Compression clothing...an idiots guide

pinno

Can someone please explain the phenomenononandon to me please. It just looks 'ouch' to me.

Also, F*ck me Rapha is expensive - who the heck can actually afford Rapha clothing ?

daviesee

pinarello001 wrote:

Can someone please explain the phenomenononandon to me please. It just looks 'ouch' to me.

Also, F*ck me Rapha is expensive - who the heck can actually afford Rapha clothing ?

I can.

Compression sounds like b0ll0cks though.

kingstonian

I wore compression shorts when playing football (no, they don't crush your nuts!). May be a coincidence but once I started using them I stopped suffering from minor muscle strains.

Mikey23

Supposed to reduce soreness and stiffness and increase recovery times... Not entirely convinced myself but have trained in compression shorts and tights for a few years now. Paula Radcliffe started using compression socks in marathons and we all to follow like lemmings... Best known company is skins .Had to sleep in self inflating support stockings while recently in hospital to avoid thrombosis... Not my most comfortable night

ballysmate

Mikey23 wrote:

Supposed to reduce soreness and stiffness and increase recovery times... Not entirely convinced myself but have trained in compression shorts and tights for a few years now. Paula Radcliffe started using compression socks in marathons and we all to follow like lemmings... Best known company is skins .Had to sleep in self inflating support stockings while recently in hospital to avoid thrombosis... Not my most comfortable night

You were in hospital? :roll:

sloppyschleckonds

Can't you just buy everything a couple of sizes smaller?

Mikey23

@bm... I'll tell you about it someday :-)

Mikey23

@ss good thinking but nope it has to be made of 'special' material and cost twice as much ...

Probably still assembled in an Asian sweat shop by five year olds though

dmclite-3.0

Mikey23 wrote:

@ss good thinking but nope it has to be made of 'special' material and cost twice as much ...

Probably still assembled in an Asian sweat shop by five year olds though

Yeah but the stitching is so neat and tiny.

navrig

Cling film does the same job (allegedly).

Mikey23

Or pallet wrap...

sloppyschleckonds

How does it aid the cardio vascular system?

navrig

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

How does it aid the cardio vascular system?

Perhaps:

By compressing the surface veins, arteries and muscles, the circulating blood is forced through narrower circulatory channels. As a result, the arterial pressure is increased, which causes more blood to return to the heart and less blood to pool in the feet.

Same idea as compression stockings?

Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_stockings

Then again I may be wrong.......... my wife tells me I am regularly.

arran77

Kingstonian wrote:

I wore compression shorts when playing football (no, they don't crush your nuts!). May be a coincidence but once I started using them I stopped suffering from minor muscle strains.

If I wore compression shorts I wouldn't be suffering from minor muscle strains, it would be a major muscle that would be strained

sloppyschleckonds

Navrig wrote:

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

How does it aid the cardio vascular system?

Perhaps:

By compressing the surface veins, arteries and muscles, the circulating blood is forced through narrower circulatory channels. As a result, the arterial pressure is increased, which causes more blood to return to the heart and less blood to pool in the feet.

Same idea as compression stockings?

Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_stockings

Then again I may be wrong.......... my wife tells me I am regularly.

Sounds believable, when is the next Aldi sale?

Yossie

By compressing the surface veins, arteries and muscles, the circulating blood is forced through narrower circulatory channels. As a result, the arterial pressure is increased, which causes more blood to return to the heart and less blood to pool in the feet.


What a load of bollx - you're trying to tell me that major parts of the body can be affected by some cheap elasticated lycra sufficiently to add a sizeable benefit to sporting performance? Tosh.

Mikey23

My thoughts exactly...

I think there have been scientific studies that conclude it's all rowlocks too

Mikey23

http://www.bases.org.uk/write/Documents ... _18_19.pdf

Here's one that sits on the fence

Yossie

Then again, imagine TDN in compression clothing things. Now you're talking ................

pinno

arran77 wrote:

Kingstonian wrote:

I wore compression shorts when playing football (no, they don't crush your nuts!). May be a coincidence but once I started using them I stopped suffering from minor muscle strains.

If I wore compression shorts I wouldn't be suffering from minor muscle strains, it would be a major muscle that would be strained

I think you're dreaming out of the centre of your strained Glutamus Maximus.

Eat more fibre.

arran77

pinarello001 wrote:

arran77 wrote:

Kingstonian wrote:

I wore compression shorts when playing football (no, they don't crush your nuts!). May be a coincidence but once I started using them I stopped suffering from minor muscle strains.

If I wore compression shorts I wouldn't be suffering from minor muscle strains, it would be a major muscle that would be strained

I think you're dreaming out of the centre of your strained Glutamus Maximus.

Eat more fibre.

Ah, the wanderer returns, good of you to grace us with your company

Mikey23

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