Some of Scotland’s World Cup stars visited University of the West of Scotland’s (UWS) Lanarkshire campus recently to experience training in demanding temperatures.
The university’s Extreme Environments Chamber – one of only two in the country and the only one in the West of Scotland can replicate environmental extremes for athletes.
Professor Vish Unithan from UWS said: “If you can have this acclimation eight, nine, ten days, then it can help to maintain the sort of sprint distances that these footballers need to maintain. It can also hopefully prevent any decline in the sort of high-speed running over prolonged distances that the players are going to have to cover.”
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