Should I exercise before my session?
A cryotherapy session before exercise or event will heighten both your physical and mental performance by improving blood flow and oxygenation, boosting the metabolic rate, and activating adrenaline and endorphin release. You will have more energy, stamina, and less pain.
Cryotherapy after athletic exertion will speed muscle healing, cell renewal and recovery while reducing inflammation and pain. Ideally, you should utilize cryotherapy both before and after important athletic events.
All clients are recommended to engage in 5 to 10 minutes of light exercise post-cryotherapy treatment. This will stabilize your body’s temperature as well as promote vasodilatation (expansion of the body’s blood vessels).
Movement will induce more rapid vasodilatation of the vessels and capillaries and can extend the period of analgesia as well as feelings of well-being.