[@RenaissancePeriodization] Cold Immersion Is Even More Worthless Than We Thought? (New Study)
Link: https://youtu.be/uhwvH6pVDOw
Duration: 13 min
Short Summary
Dr. Mike discusses a comprehensive meta-analysis of 30 randomized controlled trials (527 participants, 2008–2025) finding that cold water immersion reduces muscle growth stimulus when used within an hour after training and does not meaningfully restore strength or vertical jump performance. He declares "the era for cold water immersion" for performance recovery over, noting that partial-body immersion works no better than whole-body immersion, soreness and creatine kinase reductions largely vanish after publication bias correction, and the study population was nearly all male.
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