Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you are somebody who experiences a lot of delayed onset muscle soreness, taking a cold shower after your training or getting into a cold immersion after your training, even if it's a few hours later ought to help.
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if you are somebody who experiences a lot of delayed onset muscle soreness, taking a cold shower after your training or getting into a cold immersion after your training, even if it's a few hours later ought to help.
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it might be worth it for you to accelerate that recovery process by a couple of days so that you don't miss so much training
but at other times it's a great tool for reducing inflammation shifting one's mental and physical state in the great Direction
There is some evidence that cold-water immersion, we can kind of get into this, might expedite, quote unquote, "recovery" so that you're not going to be as sore. So, if the recovery has to do with getting back to trainability levels so that you're reducing soreness...and heat, by the way, is another thing, which generally does not seem to have negative effects at least.
Muscle soreness. It seems pretty clear based upon the data that is available that cold water immersion is more effective than something like cryotherapy, right? Or cold shower.
So mostly mostly people can use it for their muscle soreness.