“…Practitioners employ a variety of strategies to attenuate the fatigue and discomfort of resistance training (RT) or physical competition, or in an attempt to improve performance‐defined measures of recovery. Of these strategies, extreme temperature exposure in various forms (e.g., sauna, cold and hot water immersion, cryotherapy, and phase‐change material) have been found to reduce the severity of muscle soreness (Crystal et al., 2013), perceived fatigue (Wang et al., 2021; Xiao et al., 2023), and time to recovery (Roberts et al., 2014). Notably, despite the target of cold therapy often‐cited as being a reduction of acute postexercise inflammation (McPhee & Lightfoot, 2017; Thorpe, 2021), there is some evidence that cold therapy may not actually reduce biological markers of inflammation to a greater extent than low‐intensity cycling (Peake et al., 2017) nor improve recovery from eccentric exercise‐induced muscle damage (Tseng et al., 2013).…”