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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 5020103, member: 8594"]
It’s mostly for show.  Like Eric15 said, there are some medical benefits (compression increase blood flow) but for D1 and pro athletes, those benefits are probably miniscule.  They don’t have blood flow problems.  The sedentary grandma who needs circulation around her feet would see more benefit from compression socks than an athlete would, for example.

It’s a mental thing more than a physical thing, imo.  Feel good, play good.  Whether part of the feeling good comes from the actual physical attributes of the compression sleeves, shorts, shirts, etc. or from looking good (in the athlete’s opinion) is ultimately inconsequential.

Baseball players come to mind in the extreme with this type of thing, for me.  They like to throw on all kinds of necklaces and eye black.  The difference is that those probably don’t do anything beneficial, but they like the look so they rock it.  More power to them.

Compression stuff is more in line with KT tape and cupping.  Potentially beneficial in small ways, but mostly to look cool/different.  Eventually, everybody uses them and players have to find new ways to look cool/different.  The fact that they have some basis in performance improvement is the justification for it.
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