The Overall Benefits of Compression Wear

Apr 12
18:00

2015

Robin Milton

Robin Milton

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Compression clothing is now seen as an essential part of the wardrobe, something we always ‘want to buy’ and must add to our active wear or sportswear collection, but what’s the real story behind compression garments?

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Do they really offer any performance advantages to be had from wearing them? Or are we only wearing them because our idols are? In this article,The Overall Benefits of Compression Wear Articles we explore the different features of compression tights, showing how they can improve your sports performance and assist with recovery.

Performance Benefits

The close-fitted second skin nature of a compression wear means that you often forget they’re there when you’re in the midst of a race or game. But it’s not just discreetness that they’re specially designed for, the pressure and controlled tightness in the tights is designed to keep your muscles held in a natural and secure position.

This muscular protection lessens the chances of injury by holding your body exactly the way it should, preventing muscles from moving and vibrating on impact. It’s not essentially the severe injuries that compression garments aims to protect, as a sound exercise routine will resolve it, but more so the little pulls and strains that can leave you feeling aching after a big game. Wearing compression gear will help with this while helping you to focus on what’s crucial: your sport.

Recovery Benefits

Compression tights can be of great advantage in endurance activities such as cycling and running. Not just during, for the same reasons as illustrated above, but also for recovery. After a five, or even twenty kilometre run, probability is if you’ve worked hard enough that your legs will be useless and stiff in the immediate hours after. We have all heard of using protein to recover, however, no piece of clothing, no matter how special will be able to provide and feed your muscles protein, instead it is suggested to use compression wear for another recovery benefit – enhancing blood flow to muscles.

Not only are the garments keeping your muscles in place while you exercise, but they also help pressurise the legs properly as you recover so that blood can reach them efficiently. This in turn increases oxygen delivery to working muscles in order to enhance their performance.  The circulation improvements also help the body to get rid of lactic acid and other metabolic wastes. The combination of these effects facilitates you to work at a higher rate for a longer time.

Types of Compression Wear

This garment comes in all shapes and sizes, and for each part of the body. You can get hold of compression shorts and compression pants and just about anything else you can think of that can be compressed. You can also check out the amazing range of compression clothing at many online branding stores.