I had a minor out-patient surgery late last summer and I went to a physical therapist to re-had a bit afterward. And heat before stretching with ice after activity was the standard method they used, not only on me, but on everyone that I saw.
I think it is a standard recommendation to warm up before PE, here, but icing would be a bit of an obstacle with certain hangers or a manual routine.
1) Unless you are only doing one set, icing would be counter productive to a 2nd stretching set.
2) Also, if using a hanger that has to be released (clamp style) regularly, icing before the end of a set would be counter productive to the following sets.
Bib did say that he would heat the 1st half of a set, then remove the heat to cool down in the extended state for the 2nd half of a set.
Originally Posted by dangleman
There has been a lot of discussion about the medical practice of stretching ligaments by heating and stretching, then cooling them while still stretched - in essence, “freezing” the stretch.
I read an article on that here (somewhere?).
Using ice for the last part of a set might make sense, although for some reason I am not over the top about trying it. If I am not in a fully extended state, I wouldn’t want to short change my efforts..
But if I were to try it, the V hanger would lend itself to this. Because instead of several 20 min sets with a clamp style hanger, with a V hanger, someone could do, say, a one hour set and ice the last 10-15 minutes of the routine. But without a V hanger or not being sure whether someone is fully extended, the Bib 2nd half cool down seems reasonable in a hedging between the two sort of way.