Now that we have come out of the past 2 ½ years and there seems to be light at the end of this Covid19 tunnel, people are now realising that obesity is the enemy and it resulted in many people dying during this current pandemic. We now understand the benefits of staying in shape and so now many different sporting activities have become a major part of our lives. People have been sedentary over the past couple of years and they have managed to put on quite a lot of kilos and they have lost their fitness levels. If you’re currently thinking about getting yourself back into shape and back to where you were before all of this began, then you need to start slowly in order that you don’t injure yourself while trying to get yourself back in shape.
One of the first things that you should do is to visit your local sports physiotherapy clinic to get some much needed advice of what it is that you have to do to avoid injury and to get off to the best possible start when it comes to your new workout routines. It’s going to take a great deal of perseverance and motivation on your part to get you to where you want to be, but anything is possible if you put your mind to it. If you think that visiting your physiotherapist isn’t something that is required then maybe the following benefits of doing so can help to educate you somewhat.
- It helps to improve your technique – Many people just start off in a new exercise routine and they are not doing it properly. This will result in many injuries and so in order to avoid these altogether, it makes perfect sense to make an appointment with your local sports physiotherapist and they can give you the advice about stretching that you need. Technique is incredibly important and athletes take this advice every single day of the week and so there is no reason why you shouldn’t be taking it as well.
- A specific training plan – Everyone is not the same and so we all reach our fitness goals in completely different ways. When you go to see a sports physiotherapist, he or she will create an individual training program just for you. They will make an assessment of the strengths that you have and also your weaknesses and this will help them to identify how you can get the most out of exercise and watch exercise is best for your current condition.
- For injury prevention – If you are unable to get yourself injured because you didn’t do a proper warm-up or you started off too strong then this is going to put you back a couple of weeks or more and this is something that you want to avoid at all costs. Your sports physiotherapist will advise you of the injury risks that are predominant in the particular exercise routine that you want to do and they will teach you ways how to avoid it in the first place.
As you can see, you just don’t have to go to see a sports physiotherapist only when you’re injured and they can be very useful at the beginning and throughout your whole fitness plan.
