SSC

A football club in the play-offs jumps into an ice bath after a match. A bodybuilder in the off-season walks around it like the plague. Both are right – and fresh research explains why. What did 64 physically active participants do, an RCT, the Gang et al. study, published in PLoS ONE in April 2026. All completed an exhausting stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) protocol – repetitive plyometric jumps that well...