How do you prevent tired legs during winter sports?

Support Ski Socks for the smart winter sports enthusiast! 

Perhaps you recognize it… After a long day on the slopes, your legs feel tired and heavy. You're secretly glad to sit in the gondola occasionally, and after five, you collapse onto the couch with stiff calves and burning thighs. Why do you experience heavy legs as early as day two of your winter sports holiday? Can you prevent these tired legs while skiing and snowboarding? 
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How do those tired legs occur?

Many people don't think about it... While skiing and snowboarding, the muscle pump action in your calves is not optimal. Because your lower legs are virtually motionless in your ski or snowboard boots, blood circulation in your calf muscles is far from ideal. Often, winter sports enthusiasts experience tired legs, stiff calves, or restless thighs on day two or three. This 'heavy feeling' is easy to explain. It's also not at all strange that at the end of the day, all you want to do is quickly take off those heavy ski boots. Due to the static position of your leg in your ski or snowboard boot, the calf muscle pump action is limited. The blood vessels in your calves are not regularly and rhythmically compressed, leading to reduced blood circulation. The result is tired legs and, in some cases, even cramp-like symptoms.

What does the Herzog Support Sock do?

The Herzog Support Sock, or the Ski Sock, can prevent such discomfort. How does this work exactly? The sock compresses, meaning it pushes on your leg muscles in such a way that the highest pressure is applied to the ankle and decreases towards the knee. The blood in the veins, containing the waste products of the combustion process, is thus adequately drained against gravity, which also means that the supply of arterial blood is no longer obstructed. This results in optimal microcirculation. The result is that you feel less tired and can continue skiing or boarding problem-free for longer.

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What makes this ski sock so special?

The answer is simple: customization. The Herzog Support Ski Sock offers optimal performance thanks to its special measuring system. At Herzog, we recognize that every winter sports enthusiast has unique leg contours. For comparison: a 2-meter tall skier with shoe size 43 has different calf contours than an agile 1.70-meter tall snowboarder with the same shoe size. For an optimal fit, you need to measure your lower leg at several points. Do you want to determine your ready-to-wear size? You can easily see how to do this via the 'calculate your size' button.

No more cold feet

Do you always suffer from cold feet during your winter sports holiday? That's understandable, because your feet are far from your heart, so warm blood reaches them less quickly and easily. Especially not when the muscle pump action of your calves is significantly hindered in your static ski boots. With the Support Ski Sock, you are guaranteed warm toes. The sock has a slightly thicker footbed than our regular PRO Sport Compression Sock and is knitted with microfibers that guarantee ideal heat exchange.

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