If there were a drug that had an identical effect, it would be banned, of course. Or heaven forbid, a gene therapy. Apparently we've got some kind of huge mental distinction going between outright transhumanism and a little temporary cyborging.
When you lift weights your muscles break down and release proteins into your bloodstream. I've heard that if you do things like 1000 bench presses with just the bar then you can get so much muscle breakdown that the protein can actually cause liver damage. If that is true then that is something I would worry about when using this device. You are basically circumventing your body's defense mechanism to prevent that from happening. If I were a coach I'd probably have the athletes do some bloodwork to make sure this wasn't a problem, especially for college kids who are likely to be drinking and such in addition.
I keep track of my excersize performance - amount of work, heart rate and ambient temperature. I have certainly noticed positive correlation - for every centrigate of room temperature drop I perform about 1% more work (keeping the heart rate the same in all cases).<p>But this. Wow. 1000 push ups at 65 years old? Truly dramatic. I should buy one.
This is crap. Why do you guys accept a press release from the company as fact? Better than steroids my a$$! Can it make you gain 20lbs of muscle in a month? Doubt it.<p>Anyway, this technology has had ample chance to prove itself via peer reviewed studies and to my knowledge has never had any results confirming their claims.
I participated in this study at Stanford for a while. The results are pretty dramatic. I doubled the number of pull ups that I could do in six weeks and went from being able to do 12 reps of 155 on bench to 12 reps of 175.
The idea is pretty old too:
<a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/19/icebox-on-wrist-to-cool-the-whole-body/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/19/icebox-on-wrist-to...</a>
I've got the opposite kind of thing going on here in my life, with a super-warm, and that's putting it politely, laptop.<p>Can these guys do anything for me, I wonder?