Practical applications
RPE
This study results advocate for the use of cryostimulation before anerobic activities. Beyond the recovery benefits reported in the literature, cryostimulation may boost performance in the pre-execution phase. However, it is essential to evaluate the best timeframe to maximize the potential enhancing-performance effects. Cryostimulation may be also reducing the perception of effort and this effect could be crucial for coaches to modulate the training prescription of their athletes. Considering this result, athletes could potentially increase their external training load given the lower internal/perceptual load for the same external load. In fact, reducing RPE for the same external load could lead to a higher number of repetitions during an interval training session or a higher external intensity for each repetition.