What do you guys think about this recovery glove? It may be similar to an ice bath for recovery or perhaps significantly more effective.
Can you imagine a marathon runner doing 5-6 x 2 mile with 3:00 in the glove device for recovery?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/22/BAQU12UC28.DTL
That looks like a triathlete's dream. Tri guys would swallow them up.
Why not just put your hand in ice water? Faster thermal transfer, no need for the vacuum.
I wonder if this would have the same effect:
http://www.betterexerciseexperience.com/
This was posted here a while back. Seemed intriguing, but it sounds like a gimmick.
So the guy in the first linked article has his hand in a fancy cooling device...but he also has a jacket on.
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Cool Hand Luke wrote:
Why not just put your hand in ice water? Faster thermal transfer, no need for the vacuum.
Yeah, the two PhD biologists at Stanford that spent the better part of 10 years developing it probably never thought of that.