Still want to play softball, play basketball, practice martial arts, hike, bike, and swim? Although these things are extremely fun and I highly recommend them for mostly everyone, they can certainly take their toll on your body, especially when combined with hard training.

When your progress slows and your body breaks down beyond repair, it’s time to reexamine your recovery and restoration protocol. Is it doing what it should?

Treat your body like a well-oiled machine and buffer it!

In his R7 training approach, every session starts with soft tissue work.

There's always someone that has had the same dilemma as you and made it out successfully.

A MUST–HAVE tool for my suit case, car, kitchen door, etc. Velcro not included.

As part of your training, you should include some tools and measures to make sure that you’re on the right track.

The b*tch of it was that I wasn’t doing anything hard when I got hurt.

Popular sporting literature such as health and fitness magazines, internet training, and sport sites as well as articles written by athletes, coaches, and physical therapists have endorsed the use of techniques such as massage, hydrotherapy, and hyperbaric oxygenation as ways of speeding up the recovery process and thus improving athletic performance.

Russians do three semesters on massage and restoration (in Kin or PE courses.) Guess how much we do here?