Ice Baths: Love em' or hate em'

Anybody else do em? I'm just curious on how often if at all you guys take ice baths.

I do it and i love it. Do u actually fill a tub with ice or do u do what i do and mix like 2 trays of ice with cold water in ur tub.

eh I havent lately...

I dont think they really make my legs feel "fresh" or anything. But I take them anyways.

Through_the_Pain wrote:I do it and i love it. Do u actually fill a tub with ice or do u do what i do and mix like 2 trays of ice with cold water in ur tub.

I try and use whever ice i can get my hands on, typically its just whatever our freezer makes and some tupperwares that i fill with water

if i'm at a hotel or something before a race i love using those machines and completely filling up the tub

I like them, but I usually only take them during the season. Sometimes we do it as a team, but I imagine it's a little weird for people walking by to see 7 girls all standing around in trashcans looking cold.

QUESTION

Do ice baths work better if you take them right after practice?

I usually take mine a couple hours after I get home etc.. so maybe thats why they dont work.

i sometimes take them. when i do, i feel great afterwards.

love them...they are really painful at first but then it feels so good

and someone is probally going to use that in a perverted way but i am talking about ice baths

Pinthin wrote:QUESTION

Do ice baths work better if you take them right after practice?

I usually take mine a couple hours after I get home etc.. so maybe thats why they dont work.

I always thought so (coach says it has something to do with closing off capilaries, but I don't really know). Maybe try one right after practice and see if it helps more than the later ones.

Ice baths = love

Love and Hate. So painfull, but so benifitial.

just got out of one, lol

I accually took my first ice bath today, it was more painful then I thought it would be, but it seemed to make my legs more refreshed right after and was worth the pain so imo IceBaths = <3

I've never done them. How are you supposed to do it without a tall container like a trash can?

FinishingKick wrote:I've never done them. How are you supposed to do it without a tall container like a trash can?

You can use a bathtub, or a plastic crate.

i love ice baths. at first its so so cold but then it gets relaxing and i don't mind it.

Ice baths are great... nothing like one after a very hard workout and great 2 days before a race

Is it possible to do too many. During summer i find myself doing them 6-7 days a week

PCNQtrack wrote:Is it possible to do too many. During summer i find myself doing them 6-7 days a week

That's probably fine. According to my coach, we can take them as many times as we want without being harmful.

If you're cold and warm up too fast your heart can stop, right? How come something like that doesn't work for taking ice baths when you're really hot?

FinishingKick wrote:If you're cold and warm up too fast your heart can stop, right? How come something like that doesn't work for taking ice baths when you're really hot?

I would not recomend taking them right after a run because its a real shock... Try to get a really good stretch in/cool down before you take them that way your body temp/heart rate has time to decrease from where it was during your run. Also never run directly after one. Give your body time to warm up then get a real good warm up in before doing anything too dificult.

Thanks.

FinishingKick wrote:If you're cold and warm up too fast your heart can stop, right? How come something like that doesn't work for taking ice baths when you're really hot?

it's not the same, and it only is supposed to cover your legs.

ice baths in the summer never work for me because the water is too warm. i put the ice in the "cold" water and it melts right away. it helps a little bit though, so i do one once a week.

AudienceOfOne wrote:ice baths in the summer never work for me because the water is too warm. i put the ice in the "cold" water and it melts right away. it helps a little bit though, so i do one once a week.

Do you have ac?