Andrew Huberman· PhD
Also, we don’t think that cold showers blunt hypertrophy the same that cold plunges post training do.
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Also, we don’t think that cold showers blunt hypertrophy the same that cold plunges post training do.
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in general you can do cold showers that's not going to be a problem you're not going to be in there very long and you're not going to get nearly as cold
And I should mention that it does not appear that cold showers disrupt the adaptations to strength and hypertrophy training, even if they're done immediately after strength or hypertrophy training.
And there is zero evidence that taking a cold shower after resistance training is going to limit strength or hypertrophy adaptation.