Background: COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem of physical
inactivity and weight gain. Consequently, new strategies to counteract weight
gain are being sought. Because of their accessibility, interval training and cold
therapy are the most popular such strategies. We here aimed to examine the effect
of 6 units of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), applied alone or in
combination with 10 sessions of whole-body cryotherapy (WBC; 3 min at –110
