• JCreazy@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Has anyone here ever taken a cold shower on purpose? It’s quite invigorating once one acclimate.

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      8 months ago

      I go hot for the muscles, pores, and lungs. At the end I wind it down to freezing or as close as I can get, a bit at a time. Typically ends in some kind of barbarian spiritual catharsis involving grunting. Then I picture polar bear club and want to die.

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        8 months ago

        I like to do the same and put myself face first into the cold ass water and act like I’m some wild man standing under a freezing waterfall and gasping for breath.

        Try it sometime.

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      8 months ago

      I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.

      This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I have easier ways to provoke a fight or flight response from my brain, such as receiving a phone call from an unknown number, or having to schedule an appointment in advance

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          8 months ago

          Surprise: it’s an unknown charge on your credit card. You’ll have to call support and get a new card issued! Oooooo

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            8 months ago

            Jokes on you, I can disable the old card and order the new one though the mobile app now! Which happened at least once already. Welcome to the future, where we automate away the human contact and I’m all for it

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          8 months ago

          Cool thing is you can train your flight or fight response with things like cold plunges to be more useful. Cold showers might be a way to reduce your unneeded response to harmless things like phone calls.

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      8 months ago

      Only time I intentionally took a cold shower was after a long bike ride, wearing formal clothing, in the middle of summer. It was freeing and very cold.

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      8 months ago

      The trick is to start at the end of your limbs and move slowly inward until you think you had enough, and definitely not so fast you start to pant: The calmer you are, giving time for the body to switch to the change, the more you’ll be able to take, so take it slow. Also don’t feel obliged to use only the cold tap, especially in winter that can be rather extreme. Just up to elbows and knees more often than not get you that nice metabolism boost and that’s a perfect pre-coffee, OTOH some days are torso days and even others are head days.