This year’s Wimbledon is played in extreme heat. Monday was even the hottest opening day of the tournament in history. Temperatures reached 32.3 degrees Celsius. The current record of the first day of 2001 was 29.3 degrees Celsius.
TV cameras have therefore captured many tennis players as they put pockets with ice on the face, neck or hands.
Normally a person sees how tennis players in the heat put cold towels rather than directly ice pockets.
At first glance, it sounds like a good idea from which a hobby athlete can be inspired, who wants to play tennis or other sport in these heat. But it does not really have to be.
In the text, we will explain what cooling techniques are effective, but also how to tell you that you already need a special cooling.
The fitness coach of Slovan Bratislava football players Roman Švantner explains in the example of Slovan players what cooling techniques helped them in the matches of the Champions League.
In amateur athletes to be careful
Švantner says that when he saw the tennis players on the Tennis players, he was surprised by the ice pockets. “It may be that
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