You know I've never had a massage... wife has been trying to get me to go for the last 10 years.. I get one free massage a month with my health plan.. Just can't get over the touchy touchy...
Then I watch video's on youtube with old retired lifters/fighters and see how a true deep tissue massage works.. Then I want one.. Then I think about laying on a table nearly naked with an unknown person rubbing me.. Then I don't want it..
You are missing out. It wasn’t until I did deep tissue before all my issues went away. Physio, chiro and at home stretching just doesn’t get in there the same way.
btw, at the start you won’t be thinking, oooh someone is rubbing me, you’ll be thinking, holy fuck this hurts like fucking hell.
‘Then once the muscke starts to become unknotted you won’t get pain, but it’s not like a massage your wife does. They use their elbows, palms thumbs locked and torture you.
the first time she ground thru my pecs, I almost tapped out, I had not had pain like that for the length of time as she pushed ever before. I almost asked her to stop, but kept saying, I’ll wait, maybe in a second it will get better, it didn’t but I kept putting off asking her to stop by think this.
Trust me you’ll be so happy.
At first go every two weeks for 6 months, pay for the extra, onice a month with stretching at home will work, but at the start, every two weeks, or weekly.
‘’I went weekly for 3 months then every 2 weeks for a year, now once a month.
good ones will be booked months in advance. Ask if they strip thru the length of the muscle or use trigger points. You want one that strips thru the muscle.
Just trust me on this,. You will thank me later. Key is to go often enough. No one ever does then they say it wasn’t worth it. Remember your muscles have been knotted for years, it takes time to train them.