Calling All Athletic Trainers

Polar Products provides many different options for coaches, athletic trainers and directors who want to ensure that their athletes can continue to receive outstanding care.

The Coach's Sports Therapy Kit is an essential, on hands kit for commonly injured joints. It includes an item to help every athlete - whether it is for a shoulder, knee or both. This kit can be applied for both cold and heat therapy. Coaches, athletic trainers and directors can help benefit their athletes with all of these items.

Everything included within a Coach's Sports Therapy Kit from Polar Products

The Polar Life Pod™ is another new, innovative way to assist athletes who overheat. Our product is a portable, collapsible immersion system that goes where you go. Ice- or cold-water immersion has proven to be the best, quickest to bring down the body temperature of an overheated athlete and it is recommended to "Cool First, Transport Second" from the University of Connecticut's Korey Stringer Institute. 

The Polar Life Pod™ can help an athlete who it up to 7' tall and weighs up to 400 lbs.

Please visit the NATA website for more information or find them on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Don't let the heat slow you down!

Many of us enjoy exercising outside on warm and sunny days, but it's important to remember that extreme heat (or overexerting yourself during hot days) can pose serious health risks. It is important to listen to your body during the heat! Heat exhaustion is a common reaction when the temperature goes up. It can cause dizziness, headaches, body stresses, fainting and cardiac problems.

The following are tips to heed to when preparing for an outdoor workout:

1) First (and most important!), don't forget to drink plenty of fluids well before your workout. Your body is about 60% water so plan accordingly. Drink before, during and after exercise.

Cool Comfort® Performance Half Vest

2) Dressing appropriately is also an important factor, so be sure to wear lightweight clothing so your body can release sweat. If you are exercising for more than an hour, be sure to change wet clothes to allow your body to continue to sweat naturally.

3) Avoid working out directly in the sun.

Take a hike in the woods,
and wear a cooling hat!

4) It's a good idea to take a 10 minute break for each 30 minutes of working out.  If you start to feel dizzy, have a headache, or experience muscle cramps, you should stop, rest, rehydrate and cool down.

Cool Comfort® Performance Vest

5) Cooling the body before, during and after exercise can help mitigate the dangers of overheating. Check out Polar's full line of Cool Comfort® cooling apparel for athletes, and learn more about pre-cooling, post-cooling and cooling after activity.

Improved performance can be an added benefit of pre-cooling!  Check out this article: "Exercising in the heat? Cool down for better performance"

Stay safe and be cool as you workout in the heat!

Polar Life Pod®

Did you know? Ice water immersion is the most effective way to quickly cool an overheated athlete. The Polar Life Pod® is a patent pending, portable, collapsible immersion system to facilitate the rapid cooling of athletes experiencing heat related illness, heat exhaustion, heat stress and heat stroke. Visit www.polarlifepod.com to see a graph showing the effectiveness of various cooling techniques.

Drum Roll Please... for the Polar Life Pod®!

Now that the sun is shining, the snow has stopped and the days are warm again...  it's time to think about summer! With summer comes the heat, and it's always best to be prepared for any heat-related situation. 

Polar Products is proud to introduce the 

Polar Life Pod®

The optimal piece of equipment for cold-water immersion! 

NEW on-demand immersion system
to assist in rapid cooling of athletes

In 2014, National Athletic Trainers’ Association released an update to their guidelines for managing heat stress in athletes. The NATA Exertional Heat Illness Position Statement identified immersion in cold water as “the most effective way to treat a patient with exertional heat stroke” and recommends cooling the athlete first before transporting. 

The Polar Life Pod® is the simplest solution 

for immediate cold-water immersion.

The Polar Life Pod® facilitates on-demand cold water immersion and convenient for coaches and athletic trainers to have on the sideline for rapidly cooing overheated athletes. It is made out of a heavy-duty PVC and is capable of fitting athletes up to 7’ tall and weighing up to 400 lbs. The Polar Life Pod® requires only 40-80 gallons of water, depending on athlete size!

The Polar Life Pod® is packaged ready for use in a convenient gym bag.

The Polar Life Pod® stands apart from other available immersion systems. First and foremost, the Polar Life Pod® is designed to be collapsible and portable - it even comes with a convenient gym bag to carry!

Additional features include a floating head support, digital thermometer to monitor water temperature and a full length anterior 2-way zipper.

The inventor of the Polar Life Pod®, Mike Laycox, ATL, EMT-P, is a Licensed Athletic Trainer, former Paramedic and a Certified Emergency Room RN with over 30 years of clinical sports medicine, emergency room and EMS experience.

Bill and Mike testing an early version of the Polar Life Pod®

Visit www.polarlifepod.com for more information.

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