Environmentally Friendly Leg Recovery

Environmentally Friendly Leg Recovery-Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist The environment and its degradation is a hot topic The environment and how to reduce our footprint on it is an important topic being discussed amongst many people at the moment, and rightly so There are many ways put forward on what the individual can do to minimize their contribution and at the same time reduce the costs of adding to the greenhouse effect-these can mean using the car less and taking public transport where necessary, turning off electric appliances when they are not in use, changing the light globes in the house to more efficient ones An area that many people who work on relieving aching fatigued legs using manual recovery systems such as massage can make a difference is by changing to an environmentally friendly system that does not need any oil

Look at the photo above-how many towels and bottles of oil do you see? None because the latest in non-polluting, non-technical method of leg recovery techniques is being used

All over the world every weekend there are sporting events-and people getting their legs worked on after a hard week of abusing their legs through their occupations-all need recovery but have to use oil as a lubricant to prevent friction burns on the skin The sporting areas of leg recovery would include people who work at sporting events such as marathons, football, cricket, fun runs, baseball games, soccer, and most other sports that involve dynamic activity where the legs are made to work particularly hard and the muscles become sore and fatigued In the occupation area there are doctors, nurses, shop workers, factory workers, teachers-the list of people who get aching legs goes on

An environmentally friendly way of recovering the legs This is known as ‘passive’ recovery-waiting for the body to recover itself

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Environmentally Friendly Leg Recovery-Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist A local survey revealed that most people who suffered from aching legs would use an ‘environmentally friendly’ method of recovering their legs after the legs became fatigued but they were unaware that any method other than laying down with the legs elevated existed

The reason for having the legs elevated is to let the fluid and used blood that may have built up in the lower legs and ankles flow back to the body through the veins-this allows fresh blood to be carried into the muscles through the arteries Most of them though were too busy to use this although it is ‘environmentally friendly’ so those that needed some aching leg relief had to use the oil methods presently in use When using massage oil and working on the muscles, the imprint on the environment is increased There are towels to be washed and this uses •

Electricity-think atmospheric pollution-power stations-coal-smoke-carbon emissionsnuclear energy

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Water-after every event think washing machines-water used

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Washing powder-soap and grease going down the drain and floating out into the rivers and oceans

The secret to an ‘environmentally friendly’ leg recovery

The calf muscle pump The calf muscles act as the motor for a pump to take it from the feet back to the body against gravity through the venous system where it is re-nourished and recirculated-but to be working they have to move.

Once you figure out how it all works you have an environmentally friendly recovery system Copyright 2008 Michael Gillan 2 http://www.achinglegs.org/environmentally_friendly_recovery_system.html

Environmentally Friendly Leg Recovery-Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist

Results from 1995 Coburg 6 day footrace Name A Krouglikov

Day 1 237.2 539

Day 2 113.6 284

Day 3 130 325

Day 4 106 365

Day 5 126 315

Day 6 108 Kilometers 270 Laps

T Rusek

215.2 538

98.8 247

98 245

139.6 349

138.4 346

122.4 Kilometers 306 Laps

M T aylor

174.4 436

128.8 322

143.6 359

123.6 309

138.4 302

122.4 Kilometers 223 Laps

B Beauchamp

180.4 451

133.2 333

124 310

117.6 294

110 275

93.2 Kilometers 233 Laps

150 375

134 335

105.2 263

94.8 237

111.6 279

106 Kilometers 265 Laps

138.4 346

108.4 271

106.8 267

116.4 274

106 265

107.2 Kilometers 268 Laps

168 420

119.2 298

90 225

116.4 291

106 180

107.2 Kilometers 247 Laps

G Watts

132.2 328

96.4 241

99.2 248

104.4 261

92.8 232

133.6 Kilometers 334 Laps

C Young

142 355

91.2 228

90 225

97.6 244

88 220

92 Kilometers 230 Laps

D Kettle

138.2 332

86.8 217

90.8 227

95.2 238

94.4 236

84.4 Kilometers 212 Laps

R H ill

128 320

80.8 202

99.2 248

70 175

95.6 239

96.6 Kilometers 241 Laps

K Fisher

164 410

91.6 229

50 125

115.2 288

49.6 124

81.2 Kilometers 203 Laps

P Gray

D Parri s

I Davis

G Pollard

T Rafferty

120 74.8 73.6 68.4 69.6 61.2 Kilometers 300 187 184 171 174 153 Laps The above group came in for Light Manual Muscle Rel axation The below group did not or had their own recovery people 141.6 112.8 104.8 101.6 98 96.4 Kilometers 354 282 262 254 245 241 Laps

G McConnel

145.6 363

110.8 277

126.4 287

113.6 284

108.4 271

106 ki lometers 265 Laps

G Audley

152.8

110.8

126.4

113.6

114.8

95.2 ki lometers

S Scanlon

140.8 352

82 205

84 210

J Timms

127.2

98.4

74.8

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Environmentally Friendly Leg Recovery-Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist Once you have done that you can achieve the kind of results as shown by the chart above without enlarging your environmental footprint The active way to help the legs recover is to learn how to work with the muscles If you can use your hands you have the tools to do the job of recovery

Quickly-easily and in an environmentally friendly way! For more information go to

http://www.aching-legs.org/environmentally_friendly_recovery_system.html

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