Ice baths
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Topic: Ice baths
Posted By: Rambo_123UK
Subject: Ice baths
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 3:54pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6287210.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6287210.stm
I don't know how many people here read SPIN and saw the article on recovery techniques, or who might play for clubs with players who regularly do this, but for those contemplating (or already using) ice baths, you should read the article above. ------------- I swing both ways - but only when I'm bowling! |
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Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 9:28pm
Well, I don't think you'd catch me in an ice-bath at any time of day!  ------------- |
Posted By: The Tyke
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 9:57pm
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I thought Scotland was just one huge Ice bath fishcake?
You wouldn't catch me in one either. Hot baths all the way for me. ------------- Minn hugur er minn sverš (My mind is my sword) |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:18pm
Yeah, it's an ice bath in summer!  ------------- |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:31pm
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If the cold is bad, then the magic spray has to be bad too!! After all, the magic spray let of a coldish thing that stops the blood from clotting or whatever it does to reduce the swelling! ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:38pm
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Yeah, but that's just applied to one area of the body, an ice bath is applied to the whole body - the temperature change is gonna be pretty extreme and I don't think that's good for you. ------------- |
Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 11:00pm
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Well, I know the ice is good for swelling as soon as it happens but bathing in ice is totally not my sort of idea. I don't think I'll stand that kind of coldness. Maybe it's only people that experience winter can stand it. ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 5:43am
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Well even though i have no access to an ice bath, that was an interesting article all the same. |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 6:26am
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Yes NZF , fascinating article. The results are
inconclusive though , measuring pain is subjective and an individual's
perception could change from day to day. Maybe taking some muscle tissue from each guinea pig and quantitatively measuring lactic acid levels is the best way to resolve the issue! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: strokemaker
Date Posted: 23 July 2007 at 9:04pm
I'm just going to nod my head at that Sledger  I sometimes take cold showers because they apparently make you live longer. However, the common view is that people would just rather live shorter lives than go through cold showers. |
Posted By: STNOOR
Date Posted: 24 July 2007 at 7:09am
interesting article...but i won't try it. grr i always get cold and cough with a little temperature change  , taking an ice bath after exercise, that will kill me ------------- The Future Shoaib Akhter with the difference being that i will be a left hander and reverse swinging like Waqar Younis even in the early overs...hahaa :P. |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 24 July 2007 at 3:03pm
Don't you believe that lad !! The first hominids never saw a hot bath and were lucky to see 30 ! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 24 July 2007 at 3:27pm
True, but then again they didn't have the incentive of cricket to make them live any longer!  ------------- |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 6:10am
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Don't be too sure of that Fishy , there were plenty of bats around then!
------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: fishcake14
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 10:09am
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Posted By: W.G.
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 8:15pm
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I may be wrong, but don't cold baths cause atrophy of the gonads?
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Posted By: spin wizard
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 10:02pm
If it does, I'm safe then. Awwwwwwwwww, the beauty of living in tropical conditions.  ------------- In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage. |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 6:00am
Dunno about that WG , but I had a girlfriend many moons ago who promised to make a trophy of 'em if I didn't stop flirting with this other lass ! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: Phlipper
Date Posted: 29 July 2007 at 12:50pm
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Latest practice is that the water should not be below 10 degrees
C, and that it should be alternated with warm water. In Aus the football people are at the forefront of the current thinking - 3 minutes cold shower, 3 minutes warm shower and repeat 3 times. The idea is to constrict the blood vessels and move the lactic acid, reduce inflammation around the joints etc.. Some sucess has been reported by athletes working out in the cold sea water or swimming pools the day after the strenuous exercise. |
Posted By: blaster17
Date Posted: 14 August 2007 at 4:13pm
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lo li have had a ice bath before, and trust me its freezing!!!! but i didn't wake up in the morning as stiff after a match i usually do, lactic acid shifted quite quick tho :D |
Posted By: legspinner102
Date Posted: 18 October 2007 at 6:07pm
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I would hate a ice bath!It would freeze me to death
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