I regularly take an ice bath after my workout because otherwise I would keep sweating for hours. After I stay 12 minutes in my ice bath, my sored muscles don't hurt anywhere and I don't sweat anymore. It is as well my little meditation time and focus on my deep breathing. But I don't never do hot and cold, hot and cold!☺
The only reason I condition myself to the discomfort of cold showers is for when the UK Government cut of the electricity OR put me in the Gulag. . . . not sure which will come first.
33 degree water in TX? Well water in upstate NY runs about 45, plenty cold enough for me when i choose to subject myself. I know it is a stress by the way i suppress my desire to hop around and scream like a little bitch everytime i get back into it.
I think the only thing ice/cold does and contrast is vasodilation. I have been doing it for years. But there is also a psychological challenge to resist "panic" and this should not be done soon after training. If you train in the morning, do it in the afternoon. If you train in the afternoon, you can do cold plunge in the morning. WIM Hof breathing is also an important part of it.
@@rodgerbroome it doesn’t. Anything besides eat/sleep/roids that lowers soreness lowers adaptation. If you want to recovery to work your manual labor job fine, otherwise it’s bad for traininf
From what I have gathered after listening to many pod casts is that cold plunges after a hypertrophy work out help reduce inflamation, which is your body's natural response to help in the recovery process. In other words, you are not helping your body achieve the full benefits of your work out. If this is correct, then so is Rip!
@@javi8129 Low intensity high rep work to get blood flow into a specific area. Stuff like walking or backward sled drags for knees, band push downs for elbows, jefferson curls for low back.
@@Jtking3000 ''Active recovery'' is a metaphor in the very small world of elite sports, turned oxymoron in the world of enthusiasts. It means ''going through the motions, covering tehnical or tactical aspects, on an off day, despite the interfearance with the energetical aspect of recovery, because, as elite athletes, we can and it's worth it''. For your typical 3-hour marathon runner, recreational tennis player or hobbyist lifter that speaks of ''active recovery'' it could only mean ''slower recovery''.
"air of superiority from doing something hard"...... as opposed to the chemically induced "air of superiority" that comes from pumping yourself full of TRT? At least one can potentially help someone build some character guys.....
