What is your opinion on practicing cold plunges as part of your daily routine?

[thegreenyogi]

In case anyone reading this question doesn't know what cold plunges are it's basically the act of sitting in freezing ice cold water for 3-5 minutes at least everyday if possible. It has numerous health benefits and many people like to do this.

[pickles77]

Really good for your immune system, skin and muscle recovery my friend started doing it and he actually started losing weight without changing his diet or anything. Interesting research

[Flatmanlewis]

I do that regularly. Go from my hot tub to my pool and back. Especially hot-cold-hot cycle showers. It’s invigorating and has several health benefits.

[Drewtate]

Where to start. These women be looking at Instagram and fbook at other women's lifestyles and when they look at theirs blame their husbands as failures, doesn't matter how much their husbands make. So if they divorce they get half of everything often more along with alimony sometimes for life, half his 401k and childsupport. Getting rid of her husband allows her to spend both her earnings and his however she wants running up debts usually on herself. Limiting the husband's child custody or keeping him away all together for maximum child support and so the kids hate their father not her, she can feed her kids with lies about their father. Other women also give bad advice to other women on their relationships especially if they got a good man and they don't.

They imagine a better life but most of these women end up regretting it. For instance this new guy the woman you mention is dating well he's a bit of a scumbag. He was willing to share her sexually with another man so he don't give a fuck, he has no intrest in being a step dad, he's happy to live somewhere rent free with plenty of sex with a woman desperate to please, he might also be a danger to her kids. He knows she ain't loyal so long term as soon as something better comes a long or she runs out of her husband's money or needs finacial help he's gone

[Guardian45]

I do NOT practice taking cold plunges as part of my daily routine. However, during hot summer days, I do take cold showers as a means of cooling down. When I was a uni skiier, I would sometimes snowbath in sub-zero weather, almost nekkid, in the snowbanks. It's an excellent way to get the circulation going. Similar to polar dips or icebaths! How about you?

[thegreenyogi]

It's not something I personally do but I'd like to be able to try it one day in the future.

[Andres77]

According to Jeff Foxworthy
Naked is when you don’t have no clothes on. Nekkid is when you don’t have no clothes on and you’re up to something.

[Guardian45]

@Andres77. How did you know? 😂🤣🤪

[electromagnetic]

One of my colleagues is this old Russian dude, I think he’s on his 70s. But he SWEARS about the cold plunges he does. I think every other week then he follow it up with a warm massage. He says it’s why he still stands upright. He’s like 6 feet, good skin and salt hair maybe those are some of the benefits

Considering I have body regulation issues, unless I want my heart to stop instantly, I will not partake in the antic.

[Unit1]

There are probably benefits of wetting your body in cold temperatures for a very short time just as there are benefits of wetting your body in hot temperatures too.

I like doing that in hot (e. g. tropical) environments, not in freezing or cold environments. And certainly not because of the ice bucket fad.

[smne35]

Well I must ask you, what is the benefit of turning yourself into a ice cube, I don't get why people do so I see no reason for it other than you wanting to wake up fully or remind yourself hey I'm still alive,

[Nifrayu]

For the health benefits, silly.

[provokeesmokee]

If I had a cold bath set up, I'd do it. Even better if I have cold-hot alternating bath. I did that for a while for physio and loved how it made me feel.

[Andres77]

Logistically, not practical for me. So I do cold showers for all the same reasons.

[Andres77]

I started going to a nearby lake during the winter. I would only spend two minutes in the water but I was alone. There was no cell phone coverage. If anything happened to me I’d have no help. Plus I could only do that maybe once a week so I decided to take cold showers instead.

[thegreenyogi]

Interesting. Did you know there are proper plunging baths for home use you can use for this purpose?

[Andres77]

I don’t have a place for it, for the mess, I don’t have the capacity to produce that much ice. Cold showers are a good compromise

[thegreenyogi]

Understood!!👍

[LazerBean]

I believe it's good for you. But it's still not something I'm going to do. My brother does it pretty often, though.

[Nirmroth]

I mean you're free to choose your own daily torture method.

[exitseven]

Nah, I have done a polar plunge a couple of times and it is nice if I did not have to go to work and could just veg out on the couch.

[Itreallydoesntmatter]

That's how people in Hong Kong shock their system awake... an ice cold shower. Better than any Java. Now U. S. sports teams use it, but they adopted the practice from the Far East.

[Wise4myage]

I hear its quite refreshing, lol. And Id try it once.

[Rangers]

I feel jealous that they have so much time and money to be able to do that, they must be one of the very few people who were dealt a good hand in life

[OlderAndWiser]

Are the health benefits established by long-term controlled studies, or is it a matter of opinion and conjecture?

[Nifrayu]

There are studies on this. I haven't read into it in depth it all seemed sound to me.

[OlderAndWiser]

It doesn’t seem reasonable to me, so I would want to know that this is supported by research and not just the opinions and conjectures of over zealous advocates.

[Nifrayu]

So read the studies then. Lol

[jahaims]

It's good for your health. Same with using a sauna daily.

[scooogy]

I would prefer plain cold water, since new ice would cost too much money after a while.

[Anonymous]

Because we were waiting for marriage I took a lot of cold baths and showers.

[Nifrayu]

I take straight cold showers most days.

[Luckycharms12]

I like cold shower every now and then

[Kelly6]

It’s very healthy