Rolfing® Structural Integration Improves Athletic Performance
Rolfing is useful for athletics, sports, dancing, or practically any physical vocation as a way to help improve performance.
People use Rolfing to improve their performance through:
- ✓ Increased flexibility and balance
- ✓ Better breathing
- ✓ Better stamina and endurance
- ✓ Shorter recovery time
- ✓ Reduce the wear and tear of exercise and competition
Rolfing allows your body to reorient to your center of gravity the best way it can. Athletic clients report that finding their center of balance gives them a competitive advantage, both mentally and physically.
Rolfing profoundly affects an athlete’s range of motion as well as breathing capacity. Your movements become easier and more coordinated because you now have a stable base and better body awareness.
Rolfing Helps Improve Sports Performance
Rolfing has a long and successful track record in sports - both amateur and professional.
Certified Rolfers have worked as part of the USOC Sports Medicine program team for the USA Olympians. A few examples are for the Women's and Men’s Cross Country Ski Team, the Women's Diving, Women's Figure Skating, Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, and more.
Many professional athletes have also experienced Rolfing for improved performance.
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Rolfing: Bodywork To Give Runners a Fitness Edge
Rolfing is becoming a well known path to increased lung capacity, pain-free glutes and knees that can take the pounding of running on the roads and trails of the modern world. There are client experiences of how Rolfing is known to help with endurance for the grueling 26.2 mile run of the marathoner.
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Rolfing Plays An Active Role in Recovering From Injuries
Sports and other athletic activities can be hard on bodies, especially if there are underlying structural problems. Muscle and joint injuries can be improved to help with recovery, as well as decrease discomfort. A 10-series with a Certified Advanced Rolfer can help those who have experienced physical limitations due to sports injuries.
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Rolfing Addresses Improved Biomechanics
Rolfing® promotes biomechanical efficiency is by eliminating fascial restrictions and compensatory patterns that limit athletic performance. One of the goals of Rolfing is to use the fascia, or connective tissues, of the body to aid in the proper alignment of posture and biomechanics. For example, the golf swing can be broken down into how you adjust your elbow or wrist position. A sprinter’s starting position can also be examined in a similar way. Rolfers® can take into account biomechanical aspects such as: step length, toe hinge, plantar flexion, angle of lower leg at foot contact, and hamstrings flexibility to improve biomechanics.
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Artistic Efforts Where Rolfing Enhances Performance
Dance And Rolfing Are Long Term Partners
Dancers are interested in the process of Rolfing® because it provides them with a different experience of their body than their daily training. They regain circulation, flexibility, fluidity, lightness and confidence that they can integrate into their technical and artistic work.
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Rolfing is Music To The Ears
Musicians are not commonly thought of as athletes. But in fact they perform repetitive motions very fast or many hours a day in intense concentration. It is a high-performance sport and can be extremely demanding physically and mentally.
Musicians experience pinched nerves, paralysed fingers, stiff neck, muscle spasms, Singing careers end too early because of overstretched or overstrained vocal cords and much more.
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