Andrew Huberman· PhD
doing cold water plunging after a workout design to generate hypertrophy or strength gains is not a good idea
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doing cold water plunging after a workout design to generate hypertrophy or strength gains is not a good idea
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whereas cold seems to sort of blunt the effects so the positive effects you got to work out then you go in the sauna yeah and then maybe don't take a cold shower just take a warm shower or something yeah keep sweating but again I don't think I don't I don't know if there's any research on like on the time like like length like how long you would want to wait necessarily but I mean usually if I do if I have a good workout I will you know I'd be do out do like cold later in the day but I won't immediately follow my workout with with cold water immersion
the only the only context in which you wouldn't want to do it is immediately following exercise and I don't know exactly what the how much of a time buffer you would want between your workout session and the Coldwater immersion but it does seem to blunt some of the positive like the adaptation effects of of exercise
And realize this guys, if you're going for strength gains or size gains with your muscles, doing cold plunge after your workout can mitigate some of those gains.
but I think for resistance training or for uh andu training it's you shouldn't be using it at least not acutely after the exercise session
Um cold water immersion on the other hand, I mean this is something it's it's funny because it's really um it's become popular in as a recovery tool and um I don't I don't there's a lot of people that I've spoken to, you know, friends that didn't know it could blunt adaptations, particularly, you know muscle hypertrophy.