Recently there was an article doing the rounds suggesting Ice baths are a waste of time, but when we dug a little deeper there was a little more to this story than first meets the ice... The RadioNZ article:  http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201835699/ice-baths-a-'bone-chilling-waste-of-time' The actual academic paper: http://pilarmartinescudero.es/Ene2017/Effects%20of%20cold%20water%20after%20resitance%20exercise.pdf New Yorker Article on thinking:  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds Veritasium video on the scientific method:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q Our first Random thoughts on the topic of Cryotherapy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_p04jvQ0Y PS: Ice baths for general recovery is a completely different topic to ice (RICE) for acute injury rehabilitation, we talk on that topic in the cryotherapy episode. You can also on RICE here: http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/why-ice-delays-recovery.html PPS: This is Episode 52, which makes it one full year of Random Thoughts, thank you so much for watching, giving feedback and your continued involvement in some brilliant open discussion!

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