Massage Styles & Experiences
Sports Massage
in Centurion Pretoria
Training changes your body from week to week. Your massage should adapt also!
A hard leg session doesn't create the same physical demands as a long cycle. Padel loads you differently from running. Golf, swimming, HYROX, strength training and weekend sport all produce their own patterns of muscular fatigue, soreness and tension.
Your Sports Massage should respond to those differences.
At Kahe Hands, Sports Massage isn't simply a harder full-body massage. It is focused bodywork planned around what you do, what you have recently done, how your body feels and what you need to do next.
Research supports massage particularly for reducing post-exercise muscle soreness and improving perceived recovery, with smaller benefits reported for flexibility.
Sports Massage at Kahe Hands
30 min Sports Massage — R400
Focused treatment when one particular area needs attention.
60 min Sports Massage — R750
Our core Sports Massage for targeted recovery and bodywork around the areas most affected by your training or activity.
90 min Sports Massage — R990
More time for several connected areas, heavier training loads or a combination of focused work and broader recovery massage.
Rebook within 6 weeks and receive 15% off your next Sports Massage.
For athletes and active people who want massage built into their training rather than waiting until something becomes uncomfortable, we also offer:
4 × 60 min Sports Massage — R2,400
Normally R3,000. Save R600.
4 × 90 min Sports Massage — R3,400
Normally R3,960. Save R560.
All four sessions must be used within 12 weeks.
Why Sports Massage?
Hard training has consequences beyond the training session itself. Muscles can remain sore, heavy or uncomfortable for several days, while repeated training can create recurring areas of tension that begin affecting how comfortable you feel during your next session.
A systematic review and meta-analysis involving 29 studies found that Sports Massage significantly reduced delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and produced a small improvement in flexibility. A broader review of post-exercise recovery strategies also found massage effective for reducing DOMS and perceived fatigue. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
This makes Sports Massage particularly useful as a recovery tool between periods of physical demand.
Your Sport Determines the Starting Point
A runner, cyclist and golfer should not automatically receive the same massage. Neither should two runners if one completed a demanding event yesterday while the other is preparing to compete tomorrow.
We begin with a brief assessment of your activity, recent training, areas of soreness or restriction and what is coming next. Your session can then combine appropriate Sports Massage, Deep Tissue work, myofascial techniques, movement, stretching, heat, silicone cupping or other bodywork according to what your body requires.
Pressure is also adapted. Sports Massage can be firm and focused, but harder is not automatically better. The objective is purposeful work without forcing your body into unnecessary guarding.
Before, During or After Training?
After demanding training, the priority is usually recovery. Massage can help reduce post-exercise soreness and perceived fatigue, making this one of the best-supported uses of Sports Massage. (frontiersin.org)
During regular training, massage can address the muscular tension and recurring areas of discomfort that develop as training accumulates. Regular sessions also allow us to recognise your individual patterns rather than starting again at every appointment.
Before an event, the approach changes again. The objective is generally to help you feel comfortable and ready to move without leaving heavily worked tissues unnecessarily tender immediately before competition.
Tell us what you have done and what you are doing next. That information helps determine the treatment.
Sports Massage and Recovery
Sports Massage is sometimes promoted as though it will automatically make an athlete faster or stronger. The more compelling evidence is actually around recovery.
A comprehensive systematic review found benefits including reduced DOMS, pain, perceived fatigue, stress and anxiety, together with improvements in relaxation and perceived recovery. Direct improvements in sporting performance measures were not consistently demonstrated. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
For an active person, that distinction is useful. Training is not only what happens during exercise; how comfortably you recover between sessions matters too.
Which Session Should You Book?
Choose 30 minutes (R400) when one clearly defined area needs attention.
Choose 60 minutes (R750) for most regular Sports Massage appointments. This gives us enough time for focused work around the main areas affected by your activity.
Choose 90 minutes (R990) when several connected regions need attention—for example, a runner wanting the calves, thighs, glutes, hips and lower back considered together.
For occasional maintenance, rebook within six weeks and receive 15% off.
If you are training consistently over the next three months, the 4 × 60 min (R2,400) or 4 × 90 min (R3,400) packages make Sports Massage part of your recovery schedule while providing a substantial saving.
When Pain Is More Than Training Soreness
Normal muscular soreness after exercise is different from an acute injury. Significant trauma, inability to bear weight normally, severe or rapidly increasing pain, major swelling or bruising, neurological symptoms or a suspected fracture or tear should be appropriately assessed before massage.
Once massage is appropriate, we can concentrate on the muscular tension, soreness and movement-related discomfort within our scope.
Book Your Sports Massage
30 min — R400 | Focused treatment
60 min — R750 | Core Sports Massage
Rebook within 6 weeks — 15% discount or make it part of your recovery
4 × 60 min — R2,400 | Save R600
Four sessions to be completed within 12 weeks.
Tell us what you train, what you have done recently and what your body needs to do next. We will shape the massage around that.