Faster recovery, fewer niggles, better range. For runners, lifters, climbers, dancers and anyone who asks a lot of their body.
Travel included across my local areas. Other locations on request — a travel fee applies.
Sports massage targets the muscle groups your training loads most. Before an event it is brisk and preparatory; after, it is about flushing, releasing and restoring length so you recover sooner and train again with less stiffness.
Because I also coach movement, I will tell you when what you are feeling is a massage problem and when it is a loading or mobility problem — and what to do about either.
We talk through your training week and where you feel it.
Deep, specific work on the loaded tissue — calves, hips, glutes, shoulders — whatever your sport demands.
Assisted stretch and a couple of drills to take into your next session.
Calves, hamstrings, hip flexors and ITB-adjacent structures take a rhythmic hammering. Fortnightly sports massage through a training block keeps stride mechanics honest and flags the hot spots — the calf that's a week from pulling — while they're cheap to fix.
Heavy pressing and pulling build dense, restricted tissue through lats, pecs, forearms and glutes. Sports massage restores the glide and overhead range that lets you keep positions strong — shoulders especially thank you.
Show schedules are training loads with costumes. I time deep work outside the 48-hour performance window and come to the studio or theatre, so recovery fits the run instead of fighting it.
Pre-event stimulation
Brisk, light work in the 48 hours before competition — tissue awake, nothing structurally changed.
Post-event flushing
Moderate-depth circulatory work in the DOMS window to reduce soreness and restore range sooner.
Deep specific work
Between events: focused treatment of the muscle groups your sport loads hardest.
Movement screening
A coach's eye on how you move — I'll tell you when it's a massage problem and when it's a loading problem.
Both work, for different reasons. Before an event: lighter, brisk, 24–48 hours out. After: deeper, within a day or two, to speed recovery.
Sports work is firm but it should never make you brace. I work to the edge of what is useful, not past it — tell me and I adjust.
Assessment-led treatment for pain, tension and injury.
Deep tissue work followed by guided PNF stretching.
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