🔥 The One Thing Most GAA Players Skip After Games (That Costs Them Later in the Week)
By now, most club GAA players are back into games — and one of the biggest mistakes I see is doing nothing for a day or two after.
If you want to stay sharp, reduce soreness, and avoid niggles later in the week,
Then 12–48 hours post-match is the ideal window to fit in some targeted mobility work.
That doesn’t mean foam rolling for 5 minutes.
It means working through controlled mobility for your hips, quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, and spine — like in this video.
The benefits to getting on top of your mobility work post-game:
1. Reduce muscle soreness & stiffness
– Games involve high-speed decels and cutting — which means eccentric damage to hamstrings, quads and adductors.
– Targeted mobility helps restore tissue length and reduces how sore and stiff you feel.
2. Restore joint range & movement quality
– Heavy collisions and volume running cause stiffness in the hips, ankles and t-spine.
– Mobility resets that before your next training load ramps up.
3. Stimulate recovery without extra stress
– It’s low-RPE, low-impact work — but it improves blood flow, clears waste products, and helps your body actually recover.
4. Reduce injury risk midweek
– The players who maintain hip, trunk and ankle mobility are the ones less likely to get overloaded once intensity rises again.
5. Mental + physical reset
– You’ll move better, feel lighter, and walk into training feeling like you’ve already turned the corner recovery-wise.
– Bonus points if you do some deep breathing to help your nervous system recover too.
Don’t just wait until your next training day before you start thinking about recovery.
