Post workout Cold or Heat

I’ve always heard about the value of post workout heat, but I’m curious to see if anyone is using cold after instead. Want to know if I should switch over.

Haven’t tried, but would be willing to try. I just start off with hot and then let it cool down to body temp.

Heat causes expansion, cold causes contraction of tissues and constricted and reduced blood flow. Typically you want to cool down/recover in a stretched state to promote growth. Adding cold for a quicker cooling off goes against that concept.

I’d listen to what 32quarters just said!

Years ago, I really got into Bathmate pumping, and kept a daily log of my sessions and gains. I actually got good results dumping the hot water out of the pump after twenty minutes, then refilling it with ice water, and plunging my dick back into it for an additional five minutes. I figured I’d try it once, be none too surprised by the instant and drastic shrinkage, and never do it again. For reasons I don’t know or understand, the post cold water floppy remained big and fat and floppy for an hour afterwards, and I know it was that cold water soak that made that difference. I wish I could tell you the how or why of the anatomical processes that contributed to that, but I can’t. Probably one of those things that you have to try for yourself. Someone told me recently that going from a manual or clamping workout directly to hot water, like an immediate shower, triggers the inflammation process and starts you towards healing. I have no idea, But I can vouch for my own girth gains going from hot water to cold when pumping. Other means of enlargement, I have no idea. Sometimes, you gotta experiment, none of this is one size fits all.

I used to soak a thick washcloth in water and then lay it in the freezer to get it ice ice (baby!) cold. I only did this for after long pumps, like 50+ minutes of tube time. I found the super cold wrap at the end kept my edema down and in check, but I didn’t get a good post-pump swelling like normal. It did help red spots go away almost instantly, and I felt like I was “healed up” and my penis was ready to go for a pump again in 24 hours whereas after a good long pump I’d wait 2 days to pump again.

I also found that hot wraps and water after a pump made edema come on where I didn’t have any prior to a post-pump hot wrap. Now I just jelq a lot, maybe 300 or so reps, and get a hard on and masturbate it for about 5 minutes or so, really put a lot of oomph into it and jerk it pretty hard, and I stay much fuller and my post-pump state is ideal. I would like to try post-pump heat or cold wraps again, I just can’t decide what to do because of my past experiences. I’m glad this thread is here!