Have you ever tried 21 day scottish shower challenge?

[Anonymous]

The goal is to break your routine and get you out of your comfort zone, making you feel better and more active.

For 21 days, you take normal shower and on the end of shower you turn the water all the way to cold part and hold it that way for some time. You start by holding it shorter and then you make it longer each day.

[ThatBritishLad]

There's many reasons why the Scottish are a grumpy bunch, that probably doesn't help.

[Anonymous]

huh? i've been doing that my whole life without knowing it was a thing.

[AhGojira]

Nope. I did take only cold showers for about 6 months before...

[AnnaTheAnnaa]

That sound awful. Why would anyone put themselves through this?

[Asker]

When you get too comfortable in your life, you tend to become "slow" and inactive. Often not seeing chances and not grabing them.

The idea of taking these showers is to get you a bit out of your routine and pull you out of comfort zone. Get you overall more excited about life.

[AnnaTheAnnaa]

But what is the benefit of getting out of your comfort zone? You're comfortable there..:)

[Asker]

chalkandsteel.com/.../magic-happens.jpg

Studies on mice show that they performed best when they were not exactly comfortable.

[AnnaTheAnnaa]

Neat

[houstongirl26]

I've never heard of that

[JCT666]

I'm Scottish and I've never even heard of this...

[Asker]

Well the name I believe comes out of stigma that scots are cheap so they would want to save by using cold water.

Some people do this by taking normal shower but only with cold water, some alternate between hot and cold watee during showers and some do the way I described.

Some spa centers offer these kind of showers as therapeutical thing.