{"id":1757,"date":"2010-11-07T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:33:39","slug":"more-on-ice-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/more-on-ice-baths\/","title":{"rendered":"More on ice baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, the popular press report what they think will sell the papers, the results being half a story; <a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/index.php\/2010\/ice-baths-maybe-more-harm-than-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">my previous post<\/a> is a great example.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth going to the horses mouth, looking at the <a title=\"English Institute of Sport\" href=\"http:\/\/www.englishinstituteofsport.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English Institute of Sport&#8217;s<\/a> news, gives us a little more info.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn competition scenarios ice baths are beneficial because athletes  are required to perform again in close succession so their recovery  needs to be fast.<\/em><em><br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0evidence to suggest that if you constantly decrease the  stress in training that the body won\u2019t adapt, so long term use of a  recovery technique, such as an ice bath, should be reviewed to avoid any  detrimental effects on performance and to ensure that these techniques  have their biggest impact when needed during competition&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, it appears that ice baths do help with recovery, but they also inhibit the natural process of inflammation which is a vital component of muscles rebuilding and strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>Ice baths \u2014 useful during competition, but not so good during training.<\/p>\n<p>It also opens a whole new debate: as athletes, should we be seeking out ways to lessen the painful consequences of training? Or, should we accept them as a necessary part of training development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, the popular press report what they think will sell the papers, the results being half a story; my previous post is a great example. It&#8217;s worth going to the horses mouth, looking at the English Institute of Sport&#8217;s news, gives us a little more info. \u201cIn competition scenarios ice baths are beneficial because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}