Sports massage and recovery
Maximise your recovery to get back to full performance faster.
Why recovery matters
If you’re not focusing on recovery after sessions or within your rehab, you may be impacting your competitive edge. Insufficient recovery can lead to fatigue, reduced performance and a higher risk of injury.
After a race, competition or heavy training block, your body is dealing with accumulated metabolite build-up, muscle microtrauma, inflammation and nervous system fatigue. How you manage the hours and days that follow directly affects how quickly you return to full performance – and how your next block of training goes.
Evidence shows that physical recovery interventions can significantly reduce delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), fatigue and inflammatory markers when applied after intense exercise.
Sports massage applies structured manual pressure to soft tissue – targeting muscles, fascia and connective tissue to reduce tension, improve flexibility and support the mechanical clearance of metabolic by-products. Evidence consistently shows sports massage to be one of the most effective recovery modalities, reducing delayed onset muscle soreness and lowering inflammatory markers after exercise.
Normatec compression boots use dynamic air compression to move through five distinct zones of your legs in sequence, mimicking the natural muscle pumps of the venous system. Evidence shows that compression is one of the best supported modalities for post exercise recovery. It enhances venous return, improves metabolic clearance, and accelerates cardiovascular recovery after sport by promoting circulation to recovering tissue.
BFR training uses calibrated cuffs to partially restrict venous blood flow during exercise, creating metabolic stress in the muscles and promoting muscle growth and strength. Research shows the effectiveness of BFR at loads as low as 20-40% of your one rep maximum. This makes it uniquely valuable when high-load training is not appropriate: in the days after a race, during injury rehabilitation, or post-surgery when tissue stress must be limited.
Compex uses Electrical Muscular Stimulation (EMS) to stimulate muscle contraction through surface electrodes, targeting the muscle fibres directly through motor nerve activation. In a recovery context, NMES increases local blood flow, reduces muscle pain and accelerates the removal of exercise-induced metabolites. In a rehabilitation context, it maintains or rebuilds muscle activation where voluntary contraction is limited or inhibited.
Two packages
£60
45 minute session
Course of 5 – £270 £300
Save £30 · 5 x 45-min sessions · structured programme
£80
75 minute session
Course of 5 – £360 £400
Save £40 · 5 x 75-min sessions · structured programme
Book a recovery session at The Fitness Experts, Harwell Campus. Clinical screening included on your first visit. No referral needed.
