Introduction
PBC, perceptual fatigue, pain
EVENTS, PBC
In high-performance sport, coaches and sports scientists strive to identify novel interventions to enhance performance maximizing the physical, psychological and behavioral state before a competition [Pre-training typically involves a combination of passive and active elements which can enhance exercise performance [Cryotherapy is a relatively new clinical intervention used in different medical treatments to alleviate pain derived from inflammatory conditions [The utilization of cryostimulation techniques before physical efforts is also known as precooling [In particular, the new transportable models of cryo-saunas have increased the diffusion of partial-body cryostimulation (PBC) treatments before races and training [In this study, the effects of PBC on running performance were evaluated with two 3000-m tests at the speed of the first and second ventilatory threshold, and before a time to exhaustion test at 110% of the maximal aerobic speed (MAS). We aimed to test if PBC could be applied as a prior to competition performance enhancement methodology in middle-distance events. Our hypothesis was that running performance would have been improved by cryo-exposures, along with lower value of perceptual fatigue.