Ben Greenfield explains how NormaTec recovery boots work: a compressor applies graduated compression from your feet up, moving pooled metabolites and improving circulation to ease heavy, fatigued legs. Use them for about 20 minutes at the end of the day for noticeably lighter legs.
Hey, I'm Ben Greenfield, just working away here in my basement. And just when you thought I couldn't.
Get any nerdier, I decided to get more nerdier and put on a pair of space boots.
Now, what I'm wearing right now are called normatex.
If you've ever been standing all day, you've gone on a run, and the next day or that night felt like.
Your legs were leading, like you had bricks on your feet.
Then a lot of times all that is is not a bunch of muscle damage, but it's metabolites in blood that pools in your extremities.
Now, I was not really a believer in these things until I wore them at an Ironman Expo. After I'd been on my feet all day, I stood up after 20 minutes and it was literally like I'd been resting for two days. My legs were light as a feather.
So now what I do is I put these on at the end of the day. Because I spent all day, like standing at my standing workstation or running or working out. I put these on at the end of the day, I wear them for 20 minutes, I take them off, stand.
Up, and my legs are literally super duper light. It's crazy. So how do they work? Basically, there's a compressor.
These were designed to gradate the compression, starting with the feet pumping up towards your upper body.
So when you flip it on, the.
First thing it does is it feels out your legs to decide how much compression to actually put on based on your leg size. And then it starts at your feet. It gradates that compression all the way up, releases the compression, goes back down, and then starts at your feet again.
So you can leave it cycling for 10, 20, 30 minutes. I've watched an entire movie with these things on. I've taken a nap with them on. Anyways, though, I honestly was not really a believer in these things again until I actually got a chance to put them on, wear them for a long time and see what my legs felt like afterwards. So you can check them out@BenGreenfieldFitness.com NormaTech.
Yes, they are nerdy. Yes, they're right up there with freaking.
Like, inversion tables and blue light blocking glasses. But I mean, when it comes to better living through science, this is about.
As good as it gets, baby.
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