Ice Baths Are Just Another Way To Recover
Recovery from training is just as important as the training itself. If you consistently train and do nothing to help your body recover it is likely you will end up injured or over trained. In previous blog posts I have talked about a variety of ways to recover from hard train ing. I talked about massage, yoga/stretching, and epsom salt baths for recovery. Another great way to recover is ice baths. Ice baths are best done immediately after a hard workout. I do ice baths after my long workouts such as long rides or runs. Ice baths are also good after higher intensity workouts which may not be as long. A shorter workout like a track workout would be a good example. These are shorter but very intense and doing an ice bath after this type of workout is great. The theory behind ice baths is related to the fact that intense exercise actually causes microtrauma, or tiny tears in muscle fibers. The ice bath is thought t...