Exercise Recovery Strategies: How Cold Water Immersion Impacts The Human Body
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How does cold water immersion affect the body's recovery and inflammation levels? Jonathan Peake, a Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, joins us to explain…
Jonathan has a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Queensland, where he has held several academic positions since 2006. Teaching in the areas of physiology and pathophysiology, he is an expert in exercise recovery and other fitness-related subjects.
Jump into the conversation learn about:
- How the local climate influences the temperature of cold water immersion.
- What cold water immersion can accomplish in the human body.
- The three pillars of cold therapy recovery.
- How the parasympathetic nervous system is affected by cold water immersion.
Are you eager to explore the fascinating world of muscle damage and inflammation, cold water immersion strategies, and heating recovery? If so, this podcast is certainly for you!
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Jonathan Peek. Jonathan is a senior lecturer at the |
| 0:45.6 | Queensland University of Technology in Australia. We're going to talk about |
| 0:49.2 | cold water immersion and how it affects recovery and inflammation so that promises to be very |
| 0:55.1 | very interesting so Jonathan thanks for coming thanks for him man yeah well |
| 0:59.3 | tell me a bit about your background and how did you get interested in this area? |
| 1:03.7 | So my background is in exercise physiology. I have a PhD in exercise physiology and I'm a keen athlete |
| 1:09.7 | myself. I've always had very keen interest in exercise in the immune system and exercise of stress more generally and over the past 10 15 years or so my research is focused on post-exercise recovery strategies so what |
| 1:25.0 | can athletes do after exercise to promote recovery and I guess what one of the areas |
| 1:30.4 | we've focused on in particular is effects of cold water immersion on that |
| 1:34.4 | recovery process after exercise and extending it out a little bit how does the |
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