This is not a story about steroids. But it is about improving your abilities on the playing field. Using technology as sophisticated as any developed in traditional fields of science, athletics companies have designed this equipment to make you better, stronger, faster and healthier. It’s funded by absurd amounts of money and validated by the best athletes in the world. And if you’re lucky, it will be sitting in your gym bag soon.
So how is this thing (if I'm ever lucky to get anywhere near it with all the high tech going on there and the price I'll have to pay to nike or reebok or whoever makes it) better than an hour of chilling out in a cool bath??? It works on my whole body, it sure enough "protects skin from contact with a freezing surface". It weights a lot, but not on me. It's still less costly to prepare, and it's also rather pleasant. The only downside I can see is that no money goes to the sports goods company. If you can't afford a bath, I reckon a cool shower might do it. Of course we don't all have showers, so you might have to skip to your local river. Or just get wet somehow and stand in the wind for a bit.
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