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The Penn Maintain women's swimming team has discovered one of the kindly foot's uncommon, yet most effective uses -- "mashing."
The name applies to a unique form of a deep interweaving massage that head coach John Hargis has his swimmers doing during breaks in pursuit.
Mashing involves having one person lay facedown on the justification, while a teammate stands upright on top of her with her feet resting on the back of the legs of the teammate laying down.
The prominence teammate digs her heels into the upper leg of the teammate laying down, focusing expressly on the area above the knee.
"It helps with the recovery," Hargis said. "It helps get the blood squirt to the area, and helps disperse the lactic acid quicker, all the jettison that gets in your body from swimming at high levels."
Hargis has handed over the reins of the band's stretching and recovery to second-year affiliated coach Aaron Mahaney, who he calls the "stretching guru."
Mahaney, who received his B.A. in kinesiology from Michigan Confirm in 2002, has employed the techniques of Innovative Fraternity Solutions (IBS), a fitness program based in Coral Springs, Fla.
Source: The Daily Collegian Online