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# Alpha memo: Cold Water Immersion: Muscle Thickness vs Strength Training Adaptation

Hypothesis-level alpha signal; not clinical advice.
## Core signal
Receipt 10.1123/ijspp.2019-0965 (randomized trial, humans) is the strongest direct anchor: a condition × time effect (P = .01, F = 10.00) with a large negative effect on muscle thickness (g = 1.20), while 1RM (g = 0.71) and countermovement jump (g…