Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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Welcome to Health and Performance Unlimited. As three sports scientists, currently doing our honors year in exercise science, we have created this blog to benefit both ourselves and others. We are working together to do our thesis and now to write this blog. The blog is about current affairs in the sporting world, training techniques and habits, healthy lifestyles, supplementation and so forth. It will also be question and answer based, if there are any queries be it on your training and lifestyle, supplements that interest you or news in the sporting world feel free to ask and we will get back to you. We are here to help.
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i've heared alot of different veiws on this and i would like to know which is more affective after training or a match,a cold bath or a warm bath and why the affects if any?
ReplyDeleteBarry the idea behind the cold bath is that intense exercise can cause microtrauma/ little tears in the muscle, the cold water will cause vasoconstriction which is basically making the blood vessels close slightly, this will slow down physiological processes while flushing out the muscle of waste products. It is helps to reduce muscle swelling and DOMS (delayed muscle soreness). Once you are out the cold bath and your muscles warm up it will then speed up the healing process via vasodilation which will increase blood flow to the muscles.
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