Cold immersion right after lifting might block muscle growth by suppressing the inflammation your body needs to build bigger muscles. Wait until the next day if hypertrophy is your goal. Cryotherapy still helps with sleep and brain fog on other days.
There's enough research to say that if you do do cryotherapy then it is really reducing inflammation in the body. And once you're reducing inflammation in the body, then you're going to get so many more benefits. You're going to be sleeping better, you're going to get rid of brain fog, you're going to, you know, if you're suffering with autoimmune disease, which we have a lot of clients that come into London cryo who suffer from autoimmune diseases.
You mentioned that you do your morning workout, you hit the infrared and then you hit the cryo. What do you think about the idea that if you get cold after workout it could excessively blunt the inflammatory response, the natural inflammatory response?
The only time you shouldn't do cryotherapy after training is if you're trying to build muscle because you need to have a little bit of muscle tear, build up the inflammation so that, that then we would say don't do a cryotherapy session after that. Come the next day.
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