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Cold Water or Whole Body Cryotherapy Which (if any) Shall You Use? Active Recovery = ↑ Testosterone = ↑ Gainz?

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The use of and effects of post-workout stretching and related purported recovery boosters on the adaptational response to sports is IMHO astonishingly under-researched (Barnett 2006). The latest issue of the  European Journal of Applied Physiology  features not one, but rather a bunch of interesting and (in many cases) practically relevant papers. Reason enough for me to address them in this year's first Exercise Research Update - a research update I will publish in form of two individual articles with the first one (the one you're about to read) addressing recovery techniques and their potential role in modulating your training results. More specifically, we are going to take a fresh look at the latest data related to the effects of different cooling techniques and the use of active recovery on your performance, size & strength gains... but now, without further delay, here's the gist + implication for today's studies. Both, hypoxia / BFR and compression ...
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Barbell Squats - Research Update: Bar Placement, ROM and Muscle Activation | Plus: What's 'Best' for Strength & Size?

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Where on your traps you place the bar makes a huge difference in biomechanics. This is not the first article in which I try to shed the light of science on the effects of full vs. partial squats. The effect of where you place the bar during the barbell back squat, however, hasn't been addressed in detail in previous SuppVersity articles. In fact, I would guess that the novices among the SuppVersity  readers may not even be aware that where you place the bar on your traps may significantly affect your biomechanics and, eventually, your training outcomes. Learn more about the squat and related exercises at the SuppVersity Partial Squat = Full Strength 100 Body Weight Squats ➯ Jacked Discontinue Sets Up Your Gais Full ROM ➯ Full Gains! Full-Body vs. Split for Athletes Squat, Bench, Deadlift for Gainz As Glassbrook et al. (2017) point out in their latest paper, there are two different variations of the back-squat, differentiated by the placement of the barb...
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