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# Alpha memo: Cold Water Immersion and Training Outcomes in Human Studies

Hypothesis-level alpha signal; not clinical advice.
## Core signal
Direct human trials diverge on whether repeated post-exercise cold-water immersion blunts chronic training adaptation or simply fails to add to a placebo. The strongest direct human evidence (Receipt 10.1123/ijspp.2019-0965) shows cold-water immersion after …