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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
These are 2 people who have just been running for 3 days around a running track in all
weathers and they have stiff legs after a few minutes of resting
• It is not invasive
• It is not aggressive
• It is not time consuming
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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
While muscle injury and problem fixing needs to be able to work on the muscles to
have any effect-Recovery requires work with them to be effective
Why is this so?
Doing sport and subjecting them to extra stresses, the muscles are taut like the strings on a
guitar or violin
Like the strings, if they have too much tension placed on them, they can snap and they have to
be replaced-unfortunately it is not so easy to replace the muscles-and if they are damaged
during these early years of sport, then their career is over before it has started
To use invasive work as normally used on already stressed muscles is going to put them in
danger of being overloaded with too much tension being placed on the muscle insertions-this
can create a situation similar to the guitar or violin strings
Recovery
Muscles that are recovering do not need working on-they need working with-which opens up a
range of options not available before that can be used to assist in recovery without putting the
muscles at risk of injury
Ultra athletes suffer from sore feet, sore legs, swollen ankles, stiffness, wasted muscles, muscle
cramps, tiredness, mental fatigue, restless legs, sore skin, night pains, muscle spasm, muscle
wastage, swollen ankles, hyperthermia, hypothermia, temper tantrums, vomiting, food
sensitivity, allergies, rashes, loss of judgement-and that is the good part
I deal with these on a constant basis at the events I go to-not with the really medical stuff of
course there are doctors on call for those, but with the muscular and muscle recovery that
comes from the abuse they take on the track
Fatigued muscles and recovery
Whatever sport they are into all athletes have the same thing in common-how to recover from
their fatigued muscles quickly, without causing injury
The quickest most effective way of doing this is simply to work the calf muscle pump so that
the output of used blood equals the input of fresh blood into the muscles
To stop the muscles fatiguing, fresh oxygen and nutrient filled blood has to keep being
supplied to the muscles-but when the muscles are fatigued they can’t work at facilitating or
supplying their own needs
The secret to leg recovery
The calf muscle pump
The calf muscles act as the motor for a pump to take it from the feet back to the body against
gravity through the venous system where it is re-nourished and recirculated-but to be working
they have to move.
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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
Look at the photo above-how many towels and bottles of oil do you see?
None because the latest in non-polluting, non-technical method of leg recovery techniques is
being used
The active way to help the legs recover is to learn how to work with the muscles
If you can use your hands you have the tools to do the job of recovery
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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
Below is a chart from when I discovered working with the muscles rather than
on them shows how much things did improve for the runners and walkers
If these figures are translated into recovery speed for the person with aching legs they
would be very happy
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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
Quickly-easily and in an environmentally friendly way!
The World Run Recovery System is a simple system that is easy to use without
the need for equipment other than the hands
Resource Box
Michael Gillan is an Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist who has been a masseur around many
ultra long distance events both in Australia and internationally since he was a student in 1993
In 1995 while working at a 6 day run, he changed the approach to recovery of the athletes from
the conventional way of working on the muscles using the hands and fingers to increase muscle
blood circulation, to working with the muscles and making them work on themselves
The results from this changeover can be seen on the Coburg result sheet on page 5
In 1996 Michael went to the Nanango 1000 Mile 16 day event where it was tested and helped
the worlds 4-5 and 11th to achieve their distances
Other notable events the World Run Recovery System was tested on was World Run 1 with
Jesper Olsen www.worldrun.org and the World Run 2 training camp in Denmark in 2007
Because the muscles are being worked with they are actually doing the work-this means that
the skills needed to do the recovery after training and competition do not have to be as great or
as complicated as when they are being worked on
Nothing is being fixed nor is any attempt being made to repair anything
All that is happening is that the body is repairing itself-we are just facilitating it’s ability
to do that by increasing circulation to the muscles
Aching legs should always be checked out by a medical professional before doing anything to
and with them because there are many medical reasons why they may be aching-see a
physician first
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Performance through Recovery not Drugs
Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist
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