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So I have been using the Linebreak calf guards and compression tights for quite a while now. In fact, I am wearing the compression tights as we speak (It’s cold in Cape Town today).

I must say that compression really does work. I have just completed my own little test over the past 2 months to see if they really do work. I noted the days I “kept it tight” and the days I never. I cycled and ran in both the calf guards and the tights. This is what I found:

Running

Athletes have been frustrated by the onset of muscular fatigue for quite some time now. Muscular fatigue results in loss of power and efficiency and occurs as a result of the depletion of muscular glycogen, a lack of oxygen and an increase in muscle lactic acid (increase in hydrogen-ion concentration). Muscular fatigue occurs during brief intense exercise. However over an extended period of time by training without significant recovery from muscular fatigue you will experience accumulated muscular fatigue. And recovery from this is not just a few days to a week… so you may want to avoid that.