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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist

Children’s Soccer Recovery Recovery of young athlete’s using an environmentally friendly recovery system Soccer is a huge sport with millions of people playing and watching it at matches and on television-the supply base of players for the professional clubs is the young childrens’ clubs that are world wide-it is the dream of many of these players to one day play for their favourite soccer team The dreams though can only be kept alive by the support of the soccer parents willingness to transport, cheer on, feed, buy sports clothing and equipment and generally care for their athletic offspring with the constant aim of helping them achieve the best they can be Keeping the young athlete playing soccer can be very expensive and time consuming for the average parent who while doing their best for the young athlete still has a life to live and money to earn to pay for it all The supporting soccer parent can help their player to keep performing through the course of their playing career and cut back on expenses by learning to look after a much forgotten area of playing-recovery No matter how much someone trains and practises, or how talented they are, this can be detrimentally affected if recovery is not quickly and efficiently achieved Soreness and stiffness aid the opposing team by compounding over a season becoming an ongoing problem to young growing bones and muscles-they do not need these holding them back and helping the opposition win matches Keeping the ‘edge’ can mean the difference between winning and losing a match-the will to win may sometimes not be good enough when stiffness is slowing the reaction time of the muscles on the soccer field To demonstrate how stiffness and fatigue can compound, we can visit a 24-hour relay event where the young athlete runs for 15 minutes, has 5 hours break and goes back for another 15 minute leg-in all they do 4 periods on the track in the 24 hours. 15 minutes of running with five hours of recovery should be enough time, yet each leg of the relay was more difficult than the last time they went on the track because the muscle were sore and stiffened up

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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist These are 2 people who have just been running for 3 days around a running track in all weathers and they have stiff legs after a few minutes of resting When the young athletes first started to come in for help with recovery, I was very surprised (I was working on adults and thought is strange that they were having problems after such a short time on the track) but treated them as I would the older runners and walkers-but I found that their muscles were tighter Fortunately the World Run Recovery System accommodated their needs to address soreness and stiffness problems-the sporting parent can easily use the same system for their young soccer players How can parents help their sporting offspring to recover and keep their sporting edge? It’s not what you do but the way you do it that counts While muscle injury and problem fixing needs to be able to work on the muscles to have any effect-Recovery requires work with them to be effective Why is this so?

In the adolescent athlete, the bones are growing at a faster rate than the muscles can stretch to fit them-even without doing sport and subjecting them to extra stresses, the muscles are taut like the strings on a guitar or violin Like the strings, if they have too much tension placed on them, they can snap and they have to be replaced-unfortunately it is not so easy to replace the muscles-and if they are damaged during these early years of sport, then their career is over before it has started To use invasive work as normally used on the young athletes already stressed muscles is going to put them in danger of being overloaded with too much tension being places on the muscle insertions-this can create a situation similar to the guitar or violin strings Recovery

As already discussed, muscles that are recovering do not need working on-they need working with-once the parents accept this, it opens up a range of options that they can use to assist in their sporting child’s recovery, and do this without putting the child at risk of muscle injury Ultra athletes suffer from sore feet, sore legs, swollen ankles, stiffness, wasted muscles, muscle cramps, tiredness, mental fatigue, restless legs, sore skin, night pains, muscle spasm, muscle wastage, swollen ankles, hyperthermia, hypothermia, temper tantrums, vomiting, food sensitivity, allergies, rashes, loss of judgement-and that is the good part Yet I deal with these on a constant basis when at the events I go to-not with the really medical stuff of course there are doctors o call for those, but with the muscular and muscle recovery that comes from the abuse they take on the track Aching legs fatigued muscles and recovery The young athlete and ultra marathoners both have the same thing in common-how to recover from their fatigued muscles quickly, without causing injury and the quickest most effective Copyright 2008 Michael Gillan http://kidsweb.aching-legs-relief.com

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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist way of doing this is simply to work the calf muscle pump so that the output of used blood equals the input of fresh blood into the muscles To stop the muscles fatiguing, fresh oxygen and nutrient filled blood has to keep being supplied to the muscles-but when the muscles are fatigued they can’t work at facilitating or supplying their own needs The secret to 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.

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

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

Recovery from leg fatigue or ongoing leg maintenance Copyright 2008 Michael Gillan http://kidsweb.aching-legs-relief.com

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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist

The World Run Recovery System

Here I am giving a demonstration of leg recovery in Denmark using Light Manual Muscle Relaxation More details and references on ultra marathon can be found on my websites How can the sporting parents (and the young athlete) benefit?

Because the muscles are being worked with they are actually doing the work-this means that the skills needed to do the recovery after training and competition do not have to be as great or as complicated as when they are being worked on Nothing is being fixed nor is any attempt being made to repair anything All that is happening is that the body is repairing itself-we are just facilitating it’s ability to do that by increasing circulation to the muscles

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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist Below is a chart from when I discovered working with the muscles rather than on them shows how much things did improve for the runners and walkers If these figures are translated into recovery speed for the person with aching legs they would be very happy 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

61.2 Kilometers 120 74.8 73.6 68.4 69.6 300 187 184 171 174 153 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 Copyright 2008 Michael Gillan

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Children’s after Sports Recovery Michael Gillan Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist

Quickly-easily and in an environmentally friendly way! The World Run Recovery System is a simple system that is easy to use without the need for equipment other than the hands Resource Box

Michael Gillan is an Ultra Marathon Recovery Specialist who has been a masseur around many ultra long distance events both in Australia and internationally since he was a student in 1993 In 1995 while working at a 6 day run, he changed the approach to recovery of the athletes from the conventional way of working on the muscles using the hands and fingers to increase muscle blood circulation, to working with the muscles and making them work on themselves The results from this changeover can be seen on the Coburg result sheet on page 5 In 1996 Michael went to the Nanango 1000 Mile 16 day event where it was tested and helped the worlds 4-5 and 11th to achieve their distances Other notable events the World Run Recovery System was tested on was World Run 1 with Jesper Olsen www.worldrun.org and the World Run 2 training camp in Denmark in 2007

Aching legs should always be checked out by a medical professional before doing anything to and with them because there are many medical reasons why they may be aching-see a physician first If you want more details go to my website at

http://kidsweb.aching-legs-relief.com/soccer_player_leg_fatigue.html

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