Cold-water immersion blunts and delays increases in circulating testosterone and cytokines post-resistance exercise

Cold-water immersion (CWI) is often used to promote recovery by reducing exercise-induced muscle damage, soreness, and inflammation. However, recent reports have cautioned that CWI may attenuate the adaptive response to resistance training. To determine the effect of post resistance-exercise CWI on circulating free testosterone (T) and cytokine (IL-6 and TNF-α) response. Using a randomized and counterbalanced repeated-measures design, 11...