The Role of Endurance in Sports
There are several ways to improve your athletic performance, including endurance. This key foundation of fitness allows you to participate in sports for longer periods while making you a more competitive athlete. Without it, we simply can’t persist in physical activities and exercise our athletic skills.
At Full Potential Physical Therapy in Holland, MI, our physical therapists can work with you to improve your endurance and enhance your physical fitness and performance. In addition, we can help you prevent future injuries and treat existing ones. Call us today to learn more and get started!
Higher Endurance Allows for Optimal Performance
Think about the first time you ever went for a run. Being new to the sport, you probably couldn’t make it very far without feeling like your body needed a break. However, if you stayed consistent with running, your capabilities improved over time, allowing you to achieve longer distances without feeling fatigued. This is a perfect example of heightening your endurance.
Endurance helps tremendously in athletics by helping you stay persistent and keeping your heart, lungs, and circulatory system healthy. Essentially, the higher your level of endurance is, the stronger your performance will be.
The Importance of Endurance Training
Cardiovascular and muscular endurance are the two different factors of this essential component of sports. Once you start losing endurance and feeling tired and fatigued, new stressors are placed on the body, which interferes with physical capabilities, stamina, and mental focus.
Endurance training addresses cardiovascular and muscular health and focuses on improving your ability to keep proper form throughout physical activity. Combined with other techniques like our strength training and mobility exercises at Full Potential Physical Therapy, your body can reach new limits, and you can become a better-rounded athlete.
Improve Your Capabilities at Full Potential Physical Therapy
Curious to learn more about how you can improve your endurance? Our team of physical therapists at Full Potential Physical Therapy in Holland, MI can help you build the skills necessary to optimize your capabilities and reach your peak performance. In addition, we can help you recover from an existing injury and teach you to avoid accidents in the future.
A Better Life is Only Four Steps Away
Physical therapy can be an unfamiliar experience for many. To orient new patients to the process, we have divided their rehab journey into four segments called “The Four Phases of Getting Better.” It is important to note that while there are four phases utilized over the course of your care, they are not totally separate. They move gradually toward greater strengthening and function, which is the end goal to return confidently to the life you desire to live.1
Pain Relief
The first focus in getting better is pain relief. After your evaluation, your physical therapist will use hands-on techniques or manual therapy, light therapeutic exercise, and education on how to modify your activity and posture in order to give you more control over your pain. In this stage, modalities like ice, heat, myofascial release, electric stimulation and kinesiotape may be used.
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Improve Mobility/Flexibility
The second step in this method is to improve mobility and flexibility. Your therapist will design a progressive program of range of motion and light stretching to restore mobility and reduce pain.
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Improve Strength/Control
In the third step of this method, muscle weakness will be addressed to help you maintain the gains and momentum you achieve through phases one and two. A thorough strengthening process is the step that gives results that last, and this will prepare you for more functional training – the final step.
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Functional Training
Now that your pain is resolved and you have the necessary mobility and strength, your program can be advanced into functional training. Whether you are returning to work, returning to life after post-op rehabilitation, getting back into recreation or sports, or simply returning to the activities of daily life, this step helps ensure your success after graduation and empowers you to be confident in your abilities again.
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