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Posted by: John Sutton | February 12, 2009

The Benefits of Self-Massage. (Ooer Missus!)

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Having had a calf muscle tighten so badly during a run last week that I had to stop, I immediately resorted to my tried and trusted stretching, ibuprofen and ice routine. The pull eased quite quickly and i didn’t feel it at all on the following couple of bike rides, one of which was nearly four hours long. Lat night I decided to try a run, exactly seven days after the injury. I took it very steadily and only dd my 6.5k short circuit. I could feel it pulling slightly and stretched and iced again as soon as I got home. Wondering how else I could aid the recovery I figured that massage might help. With a certain amount of trepidation I entered “self massage” into Google. I needn’t have worried, I got pages and pages of advice, all of it above board! Here is just one link I found to be useful:

http://www.selfmassageforathletes.com/Running.html.

I can confirm that today the calf feels pretty good, and I’ll test it out with a further run tonight.

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Responses

I have a persistantly tight quads and ITB and I use a rolling pin on my legs after a run as well as stretching. It really works.

By: Simon Lewis on February 12, 2009
at 4:08 pm

Hey John,
How did the run go?

Take a look at this page for runners: http://www.selfmassageforathletes.com/RunResources.html

at my website and let me know what you think. Check out the six videos for runners.

Thanks,
rich poley

By: rich poley on February 28, 2009
at 2:14 am

[...] On the post before that I was writing about self-massage, and the owner of the website I quoted in that post also visited the blog and left a comment. I am happy to report, Rich, that the massage was a definite benefit and I am now fully recovered and back up to over 90 minutes on my long training runs. Self-massage will definitely feature in my recovery routine from now on. So here is another shout-out for Rich Poley’s really useful website: http://www.selfmassageforathletes.com/RunResources.html [...]

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at 10:01 pm