Recently I just got back into testing out cold showers
because of the pop up articles about them lately. Right now it’s to mostly help
my recovery from intense workouts and build up my immune system for the winter
months here in Idaho .
It gets down to as low as 8 degrees at night and the highest this week has been
no more than 25-30 so safe to say it gets fucking cold.
As I
experiment with this and so far I love it, it’s one of the best methods to
increase your health and vitality. The shock of the water hitting your body can
be a bit dramatic for some people but what that’s doing is amping up the heat
in your body and move it towards the organs and keep them strong and healthy.
When you have strong powerful organs especially the heart and kidneys, you are
charging up your body like never before. Think about it, this intense form of
therapy can actually make you stronger and more mentally tough.
One of the
very best benefits of cold water therapy (especially for us guys) is the increase
of our metabolism and testosterone increase. When you are in a cold shower and
it’s hitting you all over the place you have no choice but to breathe hard.
Breathing deeply and hard like you are training increases the chance of burning
off fat and as you as your body tries to stay warm it’s burning off more
calories which can lead to weight loss, bodyfat decrease and at best bring your
testosterone up a notch which helps increase lean muscle and take away the fat
we don’t want. Screw steroids and PEDs take a cold shower damn it and be a man.
That old
saying from Farmer Burns “Deep breathing alone can make many a weak man strong
and many a sick man well.” He made that comment more than 100 years ago and
it’s as true today as it was back in his time. When you breathe deeply, you
open the lungs and you increase your capacity to sustain great energy and
stamina. When you hop in that cold shower and you’re forced to breathe deeply,
it becomes apparent that your body is not only getting stronger it’s getting
stronger from within which is more important than always focusing on the
outside. Deep Breathing allows you to keep going in your activity or whatever
you’re doing throughout the day. It builds that inner power within you to live
life with peacefulness and bliss.
Cold
showers isn't a new thing, it’s been around since the dawn of man, jumping into
cold lakes, rivers and bathing in the treacherous winters has been the stuff of
legends. In Japan , masters
and students would stand under a waterfall that is ice cold to help cleanse
their spirit, in Finland
they would sit in the sauna for a time then immediately go out and roll in the
snow and jump in the freezing lake. Athletes have used ice baths to help their
recovery from workouts and decrease the chance of soreness.
It’s
important to keep natural remedies as possible in this pharmaceutical and
technological world of ours because when it comes to the human body, it’s one
of the most fascinating elements in our universe and however it was created, we
must protect it from harmful affects which are practically everywhere so do the
best to your abilities. Be open to becoming a little more natural, you’d be
surprised what can happen when you put it into a positive realm.
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