ice cold baths and hot baths? what do they do?

[aussie_bodybuilda]

ice cold baths and hot baths?
ive seen brock lesnar use the ice cold bath after training. just wondering what they do and why people do them and when would u do them?

[terraj]

Pushing blood flow to the core, thereby reducing swelling

[iseckz]

thanks! i didn't know that. makes alot of sense.

[aussie_bodybuilda]

Pushing blood flow to the core, thereby reducing swelling

for which 1? ice cold or hot? or both?

[iseckz]

I'm sure cold. since cold does stop swelling? lol

[scotty51312]

cold stops swelling, heat speeds up the break up of inflamation. My understanding anyway. Someone correct me if i'm wrong

[iseckz]

cold stops swelling, heat speeds up the break up of inflamation. My understanding anyway. Someone correct me if i'm wrong

That's what i learned. Make sense tho. After A hard workout, But i mean a hard your're SWOLE status and your shoulders and joints hurt! from how hard your pumped.

A cold shower afterwards does help my shoulder pains. So I can imagine after a MMA/sprawling for hours how your body would feel after a ice cold bath.

[scotty51312]

you suppose to alternate between the two. 5-10 minutes in an icebath then 10-15 minutes in a hot bath. Suppose to be a great recovery tool, I haven't done it since college though.

[VegasRenegade]

you suppose to alternate between the two. 5-10 minutes in an icebath then 10-15 minutes in a hot bath. Suppose to be a great recovery tool, I haven't done it since college though.

This is great if you do not have lots of bruising and low level internal bleeding then Ice alone is correct