20 minutes in ice! Sounds like the cure would be more painful than the initial injury/fatigue...I do nothing before my runs.
After my long runs(haven't had a long run in a long time) I submerge my feet/legs from the knees down into a pail of very icy water for twenty minutes and my legs feel better than new after the icing.
20 minutes in ice! Sounds like the cure would be more painful than the initial injury/fatigue...
Don't you guys read the SocDoc stuff: Stretching is for Bozos!
My real problem - one of many - the skin around the outside of my heals and side of my grand toes take turns cracking.
After I listened to this advice I developed PF for the first time in my life which I haven't been able to get rid of in almost a year. I now firmly believe there's a time and a place for stretching.Don't you guys read the SocDoc stuff: Stretching is for Bozos!
+1I do not do anything special before my regular runs because I can start slow and let the whole body loosen up gradually by itself.
Don't you guys read the SocDoc stuff: Stretching is for Bozos!
Gentile, do you realize how lucky you are that stretching makes you feel worse? If I don't stretch I get all knotted up so bad I can barely walk.I never do anything for pre-runs, I just hit the road running sometimes i start slow, sometimes I can hit it hard right away. All depends how my body feels. I never did anything for post-run, but now I hose my legs down with cold water. I got this idea from a movie that DNEchris posted on here called "On the Run" In the movie Jack Foster was hosing his legs down with cold water, it made sense to me so I tried it. For one it feels so good, and does help with recovery. The only thing I won't be doing that now since it's starting to get cold.
As far as stretching I never do it, it makes my body feel worse.
Don't you guys read the SocDoc stuff: Stretching is for Bozos!
Oh, shower in the morning...maybe that is why no one wants to be around me at work!The shock happens in the first three seconds after that it feels heavenly.
You should use some kind of moisturizer for your cracking feet every night before bed time or right after your shower in the morning, that is if you shower in the mornings
What do you think? I believe I am going to go all natural and use olive oil on my feet at night.
P.S. I do stretch my hamstrings after running.