Do you play sports? Whether it is a professional basketball game, college baseball game, or neighborhood pick-up game of football, sports are a key part of our everyday lives. We watch sports. We listen to sports. And when we have time, we play sports. Sports are not only fun to play, but they provide us with many benefits, and even some potential drawbacks:
1. Sports improve your overall health
Whether you enjoy football, soccer, tennis, hockey, basketball, badminton, or cheese-chasing, sports provide many health benefits. They can boost our endurance, make our muscles meatier, improve our lungs' and heart's operation, and increase our flexibility. Our bodies are amazingly adaptable things. However, even when we gradually increase our exercise regimen, our bodies will need some time to make adjustments.
2. Stress points can cause less flexibility
Stress points are located in muscles and tendons. After becoming pushed, the stress points cause pain, which could expand to a bigger region. They can result from overusing a certain muscle, a quick impact, or from heavy physical force. It is important to note that stress points are not actually bruises.
3. The Tearing-Down Phase of exercise can be a real pain
When we start playing sports or doing other types of rigorous exercising, our bodies undergo three phases: 1) Tearing-Down Phase, 2) Recovery Phase, and 3) Buildup Phase. The first phase can be a pain in the neck-literally! As our bodies start to adjust to exercising, we start to feel soreness and stiffness. You know that "morning after" feeling the day after you start an exercise routine. This could result from various factors, such as muscle spasms, minor muscle tissue damage, or waste product buildup. Thus, we should always GRADUALLY increase how much exercising we do.
4. Over-exercised muscles may over-tighten
When we exercise our muscles too much, such as through sports, they become tight and are unable to relax. This loss of suppleness causes our muscles to become sore, and makes us more vulnerable to injuries.
5. Sports massages can reduce the effects of the Tearing-Down Phase
Fortunately, sports massages, such as hot stone therapy, can help to reduce the negative effects of exercising Tearing-Down Phase. It is important for therapists to focus on the particular muscle groups that certain movements in various sports, influence. For instance, some sports focus on the upper body, others focus on the lower body, and still others focus on the whole body! Hot stone massages can deliver. The kits include stones of various sizes, which fit nicely onto the back, shoulders, fingers, etc. Furthermore, the stones' being heated provides soothing relief for aching muscles.
Another benefit of hot stone massages is that therapists can use a wide variety of massage types to treat the patient, ranging from Swedish massage to Shiatsu massage.
If you are starting to play sports or exercise, then muscle soreness and stiffness are simply part of the process. Fortunately, a sports massage and hot stone combination, can give you a sporting chance to recover quickly!
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