Learn Techniques, Tips and Tools for Off-Season Recovery

Hello everyone,
I am excited to announce I will be a guest lecturer at this month’s “Excel Sports Showroom Clinic Series”. This lecture will cover techniques, tips and tools for off-season active recovery and year-round health and fitness. I will be introducing my practice and explaining how I use acupuncture to treat cyclists and athletes for pain management, sports performance, and stress and anxiety.

If you can not make the lecture, it will be recorded and posted to my blog at www.bouldersportsacupuncture.com under the file named “video”.

Thank you,
Steven “Rizzo” Rizzolo
Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.

Date: Wednesday, November 11th , 2009
Time: 6:30-8:30
Location: Excel Sports
2045 32nd St
Boulder, CO 80301-2501
(303) 444-6737

Please RSVP to james@excelsports.com if you would like to attend.
Seats Fill Fast!

The following is the monthly showroom news letter from Excel Sports Boulder:

Excel Sports Showroom Clinic Series
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
6:30-8:30 pm

Techniques, Tips and Tools for Off-Season Active Recovery
& Year-Round Health and Fitness

Please join us for a clinic focused on helping you be a well rounded, healthy, and pro-active athlete. Living in the Boulder area means we have tremendous exposure to many athletic and healthy lifestyle care and training options. Most coaching services provide great training programs designed to build your strength and cycling fitness, but few cover a more holistic approach to flexibility, integrative strength, active muscle recovery, massage and alternative healing options.

Many such services are readily available, but while some practitioners are readily familiar with the needs of athletes, some are not. Here at Excel we routinely field questions about off-season training, massage, and much more, but we only have our experiences to work with. While we can coherently discuss an integrative approach to life and training, these aren't our specialties.

JP and Marin will lead off the clinic with some general approaches to flexibility, core strength and active recovery. JP has raced on the road and has significant experience off road as well. Marin is more of a mountain bike specialist, but also has a background in athletics, particularly swimming. Their combined experiences and personal interests may mirror yours, and they will share the techniques and tools they have utilized and had success with.

In an effort to provide a more holistic approach we have asked two friends to join us. Stephen Salazar, is our Service Manager and one of the best wheel builders in the country, but to many people he is also known for his work in Massage Therapy. Stephen has a particularly strong background with massage for cyclists, and is an active cyclist himself. As a soigneur for the USCF and Team EDS during the 1990's, Stephen actively applied his skills to high-level amateur and professional cyclists. He will share his thoughts on Pre and Post ride/race massage techniques that you can perform yourself, and introduce you to the TriggerPoint System, a home use tool you can utilize to address flexibility, recovery, myofascial release in the care and prevention of several cycling/triathlon related issues like: IT band problems, cramping, lactic acid breakdown, etc.

Steven Rizzolo of Boulder Sports Acupuncture will introduce his practice to you and explain how he uses acupuncture to treat cyclists and athletes for pain management, sport performance, stress and anxiety, as well as related injuries. As a cyclist and athlete himself, Steven undertook and developed his training with treating athletes as his personal focus. We feel the information and perspective he will bring to this clinic will be of tremendous value, regardless of whether or not you choose such an option yourself, as he will ask you to open your mind to understanding the holistic nature of the human body and how it can be treated to improve your athletic experience while valuing your overall health and well-being.

To be sure, we will cover a substantial amount of information, and this clinic should be considered an introduction, not comprehensive coverage. We want to expose you to new or under-appreciated aspects and methods of a "training program". Each segment will offer opportunity for questions/answers. We truly hope you decide to join us for this event.

Please RSVP to: james@excelsports.com We request this so we can prepare the space and materials we will need for all attendees. We will use our weekly Showroom Specials email for reminders and updates. Thank you from the Excel Showroom Staff: JP, James, Marin