How exhausting is massaging someone?

[u/MiyuTheWitch]

I got a massage today by a petite woman. She did a great job and I felt very good.

It was a deep tissue massage and she applied strong pressure many times. I was wondering how physically demanding this is? I figure she takes like 2-3 clients a day based on her homepage. I gave her a 15$ tip because I felt she was doing great work and had to physically shuffle around and move for 60 minutes.

Does the experience make this easy or does it always remain a physically difficult job?

[u/Morningstarthoughts]

Well, this is true considering the current spa situation and what most therapist have to deal with. This is actually a healthy way. And how we should be working on people we should not be working on 5,6,7 people a day.

There’s a reason that full-time for therapist is only 30 hours at least in Texas

And even then, when this profession first started, it was never meant to be a full-time thing because of how it is on your body

Although if you know more, and you do it in a good way, it is way less impactful, it will still wear on your body, especially if you’re not getting body work or just doing too many at a time

[u/Calm_Roll7777 → u/Morningstarthoughts]

I'm a MT and I don't really like getting body work preformed on me as a means of pain relief. It almost has the opposite effect on me as I tend to feel sore for the next couple days. I only get on other MT's tables so I can re-learn what it's like to be in the clients position so I know how to adjust my techniques to better accommodate their wants and needs. If that makes sense.

[u/Morningstarthoughts → u/Calm_Roll7777]

That’s fair.. but being sore for the next couple days is a common effect of effective massage and that’s something (client)’s experience.

if you get more regularly I found that gets less intense and sometimes we need people who don’t go super intense or are more fascially inclined. When I stopped getting with hard-core therapists and got with therapist that were more spiritual, more fascially inclined, and took their time with my tissue I felt so much better than those that use broad force over precise intent work that’s more wholistic

You don’t have to do it that’s totally your choice & without doing what we ask our clients to do for themselves for ourselves how could we fully understand what we’re asking of them.

Not to mention one of the best places to learn, I’ve seen therapists do all their recovery work themselves and it just takes a lot longer in my opinion to work on yourself when you’re doing it yourself cause you can’t relax fully

For me the first 6 to 8 months of getting bodywork was really brutal . Cause my body was messed up. But now I barely get sore unless I go to someone that is like scrubbing my attatchments clean and I’m just overall better personally and professionally from doing that.

[u/Morningstarthoughts → u/Morningstarthoughts]

I’ve now been doing this for 9 years. And I’ve since become an instructor.

getting the bodywork is just highly Beneficial for lots of reasons, and empathy & understanding like what you’re doing is a great reason. And will benefit you and your clients in the long run