Pre Athens Paula Radcliffe... what was she thinking?..

[Malarkee]

is it any wonder she wasn't fit for the event and caught some virus or something?...

I heard that after her training she would go and lie in a bath full of ice... am I missing something here is is that just plain stupid? All I can think of it doing is cramping your muscles up and making your body expand a ton of energy to try and keep you warm...

Surely a nice hot bath would have been better paula?

 

[Malarkee]

Are they really that effective though Whats wrong with baking soda or something?

 

[Malarkee]

Why don't you just type it into google and read up on it? England's rugby team use them after training and so do several football teams, Swedish people have been dashing out of saunas and into ice water for decades - there is plenty of good reasoning and science behind it.

Just looked it up, so its to do with the blood flow and tears in the muscle fibre? seems to make sense it just seems to counterintuitive...

Was just fishing for some information really...