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An athlete might notice that his or her muscles or joints are sore after exercising, which can cause a lot of pain, and hinder his or her athletic ability. Soreness after working out or playing sports is fairly common, and can happen to an athlete regardless of age or athletic ability. In order for an athlete to continue participating in sports or exercise programs, he or she must treat the muscle soreness immediately once it develops.

Here are three ways that an athlete can treat exercise soreness, which can help him or her resume normal activities within days.

Keep Moving

An athlete that is experiencing soreness after exercise should keep moving, which is one of the best treatment options available. If an athlete notices that his or her muscles are sore after exercise, he or she should not just go in and sit on the couch for the next few days, since this can cause the muscles to stiffen up. If an athlete keeps moving, he or she is more likely to notice a decrease in the discomfort, because moving can actually decrease the joint inflammation. An athlete should not be going out and participating in intense sports, but he or she should make an effort to take a 10 minute walk at least twice a day, which can keep the muscles flexible during the soreness.

Apply Heat and Ice at Regular Intervals

An athlete should also make sure to apply heat and ice to the area of the body where the soreness is occurring, and this should be done at least three times each day. In the first few days after the soreness has started, an athlete should be using a cold ice compress on the affected area, but he or she should only keep the ice on for 20 minutes at a time. Once the first few days of soreness have passed, an athlete should begin using heat compresses around the sore areas, which can help increase blood circulation, and decrease the discomfort or pain. Applying heat and ice to the sore areas can help treat the muscles or joints where the pain is coming from, and can also help alleviate inflammation or swelling around the area. It might also feel good for an athlete to take a hot bath after the first few days of soreness, which can provide relief to the entire body.

Get a Sports Massage

An athlete can also get a sports massage, which can help alleviate soreness after exercising, and can help him or her feel refreshed. Sports massages are great because the professional can target specific areas on the body, and also provide a more general massage to soothe muscles. If an athlete notices that the soreness is in the back, then he or she should focus the sports massage on this specific area. Sports massages can relieve tension, decrease pain and inflammation, and can also prevent spasms from occurring. An athlete should get a sports massage within the first couple of days after noticing the soreness, and should continue to get the massages weekly, in order to prevent further soreness down the road. If an athlete decides to get a sports massage, he or she can expect to have increased flexibility, and he or she will be more relaxed overall.

Jeanne Rose worked as a dietary clerk for three years in a hospital, went to vocational school for Allied Health, and obtained certification in nurse assisting.

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By: TRAVIS FAIN | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: February 03, 2012 Updated: February 03, 2012 - 3:52 PM

In a trailer behind Ward Elementary School, students may be doing two of the best things they can for their future: reading and exercising.

Since 2009 the school has collected donated exercise bicycles for a program called "Read and Ride." Teachers bring in classes, usually 15 minutes at a time, to burn off energy and read donated magazines propped up on book holders attached to the bikes.

Some weeks no one comes in, said school counselor Scott Ertl, who came up with the idea and oversees the program. Other weeks - especially the rainy ones 20 classes use the bikes, he said.

"So many (students) associate reading with sitting at their desk," fourth-grade teacher Katie Garcia said recently, as her class pedaled away. "It kind of opens their eyes that they can pull out a book and read anywhere."

These blended exercise-learning programs appear to be rare in the United States, and Ward Elementary's program is the only one in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district. One teacher at Kernersville Middle School sits students on exercise balls instead of chairs, but that's about it for in-class workouts, said Nancy Sutton, health and physical education specialist for the district.

But data – albeit limited data -- from similar programs suggest they can make a massive difference, not only with student health, but with education.

A Canadian teacher named Allison Cameron put exercise bikes and treadmills in her high school classroom in 2007. Three days a week Cameron split language arts classes into 20 minutes of exercise and 20 minutes of regular teaching.

Sometimes students would read as they exercised, but often they'd just chat or listen to music, she said.

The other two days of the week Cameron added pushups and situps to math classes, she said. All this exercise was in addition to regular physical education classes at the school, and the results "blew me out of the water," Cameron said.

Body mass indexes went down and test scores went up, particularly in writing, according to data posted on Cameron's website. An eighth-grade class keeping to Cameron's "Movement Matters" program improved its writing test scores 245 percent over a school year, she said.

Another eighth-grade class at the school, which didn't do the program, saw its writing test scores go down over the same period, she said.

"The only thing different in these groups of students' day was that language arts was replaced by Movement Matters (for) 20 minutes, three times a week," Cameron said in an email. "While the students of the participating group were exercising, the other group was spending the entire 40-minute Language Arts period on academics."

Cameron said participating students also behaved better and had fewer sick days. And as she exercised alongside them, Cameron said students "let their guards down, and this brand new relationship started to form."

Cameron said the program was so obviously successful that, at her principal's suggestion, she stopped keeping statistics and focused on expanding it. She has since established similar programs at hundreds of schools in Canada, she said.

In the United States, Ward Elementary's "Read and Ride" program seems to be one of the first of its kind. Ertl said he's looked online and talked the program up at national conferences without hearing of many similar ones.

He hasn't kept data on student test scores, and Ward's physical education teacher said she couldn't draw any conclusions about its effect on health.

But Ward's program is completely voluntary, and thus hard to quantify. Teachers have to take time away from regular lessons to let their students ride, and many have not embraced the concept, Ertl and Sutton said.

Many are concerned that the burst of energy children get when they start cycling will make them harder to control when it's time to return to class, but research shows the opposite, Sutton said. Other teachers may be worried about losing instruction time to exercise, Ertl said.

Russell Jones Elementary School in Rogers, Ark., has a more regimented program than Ward Elementary's, but school physical education teacher Lowell Ratzlaff said he believes the school got the idea for the program from Ertl.

Ratzlaff said he had two fourth-grade classes reading and cycling three days a week. Each of those classes averaged 113 to 118 points growth in state reading benchmarks, he said. Classes that didn't participate in the program averaged 71 to 79 points growth, he said.

"Anytime you do anything in a school like that, there are a lot of variables," Ratzlaff said. "But we didn't do anything different with them, other than the ride to read."

Naperville Central High School in Illinois found similar results, according to an ABC News report in April 2010. That school moved physical education to the start of the school day and put stationary bicycles in classrooms. Reading scores have nearly doubled, and math scores are up "by a factor of 20," ABC News reported.

Broader scientific research has drawn a direct line between exercise and brain function. Harvard Medical School professor John Ratey has written extensively on the subject, saying exercise makes the human brain "more ready to learn." Another study found that mice exercising on treadmills had increased blood flow to the part of their brains associated with the production of new brain cells.

Which means that it's entirely possible 10-year-old Wanya Martin, a fourth grader at Ward Elementary, was directionally correct when he offered this assessment of the school's Read and Ride program: "Helps with my brain muscle."

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For more information: Ward Elementary School's Read and Ride program has a website at: http://www.kidsreadandride.com/. The Canadian high school programs described are discussed at http://www.4yourbenefitness.com/.

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New Study on Resistance Training Supports that Fit Yummy Mummy's New Kettlebell Training Program May Improve Quality of Life for Moms

Elizabethtown, KY (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Holly Rigsby, founder of Fit Yummy Mummy, launches new kettlebell training program for Moms.

Exercise programs that utilize resistance training, are known to have positive effects on health. For example, according to the Journal of Women & Aging, after an eight-week strength training program women experienced an improved quality of life.

"Significant improvements in quality of life, upper body strength, and lower body strength were observed,” the study’s authors claimed. “Resistance exercise three days a week improved quality of life in women, and these improvements were not influenced by age.”

Quality of life and exercise have long been linked. This study could benefit women by showing the benefits of strength training, specifically. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, only 21 percent of women strength train two or more times a week.

New moms in particular stand to benefit from strength training. “I get a lot of women who come to me looking for ways to lose weight after having a baby,” says Holly Rigsby, founder of Fit Yummy Mummy and busy mom fat loss coach.

“I find that new moms benefit best from strength training, which is why I have developed a new at-home kettlebell program for moms - Kettlebells for Busy Moms.” Rigsby explained, “Kettlebells offer a convenient way to do total body strength training.” Kettlebells are a type of weight that can be used for a wide variety of movements.

Kettlebells are usually no bigger than a bowling ball, and can be used almost anywhere. Busy moms hoping to burn fat after having a baby stand to gain from kettlebell training. Strength training workouts with kettlebells have been shown to help the body burn calories for hours after the workout.

“The best workouts for moms are really the same ones that work for all women,” Rigsby says. Indeed, like the strength training programs in the study, kettlebell workouts improve upper- and lower-body strength. The freedom of motion they offer also help with flexibility.

Whether for new moms or women of any age, strength training can improve quality of life and help with weight loss. For women looking to achieve these goals, consider kettlebells for your strength training program.

For more information on Holly Rigsby’s Kettlebells for Busy Moms Product, visit http://www.kettlebellsforbusymoms.com.

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