Deliberate cold exposure immediately after resistance training blunts hypertrophy and reduces muscle protein synthesis.

“And the short answer that I was able to arrive at on the basis of a review article that I'll talk about in a moment and some other studies as well, is that if your main goal is hypertrophy and strength, it is probably best to avoid cold water immersion and ice bath immersion in the four hours immediately following that strength and or hypertrophy training.”

“Again, if your main goal is to achieve hypertrophy or strength or some combination of those, probably best to avoid cold water immersion up to the neck or ice bath immersion up to the neck immediately after strength and hypertrophy training and extending out to about four hours after that training.”

“However, several studies have found that cold water immersion after resistance exercise training blunts some muscle hypertrophy.”

“Dr Luke Van Lon who was a a guest on the podcast as well had done some he has done some research on that in fact showed that doing doing deliberate cold exposure like a cold bath um immediately after resistance training workout does blunt hypertrophy I mean so that's yeah muscle muscle protein synthesis all goes down if you get in the cold ride afterwards”

“in fact I think a lot of the evidence would suggest the opposite lately where getting in cold immediately after resistance exercise in particular seems to blunt some of the hypertropic benef benefits um there's a lot of press about those studies now where it's like avoid the cold after your resistance training workout”