Just like cardio exercises, a massage - in the case of sore muscles - increases the flow of blood to the affected area, which in turn
speeds up the
recovery (Don't try this with a fracture...).
For
just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday night and Saturday morning running a warm
up pace that makes me overheat, then starting the interval workout which involves me sometimes running slower than the «warm
up pace «and watching the lithe people run away from me at incredible
speeds, then «slinky - ing «forward while they run back for me on the
recovery, watching them sprint away from me some more, and then eventually finding myself labouring
up a hill to exit the river valley at the end of the workout to find the group of speedsters waiting to fist pound it out before we run back to the shop at a cool down pace which only makes me sweat even more.