In a competition phase, recovery modalities like cold exposure are beneficial to maintain exercise quality and technical execution.

“Whereas in a competition phase where actually quality of exercise and quality of execution of skill and technical work has to be maintained, you want to throw the kitchen sink of recovery uh capabilities and recovery interventions in that scenario because you now you know the muscle building activity should be in the bank that should have been done in the general prepar preparatory work and um now you're focusing on technical execution.”