Post-exercise cold exposure might blunt hypertrophy, but this effect is not observed in individuals who train hard and use cold exposure.

“Yes, not much evidence that a cold shower is bad after hypertrophy training.”

“Cold for recovery vs. hypertrophy”

“I actually am of the mind that if you're training really hard, sure, getting in the cold afterwards might blunt some hypertrophy that is what the data tell us. Andy Galpin is kind of the expert on that literature.”

“because depending on the protocol, the timing of the protocol um and other things that you're doing, it may blunt some muscle hypertrophy from your resistance training and that's something to keep in mind as well.”

“we probably tend to use cold a little bit more judiciously because it can blunt adaptation to exercise, right? Which is not what we're trying to do.”