Friend of mine was recently raving about Skins and their recovery tights. They cost a fortune, anyone else got experiences with them? Do they work? Are they worth the money?
I use mine for recovery only. I love mine and wouldn’t be without them. They make a huge difference to me. I use them after running, cycling and weights. If I don’t wear them, I tend to get DOMs after weights.
I think they work best when put on asap after exercise and then sleep in them. I’ve had mine for maybe 3 years now, and they have been well worth the money.
The bf said he’d read a study recently which suggested wearing them for 24 hours to get the best benefit.
Okay someone has said SLEEP in them! I see you can but OMG I can’t do that Mr MC would run a mile..next I’ll be sleeping in socks! I don’t really want the ones for doing sport in, I have ample nice cycling shorts etc at the minute. I was thinking of the recovery ones the RY400’s I think they are called.
MMMM now a dilemma given the price! What other brands woudl you recommend looking at?
Do you have to use the recovery specific compression tights for the rest day, or can you just get the standard sports compression tights?
To me, compression is compression- and I can’t see how the recovery and sports ones would differ, but I’ve no experienve and would be interested to hear from someone who knows what they’re talking about.
Also, CRC have some big discounts at the mo’ on other compression brands ( Zoots and 2XU ) if that’s any good to anyone. Like I say, I don’t really know if they’re equivalent or not.
Loum exactly as you’ve said really! I could get dragged in to all the marketing stuff when reality is something else may well do the job! Who flipping knows .. !!
The tights are about £30 on Sports Pursuit, shorts even cheaper.
It’d be really nice if you register through my link, so I get a bit of money off! I did this for a fellow STWer, so hope he appreciated it as much as I would 😉 My link
You were just a tad too late, sorry 🙁 maybe someone else will pick up on it! not sure baout the Skins on there, some weird sizes left hence the cheap price.
There is a piece in the comic about a Kiwi study -if I’m remembering it correctly- they took a bunch of evenly matched ‘multi sport athletes’ (I think that means triathletes) and got them to do a TT.
1/2 were then given compression tights and the other 1/2 a placebo to wear for 24hrs. After the 24hrs the TT was repeated. The whole excercise was repeated a couple of weeks later (I think mixing up who did and didnt get the compression wear).
Conclusion was that those who wore the compression performed better, in the 2nd TT, than those who did not.
MC if you can, try on before buying. I tried on Skins and 2XU. 2XU weren’t a good fit on me (despite trying one or two diff sizes) I’m an XS small in skins tights and XXS small in the calve guards.
Thanks Dirtygirlonabike! The joys of Chainreaction now with their free returns it’s like walking into a shop but far easier as there are no shops near me that sell this gear!
Now I don’t have a clue what brand or what model? since we’ve decided they appear to work? Unfortunately I can’t go for those silly calve ones despite doing triathlons 😉
Damitamit that article is very useful! as all teh gubbins doesn’t make much sense but that lays it out! Now I just need to decide myself what I watn them for, ie jsut recovery or for running in too! That Barrington sports website looks good too. Thanks! Now any voucher codes for any additional discounts 😉
I think it was lycra tights with a different composition so they stretched more rather than compressioned (yes i did just make that word up 🙂 ), the idea being that the riders weren’t influenced by knowing if they had compression tights or not. I presume they were all told they did have them.
Odd theory ChunkyMTB so you have them, think they work but wouldn’t spend the money! So you don’t think the cost outweighs the benefit you gain from wearing now?
So only decision is A200 for using to run in then as recovery or just go for RY400 as solely recovery tights!? Decisions.
From what i’ve read, if you ride/run in them, your muscles won’t get damaged as much as they would without wearing them. In theory, you should be able to run for longer without muscles tiring. I don’t know if this is the case as i’ve not worn them for running but if i was running my previous mileage per week, then i’d wear them for running. I’d prob have the recovery ones too on the basis that i’d not want to lounge around in/sleep in the same ones as i’d just been exercising in. Most of the studies I’ve read have been focused on the recovery aspect rather than when exercising.