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    Ice baths and cooling body parts after excercise are methods used by some athletes to enhance their results.
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    Interestingly the evidence that exists isn't strong enough to support this method. Significantly lower increases in strength and muscle size where noted in groups cooling their arm after exercise compared to people not cooling.
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    The cooled group did, however experience less exercise-induced muscle soreness and felt less tired after training. Since it is very hard to create a "blind" control group to cooling, it is hard to say if this perception is a placebo effect of not.
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    For now we know that there are negative effects on strength and size. The improvements in muscle endurance were not statistically significant, but tended to be higher in the cooled group.
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    Ice baths effectively reduce post exercise pain caused by inflammation. The trade-off is that reducing inflammation will also stagnate muscle growth in the long run.
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    This is similar to the consequences of using anti-inflammatory NSAIDs to reduce muscle soreness and as we've said before: if used in moderation, the negative effects are minimal.

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    I tried this many yrs ago when I had my summer home on lake superior, I trained and when I got home I jumped in the lake for about 20 min where the water temp was 47 IIRC....so I get out afterwords and showered in my outdoor shower and I looked down at the boys and the word was shrinkage... then my then GF comes out and snaps a pic of me at my worst. We've been split up for many yrs now but if she ever posts those online I'll be the laughing stock of the internet not to mention prob never get another date in my life
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Survivor View Post
    I tried this many yrs ago when I had my summer home on lake superior, I trained and when I got home I jumped in the lake for about 20 min where the water temp was 47 IIRC....so I get out afterwords and showered in my outdoor shower and I looked down at the boys and the word was shrinkage... then my then GF comes out and snaps a pic of me at my worst. We've been split up for many yrs now but if she ever posts those online I'll be the laughing stock of the internet not to mention prob never get another date in my life
    lmao, thats just fucked up brutha
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    Quote Originally Posted by Presser View Post
    lmao, thats just fucked up brutha
    Whats a middle aged white boy submerged in 47 degree water to do??
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Survivor View Post
    I tried this many yrs ago when I had my summer home on lake superior, I trained and when I got home I jumped in the lake for about 20 min where the water temp was 47 IIRC....so I get out afterwords and showered in my outdoor shower and I looked down at the boys and the word was shrinkage... then my then GF comes out and snaps a pic of me at my worst. We've been split up for many yrs now but if she ever posts those online I'll be the laughing stock of the internet not to mention prob never get another date in my life
    No wonder you guys are broke up, I am sure she thought it was hilarious....................remember the Seinfeld episode on George and shrinkage?
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    If only our johnsons reponded like women's nipples do to cold. LMAO
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