Thread: Ice, Ice, Baby!
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Old Sun May 23, 2004, 09:12pm
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Originally posted by Jimgolf
You may be suffering from weekend warrior syndrome. If you are not active during the week, refereeing on the weekend can cause strain on under-utilized muscles.
At the moment, I'm okay, but I was just asking about a general routine of cooling down. So often, it's just take a quick shower and hop in the car, drive 25 minutes. Or even skip the shower, if I'm in a hurry to get home. If the drive is more than about 10 minutes (and around here, most of them are) I can barely get out of the car and walk into the house. I'm thinking some sort of cooling down routine at the school would be useful.
Juulie, (1) don't skip the shower (2)do stretching exercises for your legs since it sounds like they tend to stiffen up if you have a longer ride home and (3)consider wearing knee brace - elastic with hole cut out at kneecap. You can buy them at any pharmacy. As the season moves along you won't need knee brace anymore. This is what I do and it really helps. That way I can go 100% even if I have a full schedule (5-6 nights a week).

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