Ice Baths

Sparta12

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Does anyone do any cold plunges? I used to have a plan near me and I would do it a few times a week and really would notice a difference in mood, overall immune function, less aches and just some skin tightening effects.

Now that place is gone, I want to build my own ice bath, I have a tub already just looking for a chiller. Does anyone know any cheap chillers that work? I dont care how powerful it is, as long as it can chill the water down to around 5-10 degrees celsius
 
Just want to point out that cold water immersion/ice baths have been shown to attenuate hypertrophy and strength gains. So depending on your goals I'd keep that in mind and probably not do them too frequently and definitely not post workout, unless for a specific purpose or aware of the trade offs.
 
Resolve10 said:
Just want to point out that cold water immersion/ice baths have been shown to attenuate hypertrophy and strength gains. So depending on your goals I'd keep that in mind and probably not do them too frequently and definitely not post workout, unless for a specific purpose or aware of the trade offs.
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Yeah I am aware it is not to be done post workout, atleast 6 hours after if muscle gain is the goal. I workout at night, so I would be wanting to do this first thing in the morning to wake me up and get my hormones pumping OR I will be doing it pre workout.
 
I do them a couple times a week...I got a cheap one from Amazon and just add my own ice....

I usually do 3-5 minutes at 38 degrees
 
manifesto said:
I do them a couple times a week...I got a cheap one from Amazon and just add my own ice....

I usually do 3-5 minutes at 38 degrees
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No way Jose. I do sauna but no ice baths for me!
 
Something I learned from ankle rehab that I’ve crossed over to full body recovery is ice AND heat. 1 minute in ice, then another minute in hot epsom salt, repeat 10 times then finish in 15 minutes of hot epsom salt. The vasodilation forces new blood to the areas (full body if doing baths) which we all know now, blood flow brings all the nutrients and what not to the areas and speeds recovery. I felt compelled to share this because I’ve had ankle injuries my whole life, so I have chronic ankle instability. I’m 31 now so when I hurt my ankle I’m out for a few days. When I say this is the fastest I’ve ever recovered from an ankle injury, I mean it. Typically I wouldn’t be able to walk for 2 to 3 days, with the ice and hot water epsom salt method. Literally 24 hours and I’m walking again, I got this method from a book I bought after dozens of other methods. I really hope this finds someone and helps them as much as it did me. If anyone’s interested I can try and get the book name, shouldn’t take too much digging.
 
Jeronimop said:
That book sounds really interesting and useful!
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been trying to get a book name for you but apparently I got a new Amazon account in 18 because it’s not showing me any orders before 2018, bought this book around 15-16 because I remember which job I was at, at the time. No luck because the Ebooks have the literature all locked up, so there’s a couple books I see that may be it, but can’t confirm because they don’t go into detail their methods. I’ll try again later to see if I can find it.
 
3ChainedAminos said:
been trying to get a book name for you but apparently I got a new Amazon account in 18 because it’s not showing me any orders before 2018, bought this book around 15-16 because I remember which job I was at, at the time. No luck because the Ebooks have the literature all locked up, so there’s a couple books I see that may be it, but can’t confirm because they don’t go into detail their methods. I’ll try again later to see if I can find it.
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This MIGHT be it, was able to read some on scribed but after about 8 seconds it blurs the page you are reading. Mix that with my 7th grade retard reading comprehension skills, and I couldn’t read much lol. But from what I saw it’s it. I’ll look around for a free PDF file and see if any posted it.
 

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