Ice Baths

whassupp2

Having used an ice bath after training i can safely say they work wonders.
Before i used them i would be awake during the night with cramps and stiff the following morning after training.
If used with a good warm up/down they are excellent but not a pleasant experience.;)

Vegeta

as in "where's my manhood gone" cold

my dad is 47 and he is still training with the local hurling team and takes an ice bath every evening after training.

He's fitter than me, i'm 23. its crazy really

iregk

ice baths are class if not extremely painfull and unpleasant at the time. they work wonders for muscle regeneration and healing of bruises.

StaggerLee

I'd love to give it a go, i'm not a member of any club though so dont have the facility really.

Rogueish

You don't need to be a member of a club. Go straight home after training fill the bath with cold water, throw in half a bucket of ice and sit in it for 1minute, then into a warm shower for 2mins and repeat three times.

I work with athletes who use them after a heavy training session and they all complain if the ice baths aren't available as they will have worse DOMS the next day.

Saying that I was nearly lynched for suggesting them in the first place but they are singing a different tune now apart from the occasional threat to throw me into them......

Roddy23

a bucket of ice and sit in it for 1minute, then into a warm shower for 2mins and repeat three times

3 times???
what would be the effect of doing it just the once? after football on a Sunday I would be in bits with sore muscles until Tuesday, if I did it just the once, would it help at all?

whassupp2

while they are really cold its my toes that i lose the feeling in.

ball ox

Is not not bad for your heart to shock your body on such a regular basis?

walt0r

was about to ask the same question...heart, etc?

Rogueish

Roddy23 wrote:

3 times???
what would be the effect of doing it just the once? after football on a Sunday I would be in bits with sore muscles until Tuesday, if I did it just the once, would it help at all?

Even doing it just once you would see significant improvements with in your DOMS. I'm just giving you what is usually recommended but trying to get the guys in the teams that I work with to do it once is usually an achievement enough.

As for the shock to the heart.....that particular issue leads to a whole different issue altogether regarding comprehensive pre-season medical screening for all participants in organised sports.......

However without getting up on my soap box about that particular issue..... imo ...... the demands of modern day sports tend to be of a high enough intensity that a significant strain is placed on the heart anyway prior to coming within an ass' roar of an ice bath. Also a healthy heart is well able to adapt to the stresses placed upon it think about the body's whole fight or flight mechanisms.