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How Deep Tissue Massage Can Enhance Your Workouts

By |September 29th, 2022|

If you are someone who works out four or more times each week, you should add a deep tissue massage to your routine. And make it monthly! Tight muscles make your workouts suffer. Each deep tissue massage session focuses on those deeper layers of muscle tissue. A deep tissue massage can improve your body and your fitness goals.

Bodywork And Exercise

By |July 15th, 2021|

You have to give us credit: as a culture, Americans are incredibly interested in getting Bodywork And Exercise. We invest every year in new diets, exercise programs, and supplements for weight loss and improved energy. Low-range estimates suggest that Americans spend about $2.6 billion each year on gym memberships alone.

Exercise After Massage?

By |January 11th, 2016|

When booking a massage, consider your schedule, and try to avoid any strenuous physical exertion for at least 24 hours following your bodywork session. Exercising after a session can both increase muscle soreness and compromise the value of the soft-tissue work you’ve just received. “Strenuous exercise” includes activities such as running, weight lifting, high intensity aerobics, or power yoga classes. Light exercise such as moderate walking, gentle stretching, or swimming laps at an easy pace is okay for healthy individuals. One widely accepted view in favor of this twenty-four-hour recovery period is that sustained pressure on connective tissue makes it more gel-like. The technical term for this change is thixotropic effect. This state of increased softness lasts about twenty-four hours, so high-intensity exercise may pull or move the tissue back to old patterns or even induce new strain patterns.

3 Ways To Use A Foam Roller

By |January 3rd, 2015|

If you haven’t been asleep for all of 2012, you’ve probably heard the praises of foam rolling.

This one is no joke! Foam rolling helps to create and maintain long, smooth muscles by massaging out the knots and releasing trigger points. It’s also a fantastic (and cheap!) way to release the fascia, which I’m sure you […]