ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018
The Influence of Post-Exercise Cold-Water Immersion on Adaptive Responses to Exercise: A Review of the Literature.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Post-exercise Recovery Methods Focus on Young Soccer Players: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
- The Effects of Regular Cold-Water Immersion Use on Training-Induced Changes in Strength and Endurance Performance: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of post-exercise cold-water immersion on performance and perceptive outcomes of competitive adolescent swimmers.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
- Experience of cold-water immersion on recovery efficiency after soccer match.La Tunisie medicale · 2021Trial
- Prolonged cooling with phase change material enhances recovery and does not affect the subsequent repeated bout effect following exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Trial
- Effects of thermal interventions on skeletal muscle adaptations and regeneration: perspectives on epigenetics: a narrative review.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- The field study about the effects of artificial COJournal of exercise science and fitness · 2023Article
- Cold water immersion after a soccer match: Does the placebo effect occur?Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Evidence-Based Recovery in Soccer - Low-Effort Approaches for Practitioners.Journal of human kinetics · 2022Article
- Under Pressure: The Chronic Effects of Lower-Body Compression Garment Use during a 6-Week Military Training Course.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Functional Impact of Post-exercise Cooling and Heating on Recovery and Training Adaptations: Application to Resistance, Endurance, and Sprint Exercise.Sports medicine - open · 2022Review
- A combination of cherry juice and cold water immersion does not enhance marathon recovery compared to either treatment in isolation: A randomized placebo-controlled trial.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Post-Exercise Cold- and Contrasting-Water Immersion Effects on Heart Rate Variability Recovery in International Handball Female Players.Journal of human kinetics · 2022Article
- The cold truth: the role of cryotherapy in the treatment of injury and recovery from exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Review
- Post-exercise Cold Water Immersion Effects on Physiological Adaptations to Resistance Training and the Underlying Mechanisms in Skeletal Muscle: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Review
- Post-exercise Warm or Cold Water Immersion to Augment the Cardiometabolic Benefits of Exercise Training: A Proof of Concept Trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Adaptations to Post-exercise Cold Water Immersion: Friend, Foe, or Futile?Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Review
- Short-Term Resistance Training Supported by Whole-Body Cryostimulation Induced a Decrease in Myostatin Concentration and an Increase in Isokinetic Muscle Strength.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Postexercise cooling impairs muscle protein synthesis rates in recreational athletes.The Journal of physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Post-exercise cold-water immersion (CWI) is used extensively in exercise training as a means to minimise fatigue and expedite recovery between sessions. However, debate exists around its merit in long-term training regimens. While an improvement in recovery following a single session of exercise may improve subsequent training quality and stimulus, reports have emerged suggesting CWI may attenuate long-term adaptations to exercise training. Recent developments in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing the adaptive response to exercise in human skeletal muscle have provided potential mechanistic insight into the effects of CWI on training adaptations. Preliminary evidence suggests that CWI may blunt resistance signalling pathways following a single exercise session, as well as attenuate key long-term resistance training adaptations such as strength and muscle mass. Conversely, CWI may augment endurance signalling pathways and the expression of genes key to mitochondrial biogenesis following a single endurance exercise session, but have little to no effect on the content of proteins key to mitochondrial biogenesis following long-term endurance training. This review explores current evidence regarding the underlying molecular mechanisms by which CWI may alter cellular signalling and the long-term adaptive response to exercise in human skeletal muscle.
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