anyone ever tried a compex or marc pro for recovery?
just curious if anyone had any personal experience using either a compex or marc pro for recovery. Seems like an interesting idea. I just dont want to be the first one to try it...
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I cannot tell you whether or not my Marc Pro Works. What I can tell you is that I really like it. The guys I work with are all athletes and they each bought their own set of the pads and they all use it and like it. I primarily use mine on my quads (2 or 3 slightly different spots) or calves (outside, inside, middle) or shins (the small muscle that runs right along your shin), but right this second I'm using it on my lower back. I use it as a recovery tool. It's kind of a short "pulsing" type of shock that you can visibly see your muscle contract, but then like a millisecond later it releases. After 15-30 mins of this, the area just feels a little warmer and looser. Almost like you had a warm hot pad on or something. I "think" it does promote blood-flow to your tight muscles after hard workouts, which theoretically should cause better recovery.
I have never used a Compex, but understand that it can actually be used as a workout as well. I've heard of people putting it on the muscle and keeping it contracted for a wile in sort of an Isometric exercise. This might be helpful if say you hurt your foot, but wanted to still give your calve or quad some training stimulus. I think you can also use it in a recovery mode as well.
The Marc Pro is not cheap, but I certainly do not regret buying it.
My only hesitation is that often, one leg happens to be a little more sore than the other for one niggle reason on another... would be hard to pick which one to do if that happens, but I'll see what happens.
For the record, I'm never looking for a recovery from an 8 on the pain scale to a 2. This is more like if I started as a 6 it might be down to a 2.5 the next day if I use it and a 4.0 if I don't. Can I really tell this fine of a detail or is it all in my head? Who knows...? I also do a lot of other recovery things (or at least did more last yr in heavy training). But I'll stand by what I said earlier, I have no regrets in buying my Marc Pro...