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The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by vaultconsulting »

js2 wrote: post #8
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #5

> A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man,” says Tipton. “If you keep moving and you are reasonably insulated you will produce enough heat to stay warm. At maximum exercise, it is like you are running a 2kW fire. When you exercise reasonably hard you can do that in shorts and t-shirt in the cold... I think about this a lot as a runner in the Midwest US. I regularly go out in 20-30F weather in wool socks, runn…

Fellow runner here. For God's sake man, carry an emergency blanket with you at least. https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Blanket/s?k=Emergency+Blank...

also a great make-shift Faraday cage for those pesky non-removable-battery phones

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by magic_beans »

> Gasping and panicking, they inhaled water. Friðþórsson, by contrast, managed to control his breathing. He later described remaining clear-headed throughout his swim.

I wish the article had gone into Friðþórsson's breathing a bit more. It seems like this and/or his body fat are what kept him alive.

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by allovernow »

vaultconsulting wrote: post #11
js2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fellow runner here. For God's sake man, carry an emergency blanket with you at least. https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Blanket/s?k=Emergency+Blank...

also a great make-shift Faraday cage for those pesky non-removable-battery phones

I don't know if that's true. In the nonideal world a Faraday cage must have a minimum thickness to function, which is a factor of the wavelengths you are trying to block and the conductivity of the material, I think.

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by starpilot »

eveningcoffee wrote: post #10
stared wrote: post #3

There is a lot of interesting information. However, is it only me, or the style of writing is chaotic (almost as if every paragraph was shuffled)?

This is just the style of modern story writing. Words, a lot of words. Just too many of them. I have tried to read such stories and most of the time there are just words and not much substance.

It's amazing how we used to read entire stacks of bound leaves of paper. Some contained dozens of events and interwoven narratives. I don't have time for that.

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by buserror »

magic_beans wrote: post #13

> Gasping and panicking, they inhaled water. Friðþórsson, by contrast, managed to control his breathing. He later described remaining clear-headed throughout his swim. I wish the article had gone into Friðþórsson's breathing a bit more. It seems like this and/or his body fat are what kept him alive.

You get used to that cold shock, I take a cold shower every day for many many years, and quite frankly I don't feel a "cold shock" anymore, even in winter. It's really just requires a bit of training to get less sensitive to cold; on the other hand I also have a tendency to get warm a lot quicker, which can be a bit annoying sometimes. I keep my house at 18C and no warmer, when many people I know want 21C or sometime more...

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by thanhhaimai »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #5

> A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man,” says Tipton. “If you keep moving and you are reasonably insulated you will produce enough heat to stay warm. At maximum exercise, it is like you are running a 2kW fire. When you exercise reasonably hard you can do that in shorts and t-shirt in the cold... I think about this a lot as a runner in the Midwest US. I regularly go out in 20-30F weather in wool socks, runn…

While I'm happy for your health, I think running shirtless outside at 7 Celsius a bit risky, no? You may be able to sustain it for a while. But if any small accident happens (twisting the ankle for example) it's gonna get cold quickly.

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by allovernow »

JSeymourATL wrote: post #2

Surprisingly, no mention of Wim Hoff - The Ice Man > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XKcsm3dKs

All the videos I've seen about Wim are incredibly frustrating - none of them are remotely technical and none of them go into any kind of depth as to how to actually practice the method - just a bunch of montages of Wim doing Wim stuff and talking about his magic breathing.

Granted, I haven't searched in a few years now, perhaps things have changed....

I want to believe but I don't have enough information to try anything and I don't want to pay for his retreat to find out.

Re: The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold

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Post by netcan »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #5

> A man in the cold is not necessarily a cold man,” says Tipton. “If you keep moving and you are reasonably insulated you will produce enough heat to stay warm. At maximum exercise, it is like you are running a 2kW fire. When you exercise reasonably hard you can do that in shorts and t-shirt in the cold... I think about this a lot as a runner in the Midwest US. I regularly go out in 20-30F weather in wool socks, runn…

Would I be able to, say, sit down to do sit-ups and push-ups until I could warm up and resume hobbling.

It'd be tough. The muscles in your arms are much smaller than your legs. They produce less heat and induce less cardiovascular activity when working.

Try getting your heart rate up without using your legs. It's hard.

Hope you're not doing this someplace isolated.

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