Working with Pro Athletes

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PRO ATHLETE PREP TECHNIQUES.

Any qualified suggestions to enhance said techniques would be most appreciated as we are a progressively free learning group.

Let's say an athlete is involved in a physical one on one sport and that athlete's muscles are more prepared than his opponent's? The former athlete has a huge advaneforum.xxxe.

Up until this point, especially in such a new sport such as MMA (mixed martial arts) an athlete would put most if not all atttention directed towards extremely grueling training schedules. The aim is of course to get the maximum output from the body. However, what we are introducing is a training plan with as much focus on physical therapy as physical training and in fact working side by side to get even more efficiency and positive results from the body.

Let's take an extreme athlete, a full contact fighter who warms his muscles up alone the best he can. A sports therapist then jumps in and additionally tones up his muscles in a way that he cannot tone by himself to the maximum efficiency. This is the advaneforum.xxxe I speak about.

The techniques are used in 2 ways.

Before each intensive training session begins the technique is performed to protect the muscles initially and enhance training throughout the work day. The results of this method are most apparent the day after an intense training day because the body does not suffer from additional stresses unnecessarily as it may normally do.

Additionally, after the days work ends the fighter is physically wound down and lactic acid is removed from the muscles as efficiently as possible with a sports massage.

The body structure is also checked to be sure that the base pelvic girdle is at all times in balance.

The results from constant physical care throughout the prep process is not only appreciated the day after but initial tests have shown that the body can perform better for extended periods of time.

10 minutes before the fighter walks out into the crowd to the beat of the music and the lights is probably the most important time to use this technique, (although not intending to take away importance from the 1st method).

We have been testing a toning muscle spindle technique on some fighters with positive results so far. Incidentally this technique has evolved from the teachings of the late great, Dr Wladimir Janda and the very living, Dr Erik Dalton.

WHAT ARE MUSCLE SPINDLES?

Muscle spindles are in each and every muscle of our bodies. They are the third most complicated organs in the body behind the eyes and ears.

Muscle spindles are ultra sensitive and react quickly to any change in length or stretch. This is how we can enhance tone in the muscle, by applying stretch to the muscle and a quick paced contact technique, with open fists, ends of the fingers and even vigorous rubbing with the forearm. All these are effective.

It is a very physical technique and requires a level of fitness from the sports therapist because each motion is multi directional and with enough force to rock the Athlete's feet from side to side if in the laying position.

Athletes who are being toned moments before the event itself most benefit. Placing the fighter at this seforum.xxxe in relaxing positions is not an option so all tech's are quickly changed dynamically and preferably done standing or in natural positions. The techniques are also performed with 2 therapists working in balance on both sides of the body simultaneously.

For our fighters we concentrate on;

The BACK MUSCLES for driving. The back muscles below the upper traps and rear shoulder are naturally weak in all of us so extra tone here is a good idea. Other naturally weak muscles are also our focus.

The GLUTEALS. Also drivers.

The VASTUS MEDIALIS and LATERALIS (Weak and vulnerable muscles on either side of the knee). In most athletics the Vastus muscles are good muscles to tone for explosive movements but with fighters like MMA, Thai or Kick Boxing, the knees must absorb strikes and therefore are even more important.

Finally I finish with the pecs and front shoulder. These muscles are the brakes. These front driver muscles (pec's and front shoulder) halts a strike and snaps the arm back to the cocked position.

A BASIC BODY RETRAINING TECHNIQUE

Another technique we use is to correct any hidden weakness' that the athlete doesn't realize exists. Using a specific series of tests we take the athlete back to the basics of coordination and balance.

When we are children we first begin to subcosciously record our motor skills. As life goes on and develops so do these subconscious signals. Where an athlete is today is directly related to the building of subconscious memory of movement even without conscious knowledge.

By going back to basics and detecting any said hidden weakness' or deficiencies we can reprogram and retrain bodies motor system until the athlete is even better in terms of efficiency and precision of movement.

Top level athletes have more advanced motor memory skills than the average Joe or everyone would be heroes but that doesn't mean they are working in a state of perfection. It is our job to get them as close to that point as humanly possible.

Your views would be most interesting and appreciated as we never stop learning and striving to advance our skills.