Matt
Barlow (slowprogress.co.uk)
at it again... Climbers
beware!
Restore
Sponsored professional Mountain Bike Trials Rider
Matt Barlow found another use for the Fontainbleau
boulders this easter! With a daily stretching class,
taught by Paul Martin of Restore Sports Massage, Both
Matt and all the other trials riders and climbers
were able to keep pushing their bodies to the limits,
making the most of a short easter break. With at least
6 hours of hard bouldering or trials riding per day,
maximising the efficiency of recovery was essential
to help us make the most of our precious time off.
Pre
holiday sports massage could ease off that nagging
pain just long enough to stop it from interupting
your precious time off.
Just one session before you leave could be the diffeence
between total enjoyment or a nagging reminder of home
or work stress. Dont hesitate, book in now.
If
like me you found yourself with just a week or less
to race up to Scotland and make the most of the best
winter climbing conditions since the 70's, then you
will probably have spent every available moment of
those precious few days thunking your way up as many
routes as possible! There’s nothing quite like
the feeling of sinking your axes and front points
into perfect nevé and solid ice, making fast
progress in awesome surroundings. You will also no
doubt be familiar with the feeling of burning calf
muscles from standing on your front points or the
'thoroughly worked' or 'pumped out' sensations in
your back, shoulders and forearms. If you are now
trying to train for a great summers rock climbing
then you may shortly discover, if you haven’t
already, that your body is screaming out to you for
a rest and some quality recovery.
Ask
any professional athlete, there's nothing like a good
sports massage to really sooth away all that hard
physical work and release those well hardened calf
muscles. Just because we're climbers doesn’t
mean we're not eligible for appropriate physical support!
In fact, as amateur athletes go we're about as extreme
as it gets. We're probably equivalent to Olympic gymnasts
in the demands we put on our bodies and think of all
the support they get! At least, that’s what
I like to think when I'm bouldering!
Take
care of your recovery, and your training will take
care of itself!
