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Do Compression boots really work?
Can amateur athletes benefit from access to expensive recovery techniques?
What is sports recovery and why it is important?
Recovery is the time period in between exercise that allows muscles to rebuild, replenish and repair themselves. The process of recovery is important for active people because it lets your body rebuild itself after the stress of exercise and helps prevent injuries. It helps us avoid dangerous overtraining. Some studies link factors such as sleep with performance levels.
Recovery can be short-term, like a cool down after a workout, or can be a schedule built into a training programme encompassing things like cold water immersion “Ice Baths”, stretching, rest days, deep tissue or sports massage and the use of compression products such as socks, leggings and more expensive products like Compression Boots. It is generally accepted that the more activity you engage in, the more recovery you should work into your training regimen.
“If the rate of recovery is appropriate, higher training volumes and intensities are possible without the detrimental effects of overtraining,”
- Lance C. Dalleck, American Council on Exercise.
I, play an amateur sport at International level and have been wanting to try out Compression Boots for a long time. Unfortunately, Compression Boots are a very expensive method of recovery, with most of them clocking in between $1000 and $1500 a pair. However, I recently discovered a new service called ‘Recovery Room’, where professional and amateur athletes can try cold, heat and compression therapy for the affordable price of €25 per session.
The Recovery Room is a space dedicated to affordable sports recovery for amateur and elite athletes, and I found it because a lot of my teammates from the amateur sport that I play were posting about it on Instagram.
How it works:
You get 10 minutes in the Ice Bath, 10 minutes in the Jacuzzi, 10 minutes in the Infrared Sauna and finish with 20 minutes in the Compression Boots. The Cold…
