FROM PEOPLE WITH A GREAT TRACK RECORD IN SPORT
The most popular and successful modern mobile ice bath systems in use around the world today are manufactured by iCool in Australia. It is a remarkable fact that in spite of a population of only 21 million, Australia ranks consistently among the world’s top 5 sporting nations. Australia ranked 4th in the world in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games and 6th at the 2008 Olympic Games, competing against more than 150 nations.
Also, Australia was the overall winning nation at the2006 Commonwealth Games, competing against athletes representing one third of the world’s population. Apart from the nation’s enormous enthusiasm for all sport, much of this remarkable success can be attributed to Australia’s many dedicated sports scientists and advanced training organisations and the new medical and endurance training technologies that they have developed. The iCool Recovery System is based on pioneering recovery and endurance research and the resulting technology developed from that research at the prestigious Australian Institute of Sport, plus years of field testing and the advice and support of many of Australia’s dedicated sporting coaches and sports medicine specialists involved in university research programs.
AUSTRALIA’S SECRET WEAPON AT THE 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES
Today, modern ice bath recovery systems are a part of every major sport around the world and iCool is the world’s number one provider of these advanced mobile systems, but the story of modern ice bath training for elite sport started less than 8 years ago.
At the beginning of the decade Australia was the host nation for the Olympic Games and the Government was providing funding for cutting edge research to help local athletes get a winning advantage. It had long been known that ice cooling of soft tissue and muscles had a marked positive effect on tissue trauma recovery and that athletes often reported marked improvements in endurance after immersion in very cold water. A specialists research team at the world renowned Australian Institute of Sport led by Dr. Shona Halson began a well funded research program with the aim of discovering the science behind this ice treatment phenomenon and to understand how it could be applied consistently and with the maximum effect to high stress sports. iCool, at the time a division of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of portable refrigerators, funded the additional research into the difficult technical problems involved in the development of very the small but powerful mobile cooling systems needed to make the new technology practical. The early trials attracted enormous interest among sports medicine specialists from around the world and demonstrated such clear and substantial benefits for athletic training, recovery and enhancing performance that many additional trials were carried out by other institutions in Australian and in several other countries that all helped to refine the optimum parameters for immersion times and temperatures for various sporting activities.
By 2004 the early trials were so encouraging that Dr. Halson decided to quietly trial the latest prototype of the system at the Athens Olympic Games where it was used extensively and successfully by the amazingly successful Australian Team. It was so successful in fact that it was reported in the prestigious British science magazine ‘Nature’ as “Australia’s secret weapon” and many believe it was one of the important factors that led to Australia’s astonishing success at the Games.
THE WORLD’S SECRET WEAPON AT THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES
Following the successes in Athens word spread quickly in the sporting world and demand grew rapidly for a practical ice bath system that could provide enough accurately chilled water anywhere to satisfy the training protocols that the specialists at the AIS had developed. Within 2 years research and design work on the hardware, electrical, electronic and safety systems was completed and iCool began delivering the first generation modern mobile ice bath systems. Cooling power and efficiency has been increased several times since then and sophisticated digital control systems have been added to increase convenience and reliability. Our latest systems are even more powerful, lighter and smaller. They were released in early 2008 in time to meet the huge demand from athletes from many nations competing in the Olympic Games in Beijing. The latest iCools are amazingly efficient and provides more than 3000 watts of cooling that is accurately controlled to fully meet the clinical requirements of all current Athlete Recovery projects.
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK THROUGH iCOOL UK
Please call us now on 0161 764 5530 to discuss further. Thank You
The most popular and successful modern mobile ice bath systems in use around the world today are manufactured by iCool in Australia. It is a remarkable fact that in spite of a population of only 21 million, Australia ranks consistently among the world’s top 5 sporting nations. Australia ranked 4th in the world in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games and 6th at the 2008 Olympic Games, competing against more than 150 nations.
Also, Australia was the overall winning nation at the2006 Commonwealth Games, competing against athletes representing one third of the world’s population. Apart from the nation’s enormous enthusiasm for all sport, much of this remarkable success can be attributed to Australia’s many dedicated sports scientists and advanced training organisations and the new medical and endurance training technologies that they have developed. The iCool Recovery System is based on pioneering recovery and endurance research and the resulting technology developed from that research at the prestigious Australian Institute of Sport, plus years of field testing and the advice and support of many of Australia’s dedicated sporting coaches and sports medicine specialists involved in university research programs.
AUSTRALIA’S SECRET WEAPON AT THE 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES
Today, modern ice bath recovery systems are a part of every major sport around the world and iCool is the world’s number one provider of these advanced mobile systems, but the story of modern ice bath training for elite sport started less than 8 years ago.
At the beginning of the decade Australia was the host nation for the Olympic Games and the Government was providing funding for cutting edge research to help local athletes get a winning advantage. It had long been known that ice cooling of soft tissue and muscles had a marked positive effect on tissue trauma recovery and that athletes often reported marked improvements in endurance after immersion in very cold water. A specialists research team at the world renowned Australian Institute of Sport led by Dr. Shona Halson began a well funded research program with the aim of discovering the science behind this ice treatment phenomenon and to understand how it could be applied consistently and with the maximum effect to high stress sports. iCool, at the time a division of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of portable refrigerators, funded the additional research into the difficult technical problems involved in the development of very the small but powerful mobile cooling systems needed to make the new technology practical. The early trials attracted enormous interest among sports medicine specialists from around the world and demonstrated such clear and substantial benefits for athletic training, recovery and enhancing performance that many additional trials were carried out by other institutions in Australian and in several other countries that all helped to refine the optimum parameters for immersion times and temperatures for various sporting activities.
By 2004 the early trials were so encouraging that Dr. Halson decided to quietly trial the latest prototype of the system at the Athens Olympic Games where it was used extensively and successfully by the amazingly successful Australian Team. It was so successful in fact that it was reported in the prestigious British science magazine ‘Nature’ as “Australia’s secret weapon” and many believe it was one of the important factors that led to Australia’s astonishing success at the Games.
THE WORLD’S SECRET WEAPON AT THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES
Following the successes in Athens word spread quickly in the sporting world and demand grew rapidly for a practical ice bath system that could provide enough accurately chilled water anywhere to satisfy the training protocols that the specialists at the AIS had developed. Within 2 years research and design work on the hardware, electrical, electronic and safety systems was completed and iCool began delivering the first generation modern mobile ice bath systems. Cooling power and efficiency has been increased several times since then and sophisticated digital control systems have been added to increase convenience and reliability. Our latest systems are even more powerful, lighter and smaller. They were released in early 2008 in time to meet the huge demand from athletes from many nations competing in the Olympic Games in Beijing. The latest iCools are amazingly efficient and provides more than 3000 watts of cooling that is accurately controlled to fully meet the clinical requirements of all current Athlete Recovery projects.
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK THROUGH iCOOL UK
Please call us now on 0161 764 5530 to discuss further. Thank You
