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If you're interested in doing more work, being able to do more sets and reps per unit time and feel better doing it or to run further or to cycle further, then cooling the palms periodically as I described in the previous episode is going to be the way to go.
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It allows you to do more repetitions and more work at a given weight over time. So rather than getting 10 repetitions and then eight and then seven and then six through proper use of palmer cooling, one can do 10, 10, 10, 10, and even add sets.
That's certainly a performance enhancing tool. It's nothing you ingest your cooling your palms in a very specific way. That's very powerful.
Now I've just told you about studies in which we've had 300% increase in a month.
The typical protocol is to have people come in and do some endurance training so running on a treadmill and to have a condition where one group is actually doing palmer cooling while they are on a bike or on a treadmill and inevitably the outcome is that they can do more work. They can pedal further at a given speed, or they can run longer at a given speed than people who are not doing palmer cooling or who are receiving cooling by way of cold compress
Effects for instance, that have been documented showing doubling or tripling the number of dips that one can do in a relatively short amount of time or doubling of the number of pullups one can do or 14% increases in strength or even comparable degrees in increase in weight training output to people who are on performance enhancing drugs, et cetera, et cetera.
And they found that they went to 180 pull-ups, which is incredible. It's a near doubling.
Dr huberman out of Stamford neuroscientist he talks about Palmer cooling so we've been playing with that a little bit like there's some pretty remarkable research coming out Stanford about the effects of that both in strength training and in the endurance space