Medically reviewed by Sarah Richards, DPM Key Takeaways Compression socks help improve blood flow and can be worn all day for reasons like reducing leg swelling or the risk of blood clots.Talk to your ...

What’s better than new gear? Free gear. Every single day of October, POWDER is doling out the goods to readers in our 31 Days of Giveaways. Another day, another giveaway! CEP Compression is handing ...

Compression clothing is among the fastest-growing athletic-gear genre. Whether it's shirts, shorts, leggings or sleeves for elbows or calves, there is a huge demand in skin-tight products that claims ...

View post: I Tested the 2026 Mazda CX-90 Turbo S—Here’s Why It’s My Favorite Sporty Family SUV Upper Body Wearing a tight, supportive shirt after sports or weightlifting can apply the kind of pressure ...

In a world where those of us into sports all constantly seek ever-marginal gains in performance, we decided to get the lowdown on the science of compression and look at how there could be a benefit ...

Maybe you've seen them in the gym, or even squeezed into them yourself: super-tight T-shirts, leggings, knee and calf sleeves, even tube tops. More and more athletes are wearing compression garments, ...

We’ve all got our biases, and mine is that I find compression garments uncomfortable. I don’t know why, but that’s just the way it is. Keep that in mind as you read what follows—because when it comes ...

I HAVE NEVER understood the obsession with compression in activewear. In the world of athletes, compressive gear is a regular topic. For the uninitiated, compression means your clothes squeeze you.

Athletes constantly look for ways to train harder, perform better, and recover faster. One tool that has gained widespread use among runners, cyclists, basketball players, and fitness enthusiasts is ...

Stephanie Pearson is a contributing editor to Outside, a 2023 National Geographic Explorer, and the author of 100 Great American Parks. That’s a good question. I’ve worn compression pieces that make ...