water and hydrate yourself once you have undergone sports massage.
2. Helps to Maintain Blood Pressure to a Safe Level
As sports massages help to relieve tension and stress, it particularly assists with levelling one’s blood pressure to a safe level. It also helps to form a better vascular system for a person, according to Shefford Osteopathic Clinic.
3. Improved Body Awareness
Sports massages assist with improving your nervous system function. There are often psychological effects that come with improvement of one’s nervous system, in such that a person is confident that they have the ability to perform or endure strenuous activity, hence making them feel less stressed, and more focused on achieving their athletic goals. An increase in confidence also helps with increasing their sports performance.
4. Repairing scar tissues
Muscle stiffness is a likely consequence of an untreated sports-related injury. The injured muscle will slowly lose its flexibility and elasticity over time.
Sports massage can help with separating the damaged muscle fibres and breaking down the scar tissue, which usually forms during the healing process. This can help heal the affected area at a more rapid pace and improve an athlete’s performance.
5. Invigorating feeling
Sports massages are especially useful during pre-sporting events, particularly if the massages are done with brisk movements as this can produce an invigorating feeling, according to Healthy Life Essex.
So there you have it, the positive qualities one can attain by undergoing sports massages to help improve their physical stamina, endurance and athletic performance. If you haven’t tried out sports massages, you can start immediately to experience a boost in your mental and physical wellbeing whilst not straying away from achieving your athletic pursuits.
