Andrew Huberman· PhD
Proper cooling of specific body sites (NOT whole body cooling) can dramatically enhance work output (strength training & endurance).
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Proper cooling of specific body sites (NOT whole body cooling) can dramatically enhance work output (strength training & endurance).
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I don't know if all of you are following this but these are the sorts of increases in exercise output that are absolutely staggering and that's why professional teams and the military and others capitalized on them very quickly and use these.
And the important thing is that if they were to come back after doing 600 pull-ups or 500 pull-ups, you might say, well, wow that's going to create a situation where recovery is going to be absolutely impossible. They could come back, not use the cooling and they still saw a highly significant increase in the amount or the number of pull-ups or dips or bench press weight that they could do, okay?