I learned a long time ago, back when I'd train Capoeira for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and throw in a day or two of weight training for good measure, that your body is not invincible and over time does go through a little wear a tear that can be easily treated.
What am I talking about? Whenever you workout, your doing damage to your muscles, now when you have proper post workout nutrition your muscle rebuild stronger and better than they where before. But despite their "rebuilt" state, they can start to knot or create scar tissue. Overtime if you do not work knots or scar tissue out they will begin to impede your workouts. One muscle will pull on another the wrong way and suddenly you could start to lose a significant amount of strength or be in a lot of pain, loss of mobility can also be an issue.
What do I do to avoid this? Two things, one every workout I use a foam roller for whats called myofascial release. If you want to know more about it just google it. Its basically using a roller at the beginning of your workout to get out the kinks in the muscle and god can it hurt.
The second thing I do is I get a deep tissue full body massage once a month. Don't plan on working out the day of your massage, you can consider your massage a workout. I had a massage earlier today, my body feels wiped out, my muscles just feel completely drained and soar, they have no energy what so ever. I know tomorrow I'll be fine but today after the massage I headed straight for a nap.
The soreness and pain from the massage got me thinking though, after a massage your muscles are open to any kind of nutrition you feed them, perhaps even more so than in your workout. So why not have the same post workout shake after my massage, followed up by a post workout meal?
If it functions the same way, it should mean faster recovery time and your body should have enough of those building blocks to be better than it was before, right? Personally it sounds good to me I'm sticking to it.
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