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ICWA/STARWRAP Recovery Tent at the 505 Triathalon

STARWRAP at the 505 Triathalon

What a beautiful day at Cochiti Lake Saturday. We met some new athletes who tried out the EX for some plantar fascitis and Achilles tendinitis issues.  We also met several athletes with low back & hip pain. We demonstrated how to apply starwrap using a foam roller for additional compression.  Laying laterally on the roller with the STAR Enforcer planted firmly into your QL. Absorb the pain, then begin to activate the lower back with side bends. Fun Times for you die hards.

We are teaching how much time under pressure is needed to get their tissue to an optimal state.  Turns out, it's much more than they thought. 20-30 minute blocks within 1 week on a specific tissue issue will produce noticeable results. Especially for Triathletes, we recommend a focus on recovery and regeneration that can match the time under tension your 3 sports produce in your body.  Give your body adequate positive stimulus to wage battle on your overuse and painful areas. Positive stimulus we define as stress in the form of direct pressure that will increase blood flow to a specific area. This stimulus will cause the body to adapt. Adaptation means the tissue responds to this increased blood flow by opening capillaries and veins.  As blood flows into the tissue, damaging toxic acids (hyarulonic and lactic) are removed. The fascia when stimulated can also changes states from a gel-like sticky, adhesion rife state, to a viscous, fluid state where muscles glide easily along each other. This is a state we want our tissue to find itself in.

Congratulations to STARWRAP's Athlete Lauren Thompson. 1st Place in Open Division.