‘Cool invention helps tired players bounce back’

SFGate.com has an article on a new device which was developed by Stanford biologists that could make steroids a thing of the past.  By drawing blood to the hand and cooling it in a chilled device incredible gains were noted in athletes, all without the use of injections.  The Glove is definitely a green solution to an age old problem.  Now, if someone would just pass this on to those Olympic athletes that seem hell bent on doping.  From the article:

Their first “aha” moment in cooling came after they talked their assistant Vinh Cao into doing his regular workouts in the lab instead of at the gym. His routine included 100 pull-ups. One day, Grahn and Heller started using an early version of the Glove to cool him for 3 minutes between rounds of pull-ups. They saw that with the cooling, his 11th round of pull-ups was as strong as his first. Within six weeks of training with the cooling breaks, Cao did 180 pull-ups a session. Six weeks later, he went from 180 to 616.

“I’ll never forget the number 616,” said Heller. “He tripled his capacity in six weeks. We were like, ‘Wait a minute, this is crazy!’ “

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