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I am excited to jump in on cold immersion and cold plunging.

I got a whole bunch of questions.

I want to know about frequency, load, duration.

We're going to talk a little bit about erections and really just hit you with a bunch of questions that I shot over earlier.

The big one that we get quite often is cold plunging going to hurt my gains.

If I'm in the gym and I'm banging weights and I'm trying to put on as much muscle as

possible, how is cold plunge going to affect that? More importantly, is it going to negate those

gains? And then how can I effectively use cold plunging to continue to drive my performance and get

as jacked as possible? Yeah, this is a popular question. It's not exactly the right question.

You can use cold plunge to blunt hypertrophy,

if that's what you want to do. If you've just done a big workout and you're worried about doms, the delayed onset muscle, soreness, you can get right into the cold plunge. You can slow down

that inflammation response and you can bring yourself back to performance ready faster.

But only do that when you're in some sort of a multi-day tournament and when you know you have to perform again.

So the tennis players, this is good.

If you're in the U.S. Open and you just played five

sets in the heat, get into that ice bath because you're not there to build muscles. You want to

get yourself back ready for your next set the next day. Golfing, same thing. If you're in one of

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