Dr. Andy Galpin

Muscle soreness, it seems pretty clear based upon the data that is available that cold water immersion is more effective than something like cryotherapy or a cold shower.

there has been some papers that showed crowd therapy itself did help with muscle soreness, but if you stack them again against the cold water immersion, the water...

wins.

So we really never use cryotherapy.

If you're going to use something like a cold shower, then there's, there's other reasons for it.

I don't think I would be, I wouldn't put my money on cold showers doing much for muscle soreness, right?

Again, many other reasons why one could do it, but that would not be the primary goal if we're using it for that.

So right out the gates.

Now, it does work.

And many studies have been done.

And I would say our anecdotal experience, my personal experience, our coaching experiences would support that.

Generally, people are going to be a little bit less sore when they go in it.

Do we do it immediately post-workout for people trying to grow muscle?

No.

many in studies now, and I feel like every couple of weeks another one comes out and I'm like, good gracious, we know already.

We know already.

Stop doing this.

Stop doing that work.

We know it's not a good idea.

The questions that come up then next usually are, okay, so how long post-exercise do I have to wait?