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I was lucky to have a decent mates footy game to play in until my mid/late forties but for various reasons that game died off and we stopped playing.
For the last 5 years or so I've mainly played badminton once or twice a week plus random other lower level stuff. Suits me down to the ground, lots of twisting and turning, lunging etc but not too exhausting (like squash!). I feel as fit as I've ever done (relatively) but that's not hard.
Anyhoo, went to a few World Cup parties and got invited to a new footy game, a mix of oldies like me with a few sons and their mates playing too. Hate to think I've scored my last ever goal so played in my first game last week and it was great fun (scored 2 in a 5-3 victory
)...but I could hardy move for days afterwards. Did lots of warm up but warm down was a pint in the pub.
I don't have much of an "engine" so am a lazy striker, but get a sniff of goal and I'm off. So lots of short sprints and still have a decent shot at the end of it.
Despite the pain I decided to play again this week...but it was worse and I limped off 10 minutes before the end. Woke up this morning and felt much better generally than the previous week...but the muscles at the very top of both my hips are really painful (at the front and in the "groove" between leg and torso). On one side I can't lift my leg at all to put my sock on. I'm surprised as I thought I'd be OK after my badminton. A triathlon mate says it sounds like my hip abductors?
I would really like to play on but don't want to cause any lasting damage. So what do you think?
1. Give up you old fool, stick to oldies games like badminton.
2. Rest and try again.
3. Rest but do some exercises to strengthen those muscles before you play. Any ideas?
4. Something else...yoga?
For the last 5 years or so I've mainly played badminton once or twice a week plus random other lower level stuff. Suits me down to the ground, lots of twisting and turning, lunging etc but not too exhausting (like squash!). I feel as fit as I've ever done (relatively) but that's not hard.
Anyhoo, went to a few World Cup parties and got invited to a new footy game, a mix of oldies like me with a few sons and their mates playing too. Hate to think I've scored my last ever goal so played in my first game last week and it was great fun (scored 2 in a 5-3 victory
)...but I could hardy move for days afterwards. Did lots of warm up but warm down was a pint in the pub.I don't have much of an "engine" so am a lazy striker, but get a sniff of goal and I'm off. So lots of short sprints and still have a decent shot at the end of it.
Despite the pain I decided to play again this week...but it was worse and I limped off 10 minutes before the end. Woke up this morning and felt much better generally than the previous week...but the muscles at the very top of both my hips are really painful (at the front and in the "groove" between leg and torso). On one side I can't lift my leg at all to put my sock on. I'm surprised as I thought I'd be OK after my badminton. A triathlon mate says it sounds like my hip abductors?
I would really like to play on but don't want to cause any lasting damage. So what do you think?
1. Give up you old fool, stick to oldies games like badminton.
2. Rest and try again.
3. Rest but do some exercises to strengthen those muscles before you play. Any ideas?
4. Something else...yoga?
No need to strengthen the muscles, playing regularly will do that, just try and ease into it next time.
You went from 0 to Full blown match with nothing in between, nothing can prepare the body for that and no amount of stretching after would help much either. Kick a ball about between matches, start doing some drills, etc
Football is very hard on the body, sprinting 20 yards and then twisting on the spot and then having a 16 stone bloke clatter into you at the same time is physically very stressful!
You went from 0 to Full blown match with nothing in between, nothing can prepare the body for that and no amount of stretching after would help much either. Kick a ball about between matches, start doing some drills, etc
Football is very hard on the body, sprinting 20 yards and then twisting on the spot and then having a 16 stone bloke clatter into you at the same time is physically very stressful!
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