I wish I could take cold showers. Here in Florida, the water doesn't get much below 80 degrees unless you add ice.
Taking Cold Showers
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Re: Taking Cold Showers
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you like to share some specific reasons why people shouldn't engage in cold showers? Or are you just going to make a personal attack that doesn't relate to anything I said?
Would you like to share some specific reasons why people shouldn't engage in cold showers? Would you like to share some sort of science proving that taking a cold shower has some health benefit over talking a hot shower?
Science is the attempt to make sense of the world based on observations and thought.
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Re: Taking Cold Showers
#53Taking a cold shower _because_ it's unpleasant makes as much sense as cutting yourself.
Re: Taking Cold Showers
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Of course there's no particular reason to think that the muscle analogy needs to be accurate either way, though.
Well, actually there is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
Hmm, it seems like the research is pretty thin at present. I'm going to file this under "slightly more likely to be true than not" until I see more information.
Re: Taking Cold Showers
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you like to share some specific reasons why people shouldn't engage in cold showers? Would you like to share some sort of science proving that taking a cold shower has some health benefit over talking a hot shower?
Well, not exactly what this is talking about, but after serious exercise, cold showers are better than hot showers for recovery purposes. Same reason applying ice works to reduce inflammation. It's basically a milder form of an ice bath. That said, taking cold showers and bragging about is kinda... dunno. In my mind, cold showers are something to be paired with other physical discomforts (like beating your body up to…
That's interesting. I didn't think about cold showers as a way to reduce inflammation but it's possible that the cold water acts as a mild anti-inflammatory.
I was a gymnast for 16 years but alas my "beat the crap out of myself" days are over for now and I don't need to multiple parts of my body before walking out of the gym. I guess part of the reason why I like cold showers is that I miss the opportunity to struggle with and overcome strong feelings of discomfort.
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#56Good luck getting a clean shave under those conditions. It sometimes amazes me what people think constitutes adversarial conditions, and testing oneself. Reaching down and turning a knob, then telling yourself that you're building character? Odd. By the way, I loved the comments. They read like something I would have written as a twelve year old. "I'm like a Navy SEAL because I beat myself up every day with a cold sh…
> Where there are hot springs, there are happy, relaxed locals.
Some people feel they work better and are more motivated when they're not in a state of happy relaxation. Comfortable and focused perhaps.
> "Reaching down and turning a knob, then telling yourself that you're building character? Odd."
The detail that is important is not the knob, but the endurance of a blast of cold water. (Note: the following is a ridiculous stretch) Saying the issue is 'turning a knob' reminds me of pundits and Senators saying that waterboarding is "pouring water over someone's nose". Standing under coldish water on purpose is a spartan message to your subconscious.
Re: Taking Cold Showers
#57I've tried this twice in my life in the US. Both times I came down with fever. In India, you really want cold showers during the summer.
Indeed, it depends on the weather. When it's warm summer weather here, I take lukewarm showers. When I was in Italy, I took cold showers. What a relief!
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#58Tim Ferris talks about cold showers a lot in his 4 hour body book. Lately i've been 1) avoiding masturbation and 2) taking a hot shower followed immediately by full cold. I feel like I have more energy throughout the day, I'm more aggressive, and more confident. I've also started to eat brazil nuts.
Cold showers (cold in general) stimulate fat loss. I always feel amazing after getting out of the cold too... like the wind was just completely knocked out of me. Almost like a high.
Here are some resource, but again, it's a major theme in the 4-hour body book.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/health-fitness/58335-cold...
http://www.lisajohnsonfitness.com/the-4-hour-body-thoughts-o...
Re: Taking Cold Showers
#59Taking a cold shower _because_ it's unpleasant makes as much sense as cutting yourself.
Except for the physical scarring and potential for infection.
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#60You're doing a reverse of the James Bond shower, which has you start warm and then turn to cold at the end.