Recovery processes

• RECOVERY PROCESSES

  • Ice baths - constrict blood vessels and flush waste products, reduces swelling
  • Once out of ice bath, muscles warm - increased blood flow improves healing process
  • Intense exercise causes tiny tears in muscle fibers - causes muscles to repair and strengthen
• MASSAGES

  • Massage - involves rubbing muscles and joints with hands - reduces pain
  • Encourages blood flow - prevents muscle fatigue - prevents DOMS
  • Reduces swelling - causes fatigue in exercised muscles
• BODY SHAPE

  Body shape may change

  1. Changes to structure of body
  2. Regular exercise reduces weight of body
  3. Anaerobic exercise increases size of muscles - hypertrophy
• CHANGES IN CoF

  • Increases flexibility - more elastic muscles
  • Increases muscular endurance - muscles undergo more contractions - allow muscles to endure exercise for longer
  • Increases speed - rapid anaerobic exercise
  • Improves CVE
• • Stroke volume increases - bradycardia reduce to produce same resting cardiac output
• • Rehydration - replacing fluids lost during exercise
  • Energy and glucose needed to be replaced by consuming carbohydrates