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# Alpha memo: cold water immersion training modality boundary
**One-sentence alpha:** Daily cold-water immersion for recovery may carry a training-load cost during a 5-day heat block, while chronic CWI paired with sprint-interval cycling does not appear to blunt Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase and phospholemman abundance adaptations, suggesting the recovery downside may be bounded by session context rather than uni…