I do 2 mins 30 secs every morning after waking up in 37F which is 3 Celsius. Best thing you can do is get out, dry off, and let your body self regulate its temperature back to normal. Doing the warm bath after the cold negates a good deal of the benefits involved with cold plunging. Everyone has different theories on this shit, but I’ve tested a whole shit ton of things and that’s what works best.
The benefits of cryotherapy are overstated. It will blunt pain/inflammation and healing, so the best use-case is after a day of challenging peformance in a multi-day competition. Given that it dampens/blunts/attenuates the same pathways responsible for gains/remodeling/healing/adaptation, then it is suboptimal in long-term use while training. It is, at least, preferable to abuse of pain meds like NSAIDs as cold exposure spares the liver and kidneys. One benefit, though it is already covered in training/lifting/doing difficult things, is the mid-cingulate cortex and other psychological gains from coping with self-imposed discomfort.
The benefits of cryotherapy are overstated. It will blunt pain/inflammation and healing, so the best use-case is after a day of challenging peformance in a multi-day competition. Given that it dampens/blunts/attenuates the same pathways responsible for gains/remodeling/healing/adaptation, then it is suboptimal in long-term use while training. It is, at least, preferable to abuse of pain meds like NSAIDs as cold exposure spares the liver and kidneys. One benefit, though it is already covered in training/lifting/doing difficult things, is the mid-cingulate cortex and other psychological gains from coping with self-imposed discomfort.
Ive done this before. I know exactly what lachlan is talking about with the feet. It was only my feet nothing else. Felt like they were getting stabbed. I had to have me feet out and the rest of my body in and i could stay in for a few minutes
Good morning boys and I hope all is well and I wish there was one of these by my house, so I always go for a dip in the ocean behind my house at least once a week
RU-vid algorithm boosting comment 💪 ... it's always the first few minutes that r the worse! takes the body time to acclimate. i dunno if i would wanna keep doing it, but seems that a person can get used to it too.
The benefits of cryotherapy are overstated. It will blunt pain/inflammation and healing, so the best use-case is after a day of challenging peformance in a multi-day competition. Given that it dampens/blunts/attenuates the same pathways responsible for gains/remodeling/healing/adaptation, then it is suboptimal in long-term use while training. It is, at least, preferable to abuse of pain meds like NSAIDs as cold exposure spares the liver and kidneys. One benefit, though it is already covered in training/lifting/doing difficult things, is the mid-cingulate cortex and other psychological gains from coping with self-imposed discomfort.
The benefits of cryotherapy are overstated. It will blunt pain/inflammation and healing, so the best use-case is after a day of challenging peformance in a multi-day competition. Given that it dampens/blunts/attenuates the same pathways responsible for gains/remodeling/healing/adaptation, then it is suboptimal in long-term use while training. It is, at least, preferable to abuse of pain meds like NSAIDs as cold exposure spares the liver and kidneys. One benefit, though it is already covered in training/lifting/doing difficult things, is the mid-cingulate cortex and other psychological gains from coping with self-imposed discomfort.
