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Should the Silver Ferns win their way into tomorrow night's final, they will have the ice buckets lined up waiting in the changing room.
But the champagne bottles will have to wait another day. These buckets are reserved for aching Silver Fern legs.
Immediately after every game's warm-down at these world championships, the Ferns rush back to the changing rooms for their "hot and colds" - one part of an extensive recovery process the world champions go through during the intense eight-day tournament.
So, it's straight from the frying pan into the freezer - the infamous post-match dunking begins with jumping into waist-deep barrels of freezing ice-water for one minute, then into a hot shower for another minute.
The reason behind it, Ferns physio Sharon Kearney says, is that netball is essentially an "eccentric" activity.
Eccentric exercise is where constant jumping and landing tends to stretch the length of the muscle while it's under tension, making it ache. The proteins in the muscle come "unzipped" and the hot and cold therapy helps them recover faster.
Rugby and basketball teams have been known to use the hot and cold contrast bins, too.
While most of the Ferns have got used to the shock treatment, shooter Jodi Te Huna says some will still gasp at the cold jolt "no matter how many times we do it".
For the last three days of this tournament, the Ferns will potentially play every late-night game starting at 8.10pm.
"It's full-on, but we're prepared for it. We've mimicked it in our training camps over the last few months," Te Huna says.
"After our recovery, we go back to the hotel for a post-match meal and so we're getting to bed around midnight. We leave the game debrief to the next morning and we sleep well."
