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Soccer Recovery Recovery of players using anenvironmentally friendly recoverysystem

Soccer is a huge sport with millions of people playing and watching it at matches and ontelevision-it has a world wide base of players and fans and growing-it is the dream of manyplayers to one day play for their favourite soccer teamThe dreams though can only be kept alive by a willingness to be the best they can be on theground, and this an only be achieved by staying fit and injury free throughout the season andstill has a life to live and money to earn to pay for the expenses connected with their sportThere is an area that is forgotten by, or should I say neglected by many of the players-it isneglected because not too many of them know how to approach this part of their game-

Recovery

-this is as important to the soccer player as maintaining their fitness level-unfortunately just doing warm downs and stretching is not adequate enough to recover themuscles and reduce the effects of muscle soreness and stiffness from training and playinglearning to look after a much forgotten area of playing-recoveryNo matter how much someone trains and practises, or how talented they are, this can bedetrimentally affected if recovery is not quickly and efficiently achievedSoreness and stiffness aid the opposing team by compounding over a season becoming anongoing problem-if it is not reduced or minimized it will help the opposition win the matches

http://www.aching-legs-relief.com/soccer_player_after_match_recovery.html 2Keeping the ‘edge’ can mean the difference between winning and losing a match-the will towin may sometimes not be good enough when stiffness is slowing the reaction time of themuscles on the soccer fieldTo demonstrate how stiffness and fatigue can compound, we can visit a 24-hour relay eventwhere the young athlete runs for 15 minutes, has 5 hours break and goes back for another 15minute leg-in all they do 4 periods on the track in the 24 hours.15 minutes of running with five hours of recovery should be enough time, yet each leg of therelay was more difficult than the last time they went on the track because the muscle were soreand stiffened upThese are 2 people who have just been running for 3 days around a running track in allweathers and they have stiff legs after a few minutes of restingFortunately the World Run Recovery System accommodated their needs to address sorenessand stiffness problems-soccer players or ultra marathon runners and walkers-the problems of recovery are still the same all need to recovery quickly without putting their muscles at risk of injury

It’s not what you do but the way you do it that countsWhile muscle injury and problem fixing needs to be able towork onthe muscles tohave any effect-Recovery requires workwith themto be effectiveWhy is this so?

In any sport where the athlete is training and competing the muscles become tuned to the sportthe muscles are tuned and taut like the strings on a guitar or violinLike the strings, if they have too much tension placed on them, they can snap and they have tobe replaced-unfortunately it is not so easy to replace the muscle fibers-and if they are damagedby outside stresses like fingers working too hard

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the tissues after a hard game and beforethe bodies own recovery processes are under way, the muscles can be damagedI worked at 2 previous Colac 6 day events before changing my approach to recovery fromworking

the muscles to working

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them-and the difference was marked by the amount of time on the recovery table going down from 1 ½-2 hours to 10-15 minutesThose who have worked with endurance athletes will understand why the apparently long timeon the table was needed-and the reduced time meant an advantage was gained in time on track and increased distance

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Below is a chart from when I discovered workingwiththe muscles rather thanonthem 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 theywould be very happyRecovery

Results from 1995 Coburg 6 day footrace

Name Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6A Krouglikov237.2113.6130106126108Kilometers539284325365315270LapsT Rusek215.298.898139.6138.4122.4Kilometers538247245349346306LapsM Taylor174.4128.8143.6123.6138.4122.4Kilometers436322359309302223LapsB Beauchamp180.4133.2124117.611093.2Kilometers451333310294275233LapsP Gray150134105.294.8111.6106Kilometers375335263237279265LapsD Parris138.4108.4106.8116.4106107.2Kilometers346271267274265268LapsI Davis168119.290116.4106107.2Kilometers420298225291180247LapsG Watts132.296.499.2104.492.8133.6Kilometers328241248261232334LapsC Young14291.29097.68892Kilometers355228225244220230LapsD Kettle138.286.890.895.294.484.4Kilometers332217227238236212LapsR Hill12880.899.27095.696.6Kilometers320202248175239241LapsK Fisher16491.650115.249.681.2Kilometers410229125288124203LapsG Pollard12074.873.668.469.661.2Kilometers300187184171174153LapsThe above group came in for Light Manual Muscle RelaxationThe below group did not or had their own recovery peopleT Rafferty141.6112.8104.8101.69896.4Kilometers354282262254245241LapsG McConnel145.6110.8126.4113.6108.4106kilometers363277287284271265LapsG Audley152.8110.8126.4113.6114.895.2kilometersS Scanlon140.882843400Kilometers35220521085pulled out-blistersLapsJ Timms127.298.474.8000kilometers