Using Heat During Decon?

I’ve just begun to use heat before and after my extender sessions. I have also changed my routine to try the “less is more” approach in lieu of the 4 plus hours per day approach. I have a few questions for the forum.

1.) I’m doing 2-3 35-40 minute sessions throughout during the day (morning-midday-evening) 4 Days on one or two day(s) off, depending on PI.

2.) Heat 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after, also heat during.

3.) Before the first daily session I stretch including V-stretching as part of the pre-stretch (10 minutes).

I’m thinking of doing heat only on off days for 30 minutes sometime during the day.

My main question is does anyone think that the heat will help encourage growth during my decon days.

Please let me know what you think about the heat alone days and my new routine. I will be grateful for any feedback. Thanks gentlemen!

P_h_i_l

Heat promotes blood flow. In my opinion including heat won’t hurt and possibly could help the healing process, not sure about additional growth from it alone.

Yes, heat 100% helps as blood flow is essential for healing. The faster you heal, the faster you can train again, which in turn, helps growth.

I would definitely recommend heat on rest days.

I’d say heat + soft massage for rest days. I also read that too much heat can be harmful. I just wouldn’t know how much is too much

I recently started using infrared light on rest days. I read some articles that IR helps in the recovery of injuries, improves blood circulation and collagen production.

I do 15 minutes on the ventral side and 15 on the dorsal side.

That’s great info… however, how do you know when you are using too much heat? I’m assuming that one does not use a thermometer to check a heating pad?

P_h_i_l