Hi and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is Coach Kevin Don. And this week I'm going to respond to a few more listener questions. The first one is actually from a friend of mine who also turns out to be a listener.

Rachel writes, Hi Kevin. I have a question for your Get Fit Guy podcast. I be a listener. Rachel writes, Hi, Kevin.

I have a question for your Get Fit Guy podcast.

I'm a keen listener, by the way.

I do my workouts at 6 a.m.

and have been considering getting an ice bath for the garden.

I've heard lots of good things about how helpful it can be with recovery and reducing inflammation,

etc. I was planning to use it straight after I get home from a workout, but I've just seen

advice that some acute inflammation is good after a workout as it helps the muscles to grow and adapt.

So it's best to use it away from the time you would work out. So a morning exerciser would use it in the evening, if at all.

What are your thoughts?

So hi, Rachel.

Great to hear from you.

I remember when we met, it was at a little gym in the west end of Glasgow in Scotland,

called ClanFit, back in 2015.

I'm always amazed that no replacement functional fitness gym has opened in the West End,

you know, with the university there and the overall kind of like high value demographic.

It seems to me to be the perfect spot.

So anyway, getting on to me to be the perfect spot. So anyway,

getting onto your question, inflammation is actually one of those fitness trend buzzwords that really trigger me. So, you know, all these people that jump onto the holistic kind of wellness

bandwagon seem to have an obsession with inflammation. Seems to me a significant number

of coaches in the health and fitness industry are hypochondriacs. There's foods you have to avoid

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