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Cold Water Immersion Blunts PWO Cell Swelling | 12mg Capsaicin Boost 1.5k TT Running Performance, Reduce RPE | BIA Underestimates Athlete's Body Fat-% by up to 10%

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If you want to show off your "guns" cold water immersion (CWI) may be counterproductive in the short- and long-run. In the hours and days after the workout, you'll miss the swelling, over weeks you'll blunt 'ur gainz. No, today's article is not about the effects of cold water on a man's "most personal parts". Rather than that, it's - at least in parts - about the latest study from the University of Trás-os-Montes & Alto Douro in Portugal which shows that the immediate post-workout application of cold water immersion will significantly reduce the swelling of your biceps you'd normally see last for days after a workout. This paper, alongside the latest research on the ergogenic effects of capsaicin supplements on short-medium distance running and the surprisingly position-depending inaccuracy of multi-frequency bioimpedance measurements of the body composition of collegiate football players, are the studies discussed in today'...

Using Ice / Cold Water Immersion After Workouts Will Impair Muscle and Strength Gains, as well as Vascular Adaptations

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4x fail - if you look at the latest cold-water immersion science. There are proven acute regenerative benefits of both cold water immersion and cold/ice application after exercise... cool? Not so cool, no. Two recent studies demonstrate: In the long run both will impair your gains. The studies from Japan (Yamane. 2015) and Norway + Australia (Roberts. 2015) were conducted independently and published almost simultaneously in the International Journal of Sports Medicine  and the  Journal of Physiology , respectively. Therefore, I'd like to discuss them one after the other, before I finally tie the knots between the studies in a conclusion some of you are not going to like. Learn more about hormesis and how antioxidants can also impair your gains Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? NAC Impairs Anabolic Effects of Exercise If Vitamin C is Low, Taking More is Good C+E Useless or Detrimental for Healthy People Vitamin C and Glucose Manageme...
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