Recovery tips?

[Offroadr]

I am curious if anyone has suggetions on how to speed up recovery time from muscle soreness.

I raced an enduro Sunday and I am stiff, sore, and bruised!  I have another one this Sunday.  I usually run on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Is this a bad idea when I am sore?  Should I just take it easy?

Eat bananas like a monkey?

 

[WoodsRider]

Offroadr - Drink a 1/2 case of beer every night, forget about working on your bike. Every meal eat McDonalds 1/4-pounders with extra-large fries and coke. Pour out 3/4 of the coke and fill it with Jim Beam. Stay up late watching old movies, go to bed around 4 A.M. wake up late for work and skip breakfast. Shift gears Saturday night, don't eat dinner, drink a whole case of beer instead. Don't go to bed, stagger around until sign-up, forget how to program your computer, throw-up just before your row leaves...wait a minute, you don't race 200 B, never mind!

See ya Sunday,
WoodsRider

 

[slowpokedennis]

Can you say old age? Drink plenty of water give your muscles a day or two then start exercising again. As long as your just sore and did't hurt anything.

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Dennis                                            Col Oh
99husqvarna wr250

 

[ButtonFly]

Stretch before your race extensively, and then AFTER also.  Stretch well, when the muscles are tighter.  Get in the hot tub after the race for an hour.  (or do not exceed 15 minutes if you have a history of heart disease, or are pregnant.  Exit the tub if feeling dizzy or lightheaded) Get a backrub from a lovely lady.  Excercise monday instead of tuesday to work the sore muscles.  You want to keep the blood flowing throught the sore muscles to clean out the acid (not lactic but....) that makes you sore.  

 

[Offroadr]

Well Woodsrider that was good for a laugh!  Thanks!

 

[Offroadr]

Woodsrider:  I do know of one person that went to a bachelor party saturday night and spent part of the enduro heaving on the side of the trail!  Can you say stupid!

No Buttonfly I don't think I am pregnant!

You guys are full of great advice!

 

[slowpokedennis]

offroadr one other thing when you go out jogging swing by the old peoples home and get some ben-gay they carry it in industrial strength, 55 gal drums. I know.

 

[Hugebear]

In addition to the great tips already posted don't forget to get a good night's sleep.  That's when most of the recovery takes place.  Also soaking sore body parts in cold water for short periods of time alternating with hot water, (but always ending with cold), works great for me.

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'99 WR400F
'00 Hayabusa

"What did that red X mean?"

 

[ButtonFly]

slowpokedennis... we could smear a lot of competitors jock straps with 55 gallons of ben-gay.  If you are as slow as me this might be our only way to get trophies

 

[sgt.timko]

Just ride some more - I've noticed that, like Buttonfly said, if you exercise the day after - even with sore muscles - the pain subsides and your muscles get used to the beating they are taking.

Pain is just weakness leaving the body...



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Tim Smith
'00 KDX220
"How do you spell relief??"

 

[slowpokedennis]

Hey Button I don't think I would want to get caught running a round the pits at a race playing with jock straps.Somebody might start spreading rumors.  

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Dennis                                            Col Oh
99husqvarna wr250

 

[Jake T]

  I've never raced before but I do snowboard and I know that after my first trip I was really sore for the next week. But as I went more and more I wasn't as sore afterwards until it got to the point where I wasn't sore at all. I'm not sure if this helps but whatever.

 

[ButtonFly]

Sgt. Timko:   WHO AHHH
slowpokedennis:  You are probably right... besides, with the way I ride they could probably do their laundry, get ready again, come out, and still beat me before I finished...  At least with moto there were people all over the track and it was harder to tell who is winning... but then they started timing me with a sundial...  

 

[sgt.timko]

Buttonfly:  GONNNNNNNNNZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

WHO AHH??

 

[slowpokedennis]

Buttonfly. You sound like my kind of rider.

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Dennis                                            Col Oh
99husqvarna wr250

 

[ButtonFly]

slowpoke... maybe we could have a "slow race".  Kind of like the DMV test for your street license.  Slowest wins... but then I would be crushed beneath my WR when it landed on me after I fell over... "I CAN"T FEEL MY LEGS, I CAN"T FEEL MY LEGS! I'VE FALLEN, AND I CAN'T GET UP".  

Sgt... you are the Sgt...  hooohaaa? woooahhh? woo hah?  broughaha? Aim High? Full Speed Ahead? Semper Phi? Not sure... I just work here...  

 

[Tennessee Thumper]

Water,rub downs,bengay,ibuprofen,ice&heat works for me.

 

[slowpokedennis]

Button I went to a race once and they told me next time I had to enter in the pw50 class. Said I might have a better chance of finishing in the top ten.

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Dennis                                            Col Oh
99husqvarna wr250

 

[Michelle]

Slowpoke: have you actually seen kids on PW50's???
Damn, they're good.
Maybe PW50's with slicks?
For racing over here, I'd have to race against the PW50's & other baby bikes, just because I'm a female. Never mind they'd kick my butt so hard.
I think the baby quads I might get ahead of (the LT50's) but then only just hehehe.

Seriously though, after a hard day's riding, the next day the best thing to do is go for a long walk or something, just to stretch the muscles back into place.

I wouldn't do full-out exercise, just a milder sort (but that's me - lazy) to stop the muscles seizing totally (old age does this too)
Michelle