As a runner with a desk job – as well as being 14 months postpartum – resting my body and making sure my muscles recover is very important to me to prevent injury and stay pain-free. I describe my Neuro Bar sessions to my friends as “getting a massage without taking your clothes off, getting oily, or having a stranger touch you” – perfect! 

Karen at The Neuro Bar suggested I start with three sessions in Relaxation Mode before moving on to the more intense Sport Mode while I trained for the Mount Maunganui Half Marathon. The Relaxation Mode lived up to its name. I fell asleep during every session and always left feeling very calm. The next day, my body felt great, I had slept well (as well as a person can sleep with a teething toddler in the next room!), my mental clarity and alertness were good, and my training runs felt great.

I went into my first Sport Mode session with a very fatigued body after ticking up a lot of kilometres during the week. Again, I fell asleep during the session and left feeling really good – a lot of the tightness in my muscles was gone.

In the two weeks leading up to the event, my treatment plan consisted of a Sport Mode session prior to my training day (which included 18km and 20km distances) and a Relaxation treatment for recovery on the day after. I really looked forward to these! I believe FLOWpresso® helped my body feel good before, during, and after… You still get fatigued after training, which is to be expected, but recovery is much faster and I experienced less toll on my body.

Unfortunately, all of New Zealand went into a Level 4 lockdown the week of the Half Marathon, so the event was postponed. I really missed my Neuro Bar sessions during lockdown, and was very excited to get back there once the restrictions lifted! I will definitely be visiting The Neuro Bar as I prepare for the postponed event in a couple of months.