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A morning routine is everything. What is yours?

30 May 2025 · 1 min

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Andy Neary walks through his morning routine: breath work, then a three to four minute cold plunge before exercise. He avoids cold exposure after workouts because it can blunt muscle growth by interfering with the processes that drive hypertrophy.

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Three to four minutes.

In the garage.

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I'll go into my breath work, then I jump into my cold plunge. We got a cold plunge in the garage. You could do that with a cold shower as well. And I'll sit in there for three or four minutes, really wakes up. I do that, by the way, before I exercise for my athletes in the on the podcast who who do cold plunge and exercise science. Again, I'm not a scientist by any means or researcher, but I've heard enough people tell list enough people say that you should be cold plunging before you exercise, not after. Because if you are especially lifting to create muscle growth, well, think about this. You've torn down your fibers lifting, and then if you jump into a cold plunge, at that time, you're kind of contracting muscle growth as well. So I cold plunge before I go to the.