Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

And today we are going to talk about a thing called pneumatic compression and whether or not

some fancy looking air-filled boots can play a role in our workout recovery. And I also invited Dr. Jeff

Martin, an expert in physiology, to take a deep dive and look into this stuff with me. Recovery is,

well, a complicated fitness area to navigate. It means different things to different athletes,

and each one of those athletes

has their favorite recovery ritual. And the problem gets compounded even more when you introduce

something as complex as compression. It can be applied statically or intermittently, and it varies

from very gentle pressure to very intense medical

support. So, as you can imagine, there are many factors to consider when you ask yourself the

question, does compression truly aid in athletic recovery? To help me get through this topic,

and to help us understand how a device like the Norma Tech external pneumatic compression system works, I brought in a fellow named Jeff

Martin. My name is Jeff Martin. I received my PhD in health and human performance. I presently

work as an assistant dean of basic medical sciences and

an associate professor of physiology at the DeBus College of Osteopathic Medicine at Lincoln Memorial

University in Knoxville. And I've had market interest and have been involved in research with

external pneumatic compression for quite some time now.

All right. Let's start here.

Compression technology, well, it's confusing.

To make matters worse, the message behind it can actually be misleading.

The intersection of research and marketing creates confusion.

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