30/06/2026
Cryotherapy doesn't just make you cold. Here's what's actually going on.
The cold is the trigger, not the treatment.
At around −87°C, your blood vessels constrict and blood moves toward the core. Your body is doing exactly what it's designed to do — protecting your temperature.
Step out, and those vessels open back up. Blood rushes back out to your limbs, carrying fresh oxygen into tissue that's just been cleared of the waste products sitting there from training.
At the same time, the chemical signals driving post-training inflammation and that deep muscle soreness you feel 24 hours later are significantly reduced.
This is why timing matters. The window of 12–24 hours after a hard session is when inflammation is most active — and when this has the most impact.
Cryotherapy is one of three elements in Discover Recovery, our introduction session. The other two follow later this week.