Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

by Christie Aschwanden

where athletes are most likely to benefit from icing or cold water immersion are ones in which they are seeking short-term recovery in between events and are not worried about long-term adaptations.

“the evidence from randomised studies suggests that muscle stretching, whether conducted before, after, or before and after exercise, does not produce clinically important reductions in delayed-onset muscle soreness in healthy adults.”