Sports Conditioning
Ballet, golf, tennis, running, yoga.
The reasons for starting differ, but the wish to keep going is the same.
Deep thermal care at a women-only salon in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto.
Cera works with the deep thermal care of INDIBA.
Born in Barcelona, Spain, and taken up in the settings of top athletes and professional sport around the world.
Football clubs and tennis academies overseas, along with basketball, athletics, cycling and swimming: it has been taken up across competitive settings worldwide. In Europe it has been called the guardian of athletes.
It is also used with racehorses and in veterinary care for dogs and cats. That it has been used with those who cannot describe how much is enough says something about the character of this technology.
Forty years since it began, with more than 300 scientific papers and clinical studies published. In Japan it has been adopted by acupuncture and osteopathic practices.
Note: the fields listed above are introduced based on information published by INDIBA. They do not indicate a relationship with any particular athlete, team or facility. Cera provides treatment for aesthetic purposes and always adjusts output to your condition.
Why Now
A lesson once a week. A round once a month. A run in the morning. The more consistently you keep at it, the more easily your own body becomes something to deal with later.
If your child competes, all the more so. Costumes for the recital, driving to matches, the washing, the parents' rota. By the time their performance or their game is over, there is no room left to think about your own body.
Cera is a place for that later. Please use deep thermal care as time that lets you keep going.
By Activity
Even with the same idea of warming the body, the areas that feel heavy change from sport to sport. In the counselling we ask about the movements you repeat before we begin.
Ankles, the arch of the foot, toes and the sole are worked in fine detail, the lower the more so. Then the hips and groin in turnout, and the lower back in arabesque and cambré. And the shoulders, arms and wrists that hold port de bras. For weeks when lessons pile up, and around recitals and competitions.
Hip hop, jazz, cheer, rhythmic gymnastics. Jumping and landing brings the knees, calves and ankles into it; floor work the wrists and shoulders; twisting the lower back. Around recitals and contests.
With the swing repeated again and again, the lower back and the back are said to come up most often. Because the movement favours one side, the neck, shoulder, elbow and wrist follow. A stiff shoulder blade is often said to shift the load to the neck. For the days after a round.
Hitting, stopping, changing direction, over and over. The shoulder, arm, elbow and wrist on the swinging side, and the calves and ankles of the driving leg. The lower back in the rotation too. So that two lessons a week can continue next year as well.
One movement, repeated for a long time. Shins, calves and the back of the thighs after a run, with the knees and soles taking the landing. For weeks when you extend the distance, or build up towards a race such as the Kyoto Marathon.
Women's football, women's baseball and softball. A sports clinic survey reports the foot and knee in football, and the shoulder and elbow in baseball. For weeks of back-to-back matches, or after a training camp.
Jumping, landing and sharp changes of direction. Calves, thighs, soles, ankles and knees. The lower back is also often reported in volleyball. Plus the arm and shoulder of a shot or a spike, and the fingers that handle the ball. Around tournaments, or when gym practice increases.
For anyone who has felt a pose refuse to settle while the body is still cold. Hips, the area around the shoulder blades, and the wrists that carry your weight. In winter, or before an early class, as time to warm through from deep down.
The descent concentrates the load in the legs. The front of the thighs, knees, calves and soles the day after coming down, and the shoulders and neck that carried the pack. For those who walk the mountains of Kyoto, as time before the next weekend.
Note: the areas listed for each sport draw on general tendencies published in sports clinic outpatient surveys and by sports equipment makers. Where you actually feel it differs from person to person. Sports not listed here are welcome too. Please tell us in the notes field when you book, or during the counselling.
Where & How
This is the part that matters most in the counselling. Choose whichever comes closest, and we will work it out together from there.
| Where it shows | In what way | Common in |
|---|---|---|
| Shins & calves | Tightness after a run / heaviness by evening / hard to the touch | Running, ballet |
| Thighs (front & back) | Heaviness after a descent / hard to lengthen out | Hiking, running |
| Around the hips | Catching as you start to move / a blocked feeling as you lift the leg | Ballet, yoga |
| Ankles, arch & soles | Stiffness first thing / tightness across the arch and toes / heaviness after a day on your feet | Ballet, dance, tennis |
| Around the knees | Awkwardness on stairs / catching as you bend and straighten | Hiking, running |
| Lower back & back | Heaviness on one side only / tightness after arching movements | Golf, ballet |
| Shoulders, neck & arms | Heaviness on the swinging side / heaviness after holding the arms up / a hard line down the neck | Tennis, golf, baseball |
| Elbows, wrists & fingers | Tightness after gripping / wrists that do not move freely / cold fingertips | Golf, ballet, ball sports |
| All over | Feeling cold / heaviness at the turn of the season / somehow harder to move | Every sport |
It is fine if you cannot put it into words.
Somehow it bothers me is a perfectly good place to start.
In Between
Nothing in particular to worry about. Let's keep an eye on it for a while. There are times when you come home having heard that, and a feeling still stays with you that nobody else can see.
That feeling is usually right. You are the only one who moves through the day in that body.
What Cera takes on is those days. Warming time is woven in, and you go on building the body that keeps going. If a doctor is following your progress, please come once you have their permission.
Timing
Weeks when practice increases towards the day itself. Chosen by those who would rather not start moving with a cold body. We recommend asking once your date is confirmed.
The period when tightness and heaviness are most noticeable. As time to sit with your body once, before the next season begins.
Without a date pressing on you, it is easier to come regularly. Winter, when the cold is noticeable, also falls in this period.
Note: a comfortable pace differs with your condition and with your competitive season. We will suggest something that does not push you.
Why INDIBA
Cera works with deep thermal care using 0.448MHz radiofrequency. Rather than sending heat in from a machine, heat is generated inside the body, and that is what characterises this technology.
It is described as reaching 6 to 12cm into the body, so it arrives differently from warming the surface. For those who would rather choose by how the warmth arrives than by how firmly they are pressed.
Manual techniques can be combined depending on your condition and your preference. We will suggest something suited to your body on the day.
Cera is an authorised INDIBA Japan salon.
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Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, close to Kyoto Imperial Palace | Women only, fully private, by appointment
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