I have been starting to play regularly, and as I usually play by myself, I will end up just drilling certain moves. As everyone here knows, having a good training session, or a good session in general, is an intense workout. However, whenever I start to over-exert myself, I'll get kind of soreness on the inside part of my lower calf (the soleus, I think).
I first became aware of this soreness because it quickly escalated to pain when I started to get into running a couple years ago. To help my running fitness, I purchased a heart rate monitor (HRM) from Suunto that included a feature where it prescribed workouts with target times and intensities. The very first time I used my HRM, I started to feel my inner calf, but I looked at my watch and it basically said "slow down!". I followed the schedule generated by my watch, and remained injury free.
What my watch does is to prevent overexertion, a common ailment that holds, and shuts down, a lot of athletes back in many sports. Well, to get back to footbag, I was starting to have numerous intense sessions each week, and I felt that soreness creeping in again. Now, I am following my watch's schedule, and applying it to footbag to prevent any overuse injuries from footbag. It's hard to take it easy at times, but it pays off in the long run.
I guess I'm kind of putting a cautionary note out there about overuse injuries in footbag since it is such a high intensity sport. I would be interested to hear what other people have to say about it, as well as using HRMs while playing footbag!
Heart Rate Monitors to Prevent Overuse Injuries
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- Avenging Disco Godfather
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- Egyptian Footgod
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Hrm is irrelavent to shredding. DUH
So if it beeps because youre too high youre supposes to slow down? Nonsense, use the hrm to train in nonfootbag stuff like running or bicycling. Then use the improved conditioning you built up to shred like a madman. The limiting factor Ive seen in players who dont achieve strong guiltless games is that were wimpy- need more conditioning beyond just footbag.
So if it beeps because youre too high youre supposes to slow down? Nonsense, use the hrm to train in nonfootbag stuff like running or bicycling. Then use the improved conditioning you built up to shred like a madman. The limiting factor Ive seen in players who dont achieve strong guiltless games is that were wimpy- need more conditioning beyond just footbag.