Not all massages are beneficial

When was the last time you feel tired and achy?
And what came into your mind?
Maybe a massage can help to rejuvenate those tired achy muscles?

I was thinking along those lines too.
Has been increasing my intensity and volume in my training in preparation for 70.3 Half ironman race in September.
And my body was protesting a little.
So I booked for a massage to accelerate recovery.

The massage was a basic deep tissue whole body massage.
The session was ok but at the end of the session I felt slight headache coming on.
For the next 1 hour it just got worse!
My head was tightening and tightening. It makes walking around uncomfortable.
Tried to remedy the situation with some hot honey ginger tea but to no avail.

Had to go home on my off day and cancelled my swim coaching.
Slopped in front of the television but even watching telly was a pain.
Had a simple dinner of soup and bread but a cocktail of vitamins and garlic pill before I went to bed at 8pm.

The headache did not let up and tossed around like salad before falling asleep.

Got up at 8am and felt great!

I think the flu virus was incubating in me for a while (hope I did not get it from anyone …) and the massage just created a super highway for them to travel to the rest of my body. The virus that will take a few days to act it, did it in an hour.

So the moral of the story, if you are feeling under the weather, rest but no massge!