Ice bath vs. whole body cryotherapy
Colder, drier, faster — and no recovery time.
A cold plunge cools you slowly, wet, for twenty minutes, and then you need to recover from it. Cryotherapy flash-freezes the skin at −240°F in three minutes, dry, and you walk out ready to train.
Photo · Split image — plunge tub vs. chamber fog
Side by side
Same idea. Different physiology.
Ice bath
- Temperature
- 32–45°F water
- Duration
- 15–20 minutes
- Feel
- Wet cold — hard to tolerate
- Tissue
- Blood cools at the periphery; muscle congeals; frostbite and hypothermia risk
- Recovery
- Needed — muscles take time to return to normal
- Timing
- End of workout only
Whole body cryotherapy
- Temperature
- −200°F to −256°F air
- Duration
- 1.5–3 minutes
- Feel
- Dry cold — technically far colder, significantly more tolerable
- Tissue
- Skin temperature drops faster; muscle does not freeze
- Recovery
- None
- Timing
- Before, after, or during sport
A ten-year client
Some investments in health are irreplaceable
“I bought a cold plunge for my home and suspended my membership. After one month I was dissatisfied — it was noisy, left my house damp, made me hungry and fatigued, and the pain relief I relied on from Cryotherapy was notably absent. There’s simply no comparison.”
Diane S.
Client of 10+ years
Memberships
Six, twelve or eighteen sessions a month. From $299.
Marina del Rey members mix whole body cryotherapy, local cryo and Cryofacials® however they like, add LED, BEMER or compression to every visit, and take up to 20% off programs, NAD+, T-Shape and T-Shock.