What's you ritual before playing sport?

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What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by Pendu » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:35 pm

I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?

edit- Mod's could you move this to the Lifestyle forum, i only just noticed that forum, need to wear my glasses :doh: .

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:37 pm

It's fine here, Pendu. Unless you'd rather move it?
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Post by statichaos » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:41 pm

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Post by Pendu » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:47 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:It's fine here, Pendu. Unless you'd rather move it?
That's ok, it's fine as is then.

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Post by Feck » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:54 pm

mmm sports :dono: do you mean running an stuff ? ........ball games? (is that like water sports ?
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Re: What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by virphen » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:21 pm

If it counts as a ritual, trying to make sure I ate exactly 3 hours before kick-off.

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Post by GrayToneS » Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:09 am

Pendu wrote:I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?.
When you say "footie", are you referring to soccer, or some extreme form of flirting?
Vicks is fine, so long as your not squirting or spraying anything up your nose before you exert yourself then your good.

I play backyard football every sunday (religiously), the size of the game varies on how many participants we have show up. Sometimes its upwards of 40, and we'll split into several teams and have playoffs.

I gave up drinking on Saturday nights, as playing with a hangover is impossible, plus when I drink I usually go down when the sun comes up.
I always poop before a game to detoxify my body.
I always eat eggs on gameday.
I Drink 4 large glasses of water, starting 3 hours before gametime for proper hydration (as a side effect, I always end up peeing on a particular electric box). And drink as often as I remember to afterwards.
I stretch about 20 minutes for obvious reasons, even if I'm late to show I'll still stretch while my buds try to peer pressure me into jumping in prematurely.
I also do a gentle stretch as soon as I'm done playing.
Thats about it.
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Post by Pendu » Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:21 pm

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Pendu wrote:I play 5-a-side footie once a week, i try to have roughtly 1.5 litres of water throughout the day. Then an hour before the game, i have a gatorade. I find sometimes rubbing vicks on my neck can help me breath better, is that a good thing or not?.
When you say "footie", are you referring to soccer, or some extreme form of flirting?
Vicks is fine, so long as your not squirting or spraying anything up your nose before you exert yourself then your good.
Yes soccer mate, should have used a more common vernacular.

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Post by Animavore » Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:24 pm

I usually down a couple of pints to get rid of the nerves.
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Post by GrayToneS » Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:48 pm

Pendu wrote:Yes soccer mate, should have used a more common vernacular.
Too much runnin for me!! I do know a gang of mexicans that play at a local park on a regular occasion, I've played with them a few times, you ever notice there's no language barrier in sport?
Animavore wrote:I usually down a couple of pints to get rid of the nerves.
Stone throwin in the land of Ire could be considered a 'sport', but I doubt downing pints is a ritual attached only to sport.
If you drank "A" beer, I can almost guarantee you'll be bringin it back up if you played a full game of soccer, or football. :|~
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Re: What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by Pendu » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:52 pm

Aww i love runnin, prob why i'm always playing the right back role. They used to call me the duracell bunny in high school.

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Post by Ironclad » Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:00 pm

I do a lot of stretching and then hit the rowing machine for 5-10 mins, then stretch again. Not much else really, but then my church is heavy iron and oly bars.
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Re: What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by Stagman » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:29 pm

As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle. I always have a minimum of 10 minutes rest before commencing and will not play spanner monkey with my cars the previous evening in order not to stress my back.

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Re: What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by GrayToneS » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:03 am

Pendu wrote: They used to call me the duracell bunny in high school.
I'll bet that went well with the ladies.
Ironclad wrote:I do a lot of stretching and then hit the rowing machine for 5-10 mins, then stretch again. Not much else really, but then my church is heavy iron and oly bars.
I always wanted to have my own atheist church complete with basketball court, weight gym, and outdoor football field, where the community gathered on sunday to learn about life sciences and compete in various sporting events.
Stagman wrote:As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle. I always have a minimum of 10 minutes rest before commencing and will not play spanner monkey with my cars the previous evening in order not to stress my back.
Air rifle?
Spanner monkey?
Stress?
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Re: What's you ritual before playing sport?

Post by Pendu » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:20 pm

Stagman wrote:As a competition sport, I do ISSF 10m Air Rifle.
Interesting, shooting guns is considered a sport, you learn something new everyday.

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