If you’re looking for a way to decrease muscle soreness following a hard run, improve recovery time and enhance your overall relaxation, a pair of compression boots might be just the ticket.
Also known as recovery boots, these self-inflating sleeves apply pressure to different points on the legs and feet, theoretically helping to improve blood flow and reducing inflammation from small muscle tears.
But unlike a massage gun, these devices don’t come cheap, which is why £209 off the Hyperice Normatec 3 in the Amazon Prime Day sale is one of the best discounts we’ve seen so far.
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RW commissioning editor Kate Carter has been putting the Normatec 3 legs through their paces over the past few months, heralding them as a great way 'to calm down those achy legs and do your best to recover for another day’s running'.
These Hyperice compression boots also come with an accompanying app which can access your favourite running apps, automatically detect what running you have done and suggest an appropriate recovery programme. So once you are zipped in to the leg sleeves, it’s pretty much instant DOMs or twitchy legs relief time.
From the app, you can entirely customise your session – adjusting the areas to pay particular attention to – or activating a more intense ZoneBoost to – that niggly area, from your feet to upper legs.
The only real con to the Normatecs is that there is no carry case or storage device - you'll have to purchase this as an extra.
