That sounds like quite a lot of massage and adjustments.
Any particular reason or are you just training that hard?
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I do train very hard, I’m also very high strung and can’t deal with anything feeling tight or off.
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I do a lot of resistance band stuff on off days to try to recover which seems to work for a while. A big one for me is decompression on my spine so I sometimes just hang from the chin-up bars. I also do a thing with a big resistance band looped around the base of a squat rack and put it on one leg to traction out my back.
About once or twice a month I do an epsom salt soak. I wait until I’m good and beat up. Beyond that, voodoo floss for particularly problematic areas (especially biceps and calf).
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I’m very jealous of you right at this moment…
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Lol !!! I have good benefits because I work for a benefits company.
I make far better use of them than most 
Benefitception.
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I’m wondering what the size of the effect of relaxation/meditation/mindfulness stuff would be?
The other way around high stress even if it’s non physical adds up and takes away from your lifting so chilling out would be beneficial
I would say being in the right frame of mind is extremely important. The tools that get you there not so much - use what works for you.
On the cold showers thing, I read recently that cold showers inhibit muscle growth.
From what I’ve read, cold immersion reduces inflammation and inflammation is key to muscle growth, so doing cold immersion immediately after a workout could be problematic. However, I don’t think cold showers are either cold or long enough to actually count as “cold immersion”.
Also, given that cold immersion does help with reducing inflammation, it could be a good recovery technique. Also, cold showers could possibly help trigger a parasympathetic response, which is good for downregulating after tough workouts
Quite right anna, its immersion rather than a cold shower.
No idea for performance but I’m aware of research that backs meditation and mindfulness for positive affects on your telemeres which are responsible for aging. Also, epigenetics is just starting to give an insight into how stress affects us at a genetic level.
I’m neither a geneticist or a trauma therapist so I don’t have the reports to hand.
90 minute deep tissue each week, chiropractor each week, gua Sha every other day, lacrosse balls every other day, trying to sleep as much as I can, voodoo flossing as needed, deloading every 4th week, etc.
That is some serious dedication. My mom used to make me go to gua sha once a week and I couldn’t stand it.
I wonder if it would be more beneficial to go ham on all these other modalities or perfect diet and sleep a couple more hours?
I love it. Especially my forearms, triceps, inner thighs, calves, and ankles.
It does scream a bit too much and everything but the kitchen sink, but some people are just that fucked up 
Want to know how many strains or pulls I’ve had since I started doing that amount of recovery about a year ago? Zero. Know how often I feel tight or uncomfortable even working 16 hour days at a desk? Almost never. Results matter.
Please do not take this questions the wrong way, as I’m genuinely curious: What are your current strength levels (squat, bench, dead, ohp) and/or what type of training have you been doing for the past year?
Is this since January 2018 when you were injured during deadlifts?
There is nothing wrong with lots of recovery methods, especially if you feel like it’s the reason you’ve never been injured.
The only issue I see is what if you DO get injured or need extra recovery? It’s like weight loss, if you immediately drop calories to 1500 and cardio to an hour a day where do you go when weightloss stalls?
Where do you go when recovery stalls?