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WARM UP-X
System Red

Muscle care for use in cold
and wet weather conditions

How does it Work?

In cold circumstances vessels in skin constrict, as do the vessels in the working muscles, impairing muscular performance.

For these conditions Sportsbalm developed the Warm Series. Most known muscle-care products dilate muscular and skin-vessels likewise, causing vascular dilatation in the skin, visible by a red flare, indicating and uncalled-for redistribution of blood and loss of warmth. Sportsbalm Warm series products however stimulate muscular vessels to dilate, whereas they do not impair the protective function of the skin.

Sportsbalm Warm Series-products contain selected ingredients that stimulate nerve-endings and muscular vessels in the core of the muscles while they leave the superficial skin-circulation uninfluenced ( no red flare), rather protecting the skin with a breathing film of (etheric oils or) Vaseline, thereby isolating and preserving warmth. Sportsbalm keeps the cold outside, and the warmth in, while facilitating muscular metabolism. These properties make Sportsbalm unique.

By attending muscles and tendons during cold and wet circumstances they are protected against cooling down, impaired performance or injury. The unique film keeps protecting the skin from the outside influences. During strain the active ingredients stimulate circulation facilitating muscular metabolism.

The ingredients work deep so during strain the skin does not turn red. After strain the circulation reduces causing thrust and consequent stimulation of nerve-ends. Sportsbalm products can restore circulation thereby mobilizing fluids and reducing thrust.

General Information
About Sporting & Muscles

All movement in the body is basically mediated by the active contractions of muscle fibers followed by their passive relaxation, returning them to their rest length, enabling the next contraction.

On a molecular level the binding of myosin to actin filaments – comparable to a group of men pulling a rope hand over hand – is responsible for the muscular contraction as a whole.

These actin-myosin bindings cost energy. Energy that is provided by the adenosin-trifosfate metabolism in which oxygen and nutrients like glucose are put to work.

Oxygen and nutrients are transported to the muscle fibers by capillaries that stem from the arterial side of the vascular system. Consequently carbon dioxide and waste products are drained from the muscles by the venous side of the vascular system.

What you need to know about how your muscles work during exercising and playing Sports

Starting and finishing in the lungs, where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place, the vascular system transports the blood to and from the tissues, accelerated by the heart. From the heart the blood is taken via arteries and arterioles to capillaries, the microscopic ‘exchange vessels’ in and around tissues like skin and muscle.

Smooth muscles around arterioles regulate to what extend the capillaries are filled, enabling redistribution of blood to tissues that have work to do. This redistribution of blood flow is important to sportsmen and woman: tissues (organs) that contribute to the activity at hand are provided with more blood than tissues (organs) that are not directly involved.

In sports it is important to have sufficient blood flow to the muscles. Skeletal muscles in ‘oxygen dept’ will produce lactic acid, noticeable by pain in the spleen and impaired performance of the muscles. But besides that it is important to have a good skin function. The task of the skin is to protect and regulate temperature. In general vessels constrict in cold conditions, in the skin this helps to insolate and preserve heath. Warm conditions make vessels dilate, facilitating the loss of heath through the skin.

Muscle metabolism optimizes at a temperature between 102.2 Fahrenheit (skin). The core-temperature of the human body in rest is between 100.4 and 102.2 Fahrenheit.
With moderate strain the core temperature rises to 102,2 Fahrenheit, and with heavy strain it may rise to as much as 104 Fahrenheit , the temperature in the working muscles being 2,64 Fahrenheit higher (!). Therefore it is profitable to cool the muscle in warm conditions, all to keep the muscle temperature within the range of maximum performance.

Also important is the complete relaxation of muscle fibers before they are engaged in new action again. Insufficiently recovered muscles are prone to overstrain. Insufficiently recovered muscles feel tired, stiff or painful, whereas, impaired performance and muscle-injuries are often due to bad muscle ‘maintenance’ and insufficient relaxation after activity. Muscle care is of the utmost importance both to the sportive performance itself and the prevention of muscle injuries. Muscles should receive their care before as well as after sport performances.