Sports Massage for Peak Performance

by Gregory Pike

Sports massage has come into its own as a vital tool for serious athletes. Recent advances in sports medicine have proven conclusively that preperformance massage can give athletes a competitive edge by improving endurance and flexibility, and that postperformance and maintenance massage can decrease muscle recovery time and help reduce injuries. Today, sports massage is a growing trend, with boutiques prospering in every major city and sports franchises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060951672
• ISBN13: 9780060951672
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Written for the Layman athlete

Sports Massage For Peak Performance is a manual written for athletes who wish to use massage to enhanse thier physical performance in athletics. It's written in easy to understand laymens terms rather than medical and technical language. The main focus is on self-massage with Sweedish techniques and streching, with some attention paid to massage with a partner. Black and White pictures demonstrate the massage moves fairly clearly, and text sections clearly explain what to massage, and what the massage is doing to the muscles.This book, unlike similar works for the layman, covers conditions in which you should *not* massage right at the start, which is important.*Massage Therapists*: If you are a Massage Therapist, this can be a good book to reccomend to your clients who wish to use massage between professional sessions. However, all the material contained within would have been basic study in any massage school, so not something you would need.