Last Modified on October 30, 2023 by Dr. Tyler Meier

Chiropractic Care and Crossfit: The Benefits of Regular Care for Weekend Warriors

What is a weekend warrior?

Weekend warriors are individuals who practice athletic physical activities in their spare time and on weekends. While a weekend warrior may have a primarily sedentary job or occupation, their additional free time is often spent working out, participating in group marathons and triathlons, or engaging in recreational sports like rock-climbing, surfing, golfing, basketball, and kayaking.

A weekend warrior generally enjoys physical activity, and may have a routine that incorporates regular exercise into their weekly routine, often before or after work/occupation hours. Weekend warriors may or may not work a physically-demanding job or practice a physically demanding occupation, but they enjoy physical activity enough to include it in their weekly or weekend plans.

Crossfit – Risks & Benefits

Crossfit is a form of exercise that incorporates practical, multi-dimensional physical activities and movements into a routine to create a comprehensive workout.

Crossfit is a particularly popular pastime for weekend warriors, as it is engaging, often fun and varied, and offers many fitness and lifestyle benefits which can improve overall wellness, energy levels, and quality of life.

Common exercises in the crossfit workout program include own-body strength training, high interval intensity training, and weighted training. Proper technique is an important part of the routine, which is often practiced collaboratively with a community of other Crossfit practitioners.

The benefits of crossfit include a diverse, often different workout which provides a host of physical benefits. As with every type of physical workout regimen, however, crossfit does come with some risks.

The CrossFit workout can be very intense, placing a large amount of stress on the bones and joints of the body. Additionally, for weekend warriors whose physical activity is part-time, there can be additional concerns. CrossFit is known for its dynamic, multi-movement exercises that may be too intensive for beginners, individuals experiencing an injury, or anyone who may be at risk for muscle overuse. Additionally, it is estimated that 73% of regular CrossFit athletes sustain an injury that will keep them from working, training, or competing.

What kinds of injuries are weekend warriors at-risk for?

Weekend warriors who practice CrossFit or other forms of intensive physical activity and recreation are at risk for a wide range of injuries. These injuries include sprains and strains, shoulder and knee damage, swollen and inflamed muscles, injuries to the achilles tendon and rotator cuff, fractures, shin splints, dislocations, pulled muscles, tennis or golf elbow, groin and hamstring damage, sciatica, and ACL tears and strains.

Because weekend warriors typically experience a fundamental enjoyment of exercise, it is also more likely that they will continue to engage in physical activity, even after having experienced a minor injury. Unfortunately, this common practice is likely to lead to more injuries, especially of the area that is already under strain.

What’s the likelihood of injury as a part-time exerciser?

While regular exercise is a valuable part of any wellness based lifestyle, there are specific risks for individuals who experience exercise for only a small part of their day, or heavily over short, intense intervals (like during the weekend).

Part-time exercise can put a unique strain on the body, particularly if an individual’s routine is primarily sedentary. Special precautions must be taken to warm up, stretch regularly, and prepare the body for movement and activity. If not, the intensive, short durations of exercise (like CrossFit) or long stretches of physical activity (like a marathon) can actually put the body under significant stress, making injury and accident far more likely in the course of physical activity.

What is chiropractic care?

Chiropractic care is a form of wellness care that focuses on the neuromusculoskeletal system.

Chiropractors are experts of the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nervous system. Chiropractors do not use surgery or any other form of invasive treatment to provide care. Instead, everything is done through the outside of the body, with gentle spinal compression and traction, soft tissue manipulation, chiropractic massage, and a variety of other interventions.

The Benefits of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractors can help to realign the bones and joints of the body, regulate the nervous system, ease and release muscle and nerve pain, and improve overall wellness across the body’s systems.

As the top rated chiropractor in Newport Beach, CA, Dr. Tyler Meier of CorePosture Chiropractic has extensive experience providing high quality chiropractic care to innumerable patients seeking back pain relief, rehabilitation from injuries, and improved health.

For those seeking a chiropractor in Orange County, CA, Dr. Tyler Meier is trained in a unique form of chiropractic care called Chiropractic BioPhysics®, which focuses on creating long term change in the spine and joints. While regular chiropractic care aims to temporarily reduce pain, traditional adjustments alone don’t do much to correct the structure of the spine. CBP chiropractors, however, use mirror-image adjustments and customized spinal traction setups to create powerful shifts in the spinal alignment which produce long-term changes and pain relief.

Often referred to as the best chiropractor in Newport Beach, CA, Dr. Tyler has witnessed transformations in weekend warrior chiropractic and crossfit chiropractic care.

3 Ways that Chiropractic Care Can Help A Crossfit Practitioner/Weekend Warrior

#1. Improve flexibility and mobility

For any crossfit practitioner or weekend warrior, mobility and flexibility are essential parts of improving performance and agility and getting the most out of your workout. Regular chiropractic care helps keep muscles, tendons, and ligaments supple and flexible, while ensuring the spinal structure is prepared to help you lift, push, pull, and run as healthfully and easily as possible.

#2. Speed recovery

Weekend warriors and crossfitters are likely to become injured—it’s just a matter of when. If and when you are injured, chiropractic care can help speed your recovery by increasing the circulation of nerve energy, oxygen, and nutrients in the body, as well as stimulating immune response.

#3. Support continued physical activity

No weekend warrior or crossfitter wants to stop enjoying physical activity, and chiropractic care ensures you never have to!

Regular chiropractic contributes to the health of all of your body’s systems, improving performance, response time, stamina, and adaptation, while decreasing pain, discomfort, injury, headaches, sciatica, and other performance-limiting factors.

Are you ready to experience the highest quality of chiropractic care available in Irvine, Newport Beach, Laguna Hills, Tustin, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, and Orange and see how the revolutionary Chiropractic BioPhysics® technique can change your life?

Make your appointment today.

Tyler Meier Chiropractor

Dr. Tyler Meier is a board-certified, licensed chiropractor and founder of CorePosture Chiropractic in Newport Beach, CA

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