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Compression Garments - The Recovery Enhancer You're not Using (Yet?) - Meta-Analysis: Gymrats May Benefit Most

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Is it funny, stupid or tragic that compression garments are advertised most heavily to endurance athletes who benefit the least, while resistance trainees are supplied with useless lifting shoes and tons of questionable supplements, yet not educated on the significant recovery benefits of wearing compression garments? Maybe it's simply because we don't fully understand how they work yet. No, I don't use them myself, but after reading the latest (and most comprehensive) meta-analysis of the use of compression garments and its effects on recovery in sports I start to believe that I may be - just like you - missing out... Let's  not move too fast, though, as the authors, Freddy Brown, Conor Gissane, Glyn Howatson, Ken van Someren, Charles Pedlar, and Jessica Hill point out, the "literature is clouded by conflicting results and uncertainty over the optimal conditions of use" (Brown 2017) - and I would add: it's full of potential bias due to sponsorships. ...
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Things that Belong into Your Gymbag: A Well-Adjusted Boil & Bite. Study Shows Decreased Cortisol Response After Intense Exercise with Custom-Fit Performance Mouthpiece

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Image 1: An Under Armour Performance Mouthpiece - hitherto not a bodybuilder's 1st choice from the Under Armour line-up; something that may change when Cutler & co get wind of its effects on post exercise cortisol levels ;-) Any (semi-)professional boxers out there? No? Football players? Ice-hockey? Lacrosse? Did you ever think of wearing your mouthpieces in the gym? No? Well, I guess then you have not heard about the surprising performance enhancement the stabilization of your temporomandibular joint by a well-adjusted mouthpiece may have on exercise performance and recuperation, have you? Studies into the effects of mouthpieces on exercise performance date back to the late 1970's and early 1980's, when Stephen David Smith published two studies on the effects of mouthguards and jaw posture on strength and exercise performance in the New York State Dentist Journal ( Smith. 1978 ; Smith. 1982 ). In spite of that, a proper, experimentally verified explanation for th...
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