tricks of the trades

My post today is for all of you, especially the sportspersons. These are to keep your sports injury slate clean or prevent a recurrence if you have injured before
Some of the tips are:

- Keep your feet as flat as possible during stretches to avoid twisting your knees
- Practice safe landing when you jump; always land with your knees bent
- Warm up before vigorous exercises like running, and even before les vigorous ones like golfing
- Always do warm up stretching exercises before high-impact sports. Target the Achilles tendon, hamstring and quadriceps areas, stretch and hold.
- Cool down when you’ve done. For instance after running on the treadmill, slow down to a walk for about five minutes. Let your pulse come down gradually and your breathing steady before coming to a full stop
- Wear the right shoes for the right sport. Make sure they fit you nice and snug. Get one that provides shock absorption, stability is advised especially if you are doing vigorous sports.
- Avoid bending knees past 90o when doing knee bends
- Avoid running on hard surface like concrete or asphalt. They could be detrimental to your knee and ankle joints. Run on flat surface too, as sprinting uphill increases stress on your legs and Achilles tendon

I think that’ll for now. If you have other tips leave it in Comments
Bye.

# posted by polaris @ 4:47 PM