PACK DE PELOTAS LACROSSE (XOOM PROJECT) - (XoomProject)

It's not all hard training, recovery measures should be part of every training program. A resource as simple as useful is the application of massage with Lacrosse balls.  Discover its full potential!

This complete pack of Lacrosse balls will help you restore mobility and prevent muscle damage.

Lacrosse ball:

Lacrosse ball effectively helps to get rid of shoulder pain, neck pain, upper and lower back pain, hip and buttocks, legs, knee pain, calf pain, ankle stiffness and Achilles heel problems, sciatica, disc problems, muscle tension or stiffness.

These lacrosse balls decrease the chances of injury, improve movement efficiency, and increase your performance and flexibility. These myofascial massage balls perfectly complement foam rollers and other mobility tools and can be used before and after workouts to promote recovery.

It works incredibly to massage trigger points for better performance in your workouts.

Double lacrosse ball:

The double lacrosse ball is used to restore the normal range of motion of the spine.

This double lacrosse ball helps restore flexibility to the spine so that it is ready to cope with your workouts.

This double ball allows you to focus on one point on the vertebra that could be the main cause of movement restriction for the entire back. It works well on the upper back, neck and scapula – the spine. 

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It is important to know that whenever there is pain that persists and incapacitates you have to go to a physiotherapist, but there are discomforts and overloads that we can treat ourselves since on certain occasions it is not possible for us to go every week to the physio. In this sense, the Lacrosse ball has become an essential within the backpack of any athlete, from runners, crossfiteros, tennis players to people who go to the weight room and want to get their maximum performance. It is a small object that takes up little space but that gives us a great benefit: relieve overloads, contractures, shortenings...  In addition, the ball will reach localized places where a foam roller does not reach.

Applying pressure massages with the ball, we will relax muscles overloaded by training and also the muscles shortened due to our postures, we will be able to relax that muscles and progressively gain more range of motion by preventing tensions from accumulating.
Due to the postures that are adopted on a day-to-day basis, anteriorization and internal rotation of the shoulders, hyperkyphosis, hyperlordosis, etc. are common and all this is accompanied by shortening and muscle restrictions that we can alleviate by treating the painful points and trigger points that appear in that musculature. An easy way to treat them is using a ball that may well be Lacrosse, baseball or tennis, everything will depend on the hardness we want to use in each part of the body.

Trigger  points (PG) are painful points that are located within a taut band of a muscle or in its fascia and cause the so-called Myofascial Pain Syndrome. These PGs can cause pain 'referred' at a distance, such as when our head hurts and is due to an active PG in the trapezius. In addition, they can cause muscle shortening and lack of forcesince the fibers that are in that taut band can not contract and relax correctly.

Criteria in the application:

We will act on the muscle performing circular, longitudinal or transverse massages with respect to the muscle fibers and also exercising an ischemic compression maintaining pressure on the pain point.

The muscle to be treated will be relaxed and slightly stretched, since contracted or too stretched will not be able to relax the muscle fibers and we will not be able to access the pain point.

We can make a movement of the area to be treated so that the muscle fibers slide on the ball, as in the case of the anterior rectus of the quadriceps or in the hamstrings.

These maneuvers will increase blood circulation in the area, cleaning it of waste substances that are generated in contractures or PG and make the pain remain.

The localized pressure also causes a microstretching of the muscle fibers that will help normalize the tone of the musculature.
The compression will be maintained about 30 'or we will endure it until we notice that the pain decreases and there we will exert more pressure until we feel pain again and endure, and so on.

We will exert a progressive pressure and that we are able to withstand without having to hold our breath due to the pain, because if we pass we will get the opposite effect to what we are looking for, we will generate more tension instead of relaxation.

As for the ideal time to apply this type of massage, we must take into account several considerations.

Before training:

These massages will help us gain mobility and contraction capacity prior to training, in this case we will not do massages and compressions of more than 30 'so as not to cause a decrease in muscle tone. You can include them as part of the warm-up, so you will not forget to do them.

After training:

Right after training is not the best time to use the ball, since it exerts a very localized pressure and as soon as we finish training our muscles have suffered micro-tears and inflammation and we could cause a rupture of fibers or bruises. After training, it is best to use a foam roller to drain and relax the muscles.

In an off-training session:

Doing specific mobility and massage sessions can be very beneficial for our body. There we can influence more in the massages and stretches, performing pressures of up to 60 or 90 seconds and we will repeat the massages 2 and up to 3 times, since the muscle will assimilate the stimulus better. The ideal is to perform the massages within a session of stretching and mobility.