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