Cooling down

Additionally cooling down may reduce dizziness for professional or serious athletes and vocal performers after strenuous workouts.

It aids in decreasing the body's temperature, removing lactic acid from the muscles and increasing flexibility.

Half-time cooling down has proven to decrease body temperature and increase aerobic performance.

Australian elite sporting teams such as those in the AFL, Olympic teams, military and elite athletes across all sporting fields use cooling down vests to increase performance and gain a competitive advantage over their competition.

The skeletal-muscle pump assists in returning blood to the heart and maintaining cardiac output.

The heart will also need to beat faster to adequately oxygenate the body and maintain blood pressure.