Improve Workout Efficiency Like Pro Atheletes

Ever wondered what NBA hall of famer, Kobe Bryant and 23-time
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps do to increase workout efficiency
and maintain their physical shape at the highest level?

If you are an avid workout enthusiast like me, then you’ve probably
gotten used to dealing with muscle soreness after a workout. Sure, such
soreness is bearable and most of us have embraced it as a result of
doing a hard workout. However, if you can help your body recover
faster to get the same training results in less time, then you will have
more time to enjoy a healthier life.

Let’s take a look at what practices professional athletes use to improve
workout efficiency. It’s very likely that you can adopt one or more of
these methods to improve your own workout.

1. Massage Therapy


In order to stay healthy as you age, your muscles and joints should stay as flexible as
possible.

Medical and fitness experts suggest that you should stretch and massage inflamed muscles for
10 minutes after exercising in order to aid recovery and help blood and nutrients circulate your body.

When you exercise, lactic acid builds up in your muscles. In time, you
will start to feel soreness and stiffness. The more intense your workout
is, the faster you build up lactic acids in your muscles. A massage done
properly can offset soreness and stiffness of your muscles by improving
blood circulation and dispersing lactic acid concentration. This form of physical therapy will get
the feeling of relaxation and balance you desperately need right after an
intense workout.

That’s why 5-time NBA championship winner, Kobe Bryant works
closely with his physical therapist in every game. Many
experts believe that Kobe and his medical team’s focus on keeping his
body flexible is a major factor as to why Kobe never suffered a career-
ending injury in his 20 years of professional playing.

Even people who don’t believe in massage can’t deny the fact that
massaging relieves soreness, and lowers stress and anxiety. After all, being
relieved mentally is just as important as physical relief when it comes to
maintaining a healthy and balanced life.

2. Cupping Therapy


If you’ve been following the news this year, you’ve probably seen the
red circle marks on 23-time Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps.
Cupping therapy may be new to many westerners, but it has been
around for over 3000 years as a fairly common practice in
Chinese medical treatments.

This ancient traditional physical therapy involves putting special cups on your
skin for a couple of minutes to create suction. As an alternative
medicine, cupping therapy is believed to reduce pain, muscle soreness,
and improve blood flow.

Cupping is great at relieving muscle stiffness and pain quickly and
effectively. It’s also often used to treat pain and strain caused by long-
term fatigue as athletes wear down the muscles in intense training.
How does it have such a healing effect? Supporters believe that
cupping removes harmful substances and toxins from your body to
promote recovery. However, not many scientific studies have been done
to prove that.

Unlike massage, cupping can’t be done frequently on a regular basis.
Every time you get cupping, your skin and body need at least a week to
recover and you risk damaging your skin and tissue if you get cupping
too often. If you are thinking of getting cupping, it’s important to get it from a
professional therapist after you've talked to your doctor.

3. Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)


Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) is widely used for rehabilitation
because of its effectiveness at stimulating deep muscle tissues to ease
pain. What is not commonly known is the fact that EMS has also been
used by professional athletes to improve training since the early 1950’s.

Have you ever received a physical therapy or visited a chiropractor?
They usually use a “Medium-frequency” electrotherapy machine to relax
your body muscles. Medium-frequency electrotherapy machine sends
an electric current that mimics a massage to stimulate your muscles
and increase blood circulation. It reduces muscle inflammation and
expedites the healing process to improve pain management and muscle cramps.
Most companies in the world still struggle to shrink a
“Medium-frequency wave” machine into a portable size.

You might have seen a smaller electrotherapy device being sold on the
market. These are called TENS or EMS units.
These units only release a “Low-frequency wave” that temporarily ease
your pain, meaning they are less physically and cost effective.

Portable, medium-frequency EMS device

In 2016, our electrical engineers here at Fitgene Technology invented
the world’s first portable “Medium-frequency” EMS. We named it U-
GYM Pro and we even received a patent for it. U-GYM Pro works
exactly like the bulkier sized medium-frequency machines seen at a
physical therapy center. Click on this link to learn more about U-GYM
Pro!

An EMS device can also help with muscle training. How does it work?
Simply put, it shocks your muscles to make them contract, which is
what muscles do when they work. So when your deep muscle tissues
are stimulated by EMS whilst you're training, your normal workout
becomes more intensified. A full EMS training suit is capable of
reducing an hour worth of workout time down to only 20 minutes!

Mainstream EMS usage

Out of the 3 methods discussed in this article, EMS training is the
newest. EMS training is still being freshly adopted by many professional
athletes to improve and add to their existing physical therapy treatments.
The most notable athlete being the 11-time world champion
Usain Bolt, who uses EMS extensively in his training to gain greater
benefits and improve normal workout.

Ads that claim EMS can give you killer abs while sitting on your couch
watching TV are nothing but dinner jokes. Anyone with a bit of common
sense can spot that from a mile away.

But with Usain Bolt’s great success at this year’s Olympics, more and
more fitness enthusiasts are adopting EMS. Many EMS users even see
it as the future of sport training.

These are just some of the methods professional athletes use to improve
muscle recovery quicker and enhance their workout efficiency. Do you have any others
to add? Let us know in the comments below!




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