Quote (GaFaSAbSoLuT @ Dec 13 2022 04:37am)
Look better, there's plenty of information about how reducing inflamation reduces adaptation. Ice cold baths post training reduce adaptation and therefore stall progress. Ice cold baths on rest days are good.
Quote (M7Kujata @ Dec 13 2022 05:52am)
This.
Plus just recently there has been a study about how good ice baths are pre workout! You take your icebath, let your body warm back up again, then after like 10-30min start workout and it has very beneficial effects for hypertrophy and strenght training
Gonna need some links for all these claims.
Every good and recent study I find on ice baths say that it’s no better than active recovery. In fact the idea is that prostaglandins heal tissue and by taking ice baths you reduce inflammation, the body’s natural healing process, thereby reducing prostaglandins that get to the tissue and delay healing.
And here’s a bit:
“ Athletes commonly use cold water immersion to recover after intense exercise, based on the belief that it provides physiological benefits that expedite return to training and competition.
However, mounting evidence indicates that when used regularly, cold water exercise can diminish long-term gains in strength and muscle mass after strength training (Peake, 2020). “
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7339943/Just wanna remind everybody that just because you hear something, doesn’t make it ideal or even true. Bro science is rampant.