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While extreme athletes are in awesome shape and in general heal faster than the general human being. Keep in mind that you are NOT superman. The healing process still takes time and refusing to acknowledge this process can leave the body in extreme pain.

After an injury occurs there are 3 phases that the body goes through:

1. The Inflammatory Phase: This stage lasts up to 36 hours and is the body’s defenses protecting the injured tissue. Special cells are mobilized to stop bleeding and prevent further injury and then to start the healing process.

2. The Proliferative Phase: This stage can be from 48 hours to 2 weeks. This is the time that new tissue is being built to replace or strengthen the damaged area(s).

3. The Remodeling Phase: Lasting 2 – 6 weeks, the body reshapes and strengthens the new tissue. This phase is the most critical, because this is the time when extreme athletes will start pushing themselves too much and re-injure themselves. Remember that the injury is not at full strength right away and you must ease yourself back into extreme exercising.

Always remember to check with your physician before beginning any treatment regimen. However, generally with any soft tissue injury, you will want to apply ice to the area for the first 24 – 48 hours and take ibuprofen (or other anti-inflammatory) to stop inflammation. After the first 48 hours, you can apply heat to speed the regeneration of the tissues. After about a week, start light stretching and very light training on the injured area. Gradually increase your workload as tolerated, but stop immediately with any sharp pain and give the area a few days rest.

It is in our nature as extreme competitors and athletes to want to push ourselves to our maximum limits. If for no other reason, than to just see if we can do it. There are days when we can go until we literally vomit just because we enjoy the torture. Keep in mind though, that in keeping that kind of a pace, it is inevitable that we will be injured. The human body just was not made to keep that kind of rigorous routine for extended periods of time. When injury does occur, we need to force ourselves to rest and allow for proper healing to happen. If we don’t, we will cut our enjoyment of hardcore fitness short. Pushing an injured ankle, knee or back will eventually cause irreparable damage and then you will be forced to live with unwanted pain and the loss of the ability to push your body to extremes.

Good luck! And remember, while “NO PAIN, NO GAIN” is our motto. We need to realize when that pain is no longer creating gain, but causing more harm.

Adam Weddle – I have been doing extreme athletics for most of my adult life, approx. 15 years. Currently I work in emergency medicine. My current exercise routine is a rotating schedule of Insanity, P90X and Crossfit. As time allows, I occasionally enjoy fitting in a SealFit routine.

Please check out my Extreme Fitness Blog at http://www.xtremefitnessonline.com/

I welcome your comments and suggestions.

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If you are really desperate to learn how to grow taller naturally you might take advantage of height enhancing formulas, pills or weird contraptions that claim to increase your height faster than exercise or diet. In this article I’m going to reveal to you 5 common height gain scams that you need to stay away from.

Here are Are These 5 Common Height Gain Scams:

1. The acupressure technique. This is a “height increaser” product that looks like a shoe insole that claims to work through acupressure therapy for your feet. Consumers have reported negative increase in height plus pain while walking with the insoles inside their shoes.

2. Vitamin capsules that are marketed as “height growth capsules” are nothing more than just multivitamins. These products claim to work with fake testimonials and also give a fake 30 day money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied.

3. The foot massage scam from Asia is another bogus claim that involves dipping your feet in a bucket of warm water and then a massage using a very expensive foot massaging machine. After the massage, you have to apply “growth patches” on your feet. Total cost for this worst ever height increase scam is over $1,100!

4. Height increasing machines is a home TV shopping product that claims to increase your height by lying flat on a machine and stretching you with a traction device. It was often described as a medieval torture device by some consumers. This is a very dangerous machine that can cause serious damage to your back and neck; many fitness experts caution consumers from trying out this machine since it will cause a lot more harm than good.

5. Leg lengthening surgical procedures are also getting popular to attract height challenged people saying it is the only way to get taller. The surgical procedure could add two to three inches to your legs but most patients end up getting maimed than tall. These procedures are extremely painful and you can end up in a wheelchair for more than a year after the procedure.

The list goes on and there are a lot more height gain scams coming out every day since so many people around the world want to be taller. Instead of falling for any of these scams you’d be wise to spend your time looking for scientific proven height gain methods that will actually help you achieve the increase in height that you’re looking for.

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