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    Athlete Secrets ROAD TESTED

    Nov 03, 2019 3 minutes
    By Penny Carroll

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    LIZ CAMBAGE

    At five-foot-six and with literally no game, I’m sad to say I don’t have much in common with Aussie basketball legend Liz Cambage, except we’ve both endured a deep freeze.

    For three minutes. Cryotherapy – where you stand in a small chamber and submit your body to a -110°C liquid nitrogen blast – is basically an ice bath on steroids. The extreme cold sends your body into survival mode, explains exercise physiologist Mark Sullivan, owner of Cryoperformance on the Gold Coast

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