Training Recovery

Post-exercise cold water immersion attenuates acute anabolic signalling and long-term adaptations in muscle to strength training.

The Journal of physiology2015n = 21 in the long-term study, 9 in the acute study

This paper reports two separate experiments on whether cold water after strength training blunts the adaptation to it. In the first, 21 physically active men trained for 12 weeks, twice…