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# Alpha memo: Cold Water Immersion Resistance Training Adaptation: Bounded Alpha Signal

Hypothesis-level alpha signal; not clinical advice.
## Core signal
The locked evidence is not a flat contradiction — it is a *metric-split*. Acute/submaximal muscle function can move one way under cold water immersion, while chronic resistance-training adaptation can move the other. The unit of analysis that f…