Welcome to Coach Cast, the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre’s podcast for athletics coaches. Coach Casts are designed to take both simple and complex topics from the various fields of coaching theory and explain them in an understandable fashion to coaches of all levels. Please feel free to seek more information on today’s topic by referring to the sources referenced in this script.

The topic of this week’s Coach Cast is “Icing, Heating and Contrast Baths.” These therapeutic modalities are ones that have been used for ages and have recently received significant attention attempting to understand how effective each treatment really is. In this podcast we discuss common applications of these methods as well as some results of experiments conducted on their usefulness.

Please visit our Media On Demand feature to access this week’s Coach Cast. The podcast script is also available for download via the articles section.