It’s great to feel 100% ready for your next training session or competition. Whether you’re training for a triathlon, preparing for a CrossFit competition, planning an epic climbing weekend, or looking to crush it in your weeknight volleyball league, you’re pushing your body hard and need to balance training stress and recovery.
Any hindrance to your performance is annoying, and–more importantly–it can jeopardize achieving your goals. Maybe you are losing a vital part of your athleticism–speed, power, or strength. Significant soreness, aches, or pains during or after your workouts are factors, too. In any case, it means that you need to recover and have a plan to recover.
What is Needed to Recover?
What does it mean to truly recover? You see lots of services and products that promise better recovery. The truth is a properly recovered state can be a fine line. Rest too little, and you risk poor performance or potentially injury. Rest too much and you begin to ‘detrain.’
Your basic building blocks of recovery are sleep, physical rest, nutrition, and hydration. Having adequate amounts of each of these gives you the best possible foundation for which you can build your athletic performance. However, with the perfect foundation laid, you can still have musculoskeletal deficiencies that require a performance plan for recovery and injury prevention.
Have a Performance Plan
There are different types of injuries, from overuse to traumatic. Injury in general can lead to an imbalance of your overall athleticism. No one wants to be taken out of training or competition, so there needs to be a plan in place to help you perform your best.
Physical therapists are movement experts that understand the intricacies of your sport. They can assess how you move and identify any deficiencies or dysfunctions that may lead to injury. They can give you a performance plan that allows you to strengthen your weaknesses, so you can fortify your body to reduce the likelihood of injury and increase overall athleticism.
Alongside individualized exercise prescription tailored to your sport, physical therapists can help you create a plan for pre- and post- workout recovery. This will include exercises that are specific to the movement required to perform, or your plan might include hands-on manual therapy or treatment to increase your body’s ability to recover and heal.
Movement Plus: More Than Just Rehab
Going to a physical therapist BEFORE you are injured will help you perform without barriers. Injury prevention is performance, so we are on your team to help you when you need us most–and this is made even more possible with Movement Plus.
Spooner is offering a new, revolutionary way to access physical therapy: Movement Plus. This membership allows you to connect with a therapist and quickly receive their expert opinion about any aches, pains or performance questions you might have. Your sport-specific needs can be screened by a professional within minutes, and the care you need to perform and recover better will be accessible to you faster than any other healthcare path.
To learn more about Movement Plus and to Join the Movement, visit the website here.