Free Pre-wrap!!! Comment here and enter to win!

July 28, 2008 · Filed Under Pre-wrap Giveaway · 187 Comments 

Fill us in…how do you use pre-wrap?

Tell us how you use pre-wrap and win a chance to win a free roll!

Yes, it’s true! Every week we will give away a free roll of pre-wrap to one of our fans! Never tried pre-wrap? Now is your chance! We know people are crazy about pre-wrap - this week all you have to do is tell us how you use pre-wrap and be entered to win a free roll. (Of course, if you’ve never used it before - just say hi here and let us know you’re interested!)

Leave a comment here and be entered to win. Don’t forget to leave us with a valid email address so we can let you know if you’ve won.

You will be contacted by e-mail if we choose your name!

On Becoming a True Champion

July 26, 2008 · Filed Under Parenting Athletes · Comment 

If you are an athlete or the parent of one, you must head on over and check out Kirk Mango’s site and blog and sign up on his mailing list for his upcoming book Becoming a True Champion. He provides the foundation for teens to achieve their aspirations, not only as athletes but as individuals with good character. At a time when direction and inspiration is sought so desperately, this book provides the guidance they need to become true champions.

Champions-and championship teams-are made, not born. They use their God-given talents to reach their full potential and allow nothing to come between where they are now and where they want to be.

Champions understand and believe that their limitations are governed only by their imagination.

All real success and achievement result from your own choices, not those of others who may try to make your choices for you.

— Excerpts/concepts from “A Champion” in Becoming a True Champion

Sound advice isn’t easy to come by in today’s world of competitive sports. It’s refreshing to hear Mango’s voice of reason and willingness to promote personal responsibility in athletics.

Becoming a True Champion” empowers you by placing the responsibility for your sports training success exactly where it should be, with you, the athlete. No matter what goals you set, the path you choose, or obstacles you face, the basic principles behind true success will always be the same.” –Kirk Mango

Becoming A True Champion

Pre-wrap Facebook Groups

July 14, 2008 · Filed Under Fun With Pre-wrap · 3 Comments 

Did you know that pre-wrap fans are everywhere?!!! Check out how many groups there are on Facebook alone!

  1. Pre-wrap is THE Best (Girls love it even some guy haha but really it helps those w/ amazing hair =])
  2. A Little Pre-wrap Can Fix Anything (
    It might be preventing the tape from pulling your hair out when you take it off or stopping the blood from gushing out of that open wound. Could it be preventing you from spreading an infection? Or, maybe its used for a simple task like keeping your hair out of your face; it could even be holding that perfectly rigged up contraption together. Perhaps it doesnt even serve a purpose at all, but by god it looks cool! No matter what your reason is, pre-wrap is by far one of the greatest inventions ever created…)
  3. I Love Pre-Wrap
  4. Pre-wrap is my life…can’t live without it ever! (Description: everyone in here has at least 2 rolls at home. there’s too many colors to count.
    you know exactly where to get it.
    if you play sports you have some.
    you have some with you just in case yours breaks.)
  5. Pre-wrap is prolly the greatest invention ever…
  6. Pre-wrap is the @#$%”
    Pre-wrap - YAY!!
    Head bands, shirt holders
    and well, pre-wrapping!!
  7. Pre-wrap (or pro wrap or sports wrap) is GLORIOUS!
  8. Pre-wrap will save the world someday.
  9. 101 Uses for Pro-Wrap
  10. i’m addicted to pre-wrap… but it isn’t my fault!!

The Power of Ice

July 11, 2008 · Filed Under Fun With Pre-wrap · 1 Comment 

You’ve heard it before - when you first injure yourself, the best thing to do is grab some ice. How often have you had to scramble to find an ice pack, struggle to get it cold, and then fight to keep it on your injury? While coaches usually have an ice pack somewhere in their kit, it makes sense to be proactive and keep your own pack in your bag or at least in the trunk of your car.

Dr. Peter Lowenberg has designed a line of ice packs designed to fit the ice pack to your injury AND keep it there! Total Ice Therapy products use an ice bag with a screw top combined with a neoprene wrap to provide firm, consistent pressure to maximize healing. The principle behind this is that real ice decreases pain, swelling, and inflammation best. The unique design of these ice wraps makes for easy compliance of a recovery regime because they are easy to use, they stay in place, and you can always get ice anywhere you go.

The best method to treat any sports injury is ICE. Proven to be safe and effective at relieving pain and decreasing inflammation, ice therapy is an easy self-care technique for conditions of the joints and soft tissue (muscles, ligaments, tendons). It minimizes swelling and bleeding and is always accompanied by rest, compression and elevation. When applied, the athlete goes through the 4 phases of icing: cold, burning, aching, and numbness. These are all perfectly normal.

Cold therapy, also known as cryo-therapy, is most effective in the early or acute stage of inflammation, before range of motion exercises and rehabilitation. It works on the principle of heat exchange whereby the cooler object will absorb the heat from the warmer one, that being your body.

After an injury, surrounding blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients and take away waste products are damaged. Everything slows down and now blood and other fluids seep into the space around muscles, causing swelling, bruising, and pain. Applying ice lowers temperature of the damaged area; constricts or makes blood vessels smaller, thus reducing tissue damage; and slows down nerve impulses, which also decreases pain.

Never use heat right after an injury as it will have the opposite effect of ice and increase pain and swelling of an already damaged region.

When it comes to cooling devices, real ice does a better job than chemical or gel packs because it is able to draw 4 times the amount of heat out of tissue, since it lasts longer at an even temperature, giving a more effective treatment. Most chemical or 1-time-use packs quickly lose their ability to transfer heat and thus their effectiveness to reduce swelling.

Cold therapy should always be used as soon as possible after an injury occurs and at 15-20 minute intervals with a minimum of 1 hour off in-between. In order to maintain the results of the treatment it also should be used any time there is a flare-up.

REMEMBER: IF YOU HURT YOURSELF…YOU NEED TO ICE. Be sure to visit Total Ice Therapy to order your own! If you are an athletic trainer or run an athletic facility, these are great to have on hand!

Celtic Force Volleyball Club Loves Lime Green Pre-wrap!

July 7, 2008 · Filed Under Fun With Pre-wrap · Comment 

Celtic Force Volleyball Club is shared the joy and excitement of Lime Green prewrap with teams throughout the United States, at the history making JVDA Championships in Louisville, KY. Celtic Force used the lime green prewrap as a “handshake” gift to share with other teams. They’re proud to wear and share lime green prewrap and acknowledge that ” lime green is the new black!”