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The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance

Share If you are interested in the free sample book of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery: Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance by Sage Rountree, click here for the 36 page PDF file from Velopress. This book covers all the possible modalities for recovery and regeneration, which I’ve covered on this blog over the [...]

Trigger Point Therapy and Self-Myofascial Release, Part 4

Share This is Part 4 of a multi-part series.  Click here for Part 1, here for Part 2 and here for Part 3 This will be the last installment of the series. I know I sound like Lyle McDonald of the Protein Book with these multi-part articles. I mentioned the 3 basic things for Trigger [...]

Trigger Point Therapy and Self-Myofascial Release, Part 3

Share This is Part 3 of a multi-part series.  Click here for Part 1, and click here for Part 2. If you liked the 7 Squats Tip video by Eric Cressey last month, you’ll like love his simple demonstration on how to use a foam roller and tennis ball. By now, if you are following [...]

Trigger Point Therapy and Self-Myofascial Release, Part 2

Share This is Part 2 of a multi-part series.  Click here for Part 1. Here is another resource for you, and best of all, it’s free.  It’s called Self-Myofascial Release: Purpose, Methods, and Techniques by Mike Robertson. If you look at the cover of the ebook, you will notice 3 objects, and these are the [...]

Trigger Point Therapy and Self-Myofascial Release, Part 1

Share . This is Part 1 of a multi-part series. If you wonder why a big portion of this Blog is dedicated to recovery and regeneration, it is because I believe it is the next important element next to training, especially for Masters athletes.   Sure, nutrition and supplements are also important, but overtraining without proper [...]

5 Ways Athletes Can Benefit from Massage Therapy

Share 5 Ways that Athletes Can Benefit from Massage Therapy. This article is guest blogged by Elise Degrass from MassageTherapy. Massage therapy has been used for hundreds of years as a form of alternative medicine and a way to promote health and well being. Though many people think of massage therapy as primarily a relaxation [...]

Soft Tissue Therapy – Notes from Underground

Share One of these days, I’ll have to interview my USA based soft tissue specialist Joe Horrigan or Canadian-now-UK specialist Gerry Ramogida and talk about what it’s like to be a therapist at the Olympic or World level.  I am sure they will have very interesting stories to tell. Until then, Australia’s Brad Hiskins (in [...]

Massage, Recovery, and Massage Sticks

Share If you can’t afford a daily massage, then I recommend at least a weekly massage as a bare minimum.  A good therapist will cost anywhere above $70 USD per hour.  I find 1 hour insufficient for the lower body, so my sessions are usually 75 or 90 minutes long. $70 bucks may be pretty [...]

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