Contrast therapy is when you use cold AND heat to (hopefully) bring about the beneficial effects of both. Typically, this would be done using large baths of ice water and warm water — you would then alternate back and forth to (hopefully) induce a systemic reduction of fatigue and increased

Training optimization is something I’m always searching for; often times, aimlessly so. But every once in a while, you stumble onto a novel way of doing something that seems to have outsized benefits. This “AHA” moment came to me not long ago when I, somewhat accidentally, figured out a better