Can we get a COLD SHOWER thread going?

>>39833987
and you don't have to use it on your head (is optional), after making sure you have a colder body, get out, clean your body of the left water and go straight to bed and good night, you can thank me tomorrow.

I usually do these after workouts (that happen to be very late) So ice-shower before bedtime is godtier. I do it differently tho, i begin with cold and stay minute or two then i switch to very hot and back to cold. I always end with hot water and that shit leaves me so relaxed i fall sleep no problem.

>>39833987
I do cold showers after the gym. Is this an OK replacement for ice baths?

Your life will still be shit regardless of the temperature of the water. Do you think all nobel prize winners in physics or billionaires attained their success due to this? No. Now quit shitting up /fit/ with these memes

>>39834066
>stop doing what i dont like
Cry more faggot

>>39834066
He's blowing it out of proportion for his audience. Nobody says they're going to make you a super saiyan, but they have legitimate benefits. Go be a grumpy ass hole somewhere else.

I usually just do a long blast of cold water at the end of my shower, much more enjoyable t b h

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>>39833987
Our hot water heater wnt out at my old house. We had a well. That water was comming from 100 or 200 feet in the ground. Now those were some COLD ASS SHOWERS FAMPAI

>>39834066

>dont try to be better goy!!

A question:
Is it supposed to be ICE COLD water?

I don't know if it's placebo or not, but the day after I take a cold shower I get out of bed right away and feel great all day. I just feel so much more mentally powerful

>tfw want to take cold shower but I don't want to catch a cold because I have an important event on new years eve

>>39834343
being cold isn't how you catch a cold you turbo sperg

>>39834343

being cold doesnt give you a cold

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Where the fuck do you retards get these retarded-ass memes? Reddit? Men's Health? The Art of Manliness?

Holy fuck, go do stomach vacuums and jelqing somewhere else.

>>39834356
>>39834357
b-but anime!

>>39834373

Tell us how its wrong.

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>>39834343
You breathed deeply when you took one didn't you? Usually happens when the shock response hits you.

Protip: it's the breathing that does it. If you can't take a cold shower for whatever reason, just do his breathing techniques. Look up Wim Hof, he has it perfected.

>>39834244
Well, depending, normally no, but there seems to be a vast amount of people which misunderstand not ice cold water for almost warm or neutral water.

Let's break it down so people will have a clearer vision of this, let's says water is from a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the hottest, 10 the coldest and 5 the neutral water. The water starts to feel cold at about 6 and you'll need to have it at least 7 in order to be cold. Of course, you can go to the extremes, I like doing that at the end of the shower especially, even if it's a one minutes shower, I would switch to 10 (when I'm taking the pre-sleep shower).

Also something I forgot to mention, if you have problems shivering, try to inhale as deeply and large you can, I do that in order to keep my body under control and it works great, it oxigenates the brain and put the blood into motion.

>>39834356
>>39834357
wait what? I'm 100% serious right now

I do it too but i submerge in a bath up to the neck, with water as cold as it goes, and I agree especially about the reset feeling, softer skin, and irritability/tension going away

>>39834382
Yes, breathing has a huge impact and part of the benefits are because of breating deeply, but cold water itself is an important stimulant and part of the benefits can be obtained just by breathing deeply.

>>39834404
How long do you stay in the shower to get the benefits? Also, are you actually using soap and washing yourself or just exposing yourself to the water?

>>39834412

The common cold is a virus, you catch it from other people and it constantly mutates so you can catch it multiple times, it's not something caused by being cold.

>>39834382

Started doing Wim Hof breathing the other day, it's a bit mindblowing how big the effect is.

>>39834421
You'll manage how much you react to harsh conditions with the breathing yeah. The cold water, to my knowledge, is good for health and skin.

Wim is on a whole other dimension with what he does though. Get a load of this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQwFZ_xFdM

It's fucking unreal and I can only hope to get to that level one day.

>>39834440
Not this anon, but from my understanding cold weather makes it easier for the cold virus to travel through the air. If you aren't used to cold weather this also puts stress on the immune system. Combine an easier to spread virus and a weaker immune system and your chances of getting sick increases. If your body is used to the cold, that may be why this works. Also, colds are spread in environments with cold weather because people spend more time indoors where viruses tend to be most prevalent.

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>>39833987
As an aside, if you fall out of routine with cold showers, you'll be back to square one.

There was a period of time where I could handle them just fine, like an ordinary hot shower. Well, fell out of practice and, guess what? Back to bitch mode, wimped out. You can build it back up though, so don't fret if you fell out of the routine.

>>39834496
After a time I got too used to them and couldn't feel that fantastic sensation after leaving the cold shower, and I simply switched to scotian showers (cold-warm), kind of a bitchmode for cold showers, but works just fine, right now I'm still used and I can also feel that sensation.

>>39834454
>"I don't feel the pain, I feel the power"
>"I am stronger than the pain in that moment"

Can we get a seperate thread up for this Wim Hof nonsense?? This has to be one of the most badass things I've seen on /fit/

>>39834437
Again that's depending on the kind of shower you take, at the end of my first post, with that presleep shower I was referring to only exposing to cold water, not literally washing you body with soap/gel douche anything like that, just water.

But to answer your question, you need to expose your body to cold water for about at least 40 seconds in order to get the full benefits, this has some scientifical back up so it's not just a magical made up number.

But you can stay longer, yes you can was your body, but I believe that these are things for advanced people, I can do them just fine, but for someone who does it the first time it would be nearly impossible.

Also, you can take hot-cold-hot-cold showers, but always ending in cold water.

>>39834528
I do this in the morning because I'm too pissy to take a cold shower, so I do hot and finish cold.

At night/evening time I'm all in for cold showers.

>>39834583
That's exactly how I feel, also do them in the morning when it's winter (I have a window at my bathroom so it's gets pretty cold over the night), after getting out of my warm bed it's a challenge to only stay in my bathroom naked because it's very cold/.

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>>39833987
I take them and also sit around naked all day with no heat on here in New Hampshire.

I swim in the atlantic between lat April and November

I can stay in for an hour at 50 f

I have been doing this for about four years now..

Have done a few ice baths too... ten pounds of ice in a cold tub of water .. get in for ten minutes at a time

I am still fat though.. even though I eat a mostly fat and protein but at 53 years maybe my metabolism is shot for good.

maybe all I get from this is an immune system boost which is ok.

pic is my leg after swimming in late mid April this year at 42 f

>>39835058
eat less fat fuck

>>39833987
>detox
bs detector triggered

>>39833987
Just took one and wimped out, turned the water to hot.

But then to cold, then to hot, then finished cold.

>>39833987
why do you fuckheads always insist on posting this stupid meme shit like cold showers, nofap, jelqing, stretching, etc its all broscience bs

keep squeezing your 4 inch dick while taking cold showers, abstaining from masturbating and spending all your money on worthless snake oil supplements, because if you dont, you're just weak willed, right?

>>39837603
nice sour grapes faggot

>>39833987
top fucking lel. explain to me how subjecting yourself to slightly chilly water a few minutes a day has any effect on hematopoesis, cell differentiation, clonal duplication, production of reactive oxygen species, somatic hypermutation, or anything else related to immune function. protip: you fucking can't

that's fine if you like cold showers but stop with the fucking broscience. people are so dumb. no wonder dr oz and dr phil are still on tv

>people that aren't op will unironically defend his post

>>39834066
Look anons! It's a real human bean with his life put together! He doesn't even use cold showers the absolute MADMAN!

>>39837603
>meme
>stretching

>>39837753
>Pseudointellectual: the post

>>39833987
A hot shower still does most of those things you fucking faggot

>>39834475
Yes, but if you're not around anyone with the cold virus you could sit in the freezer all day without catching shit.

Provide evidence for your claims. It's fine if you take cold showers but don't try to convert people with unsubstantiated bullshit broscience. I think the main reason you take cold showers is the bragging rights, and you're just rationalizing it now

>>39837787
please, feel free to soundly refute any of my points, or do like>>39837603 said and keep trying to make your tiny dick bigger in a cool shower while not jacking off before going about your day with height boosting inserts in your heeled dress shoes. there is literally no peer reviewed science to support the benefits of cold showers

>>39837813
>muh ebidense
Google you fucking pleb use it.

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>>39833987

>that image
>cold water showers will ''detoxify''...

Into the trash it goes.

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>>39834380

Tell us how its right other than appearingly completely made up assertions with no evidence backing it up at all.

>>39837813
Watch "Art of Manliness" on Cold Showers. iirc he sources his info with research studies.

>>39837863
I didn't see a single citation in the video or description. even if he did, most studies are flawed.

Used to do cold showers, but I always end up stopping during the winter because I don't like being a human snowman.

Might pick it up during the summer again, though I can't say I ever really noticed major benefits.

Could cold showers just be a jewish trick? asking for a friend I love the jews.

>>39837857

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17993252
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17958903
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25782017

hmm, that was easy

>>39833987
Cold therapy was actually found to be worse for revovery. Immunuty system isnt affected much, if any at all from just cold exposure.

Its more likely that you went to ThisIsWhatILike.com and only looked for. Benefits. If you like cold showers. Then do them. But they dont do much at all.

I did cold showers for some 3 or 4 months, thinking it was giving my immune system a boost, but then got this really nasty cold/flu and just gave them up afterwards. Besides from the really good feeling after getting out of the shower (which is amply compensated by the dreadful one when stepping into cold water), I don't think there were any tangible benefits to taking cold showers.

>>39837784
My bad, im stupid, i was talking about those guys who think that excessive stretching would make them grow taller.

Stretching the muscles is very important

>>39837895
Yeah, if you don't give a shit what the studies actually say I guess it's pretty easy.
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17993252
"In conclusion, wider and more rigorous studies would be needed to test the validity of the hypothesis"
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17958903
literally just a suggested hypothesis. no testing done at all
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25782017
jesus christ, do you even TRY to read the shit you're posting? "We subjected adult rats to a single local testicular heat treatment of water at 43°C for 30min." yeah, this study truly demonstrates the benefits of cold showers

>>39837923
>more studies need to be made
>that means cold shower benefits don't real
Skepticfag pls go

>>39837622
butthurt dicklet detected

>>39837895
Most high stimulating experiences will give change in depression. That doesnt mean it helps healthy people.

Just because it helps people with chronic fatigue doesnt mean it helps healthy people.
And a small acute increase in test does shit all for anything. And those points have NOTHING to do with what op describe. Except the testosterone part.

>>39837961
>Just because it helps people with chronic fatigue doesnt mean it helps healthy people.
Except it does mean that. If it shows benefit in people suffering from a condition, then healthy people could use that as a preventative were they to develop CF in the future.

Nice try, though.

>>39837961
Checking off the benefits that it would have on people is retarded.
And small boosts in tesosterone for HEALTHY people is massive.

>>39837976
What helps someone with a disease doesnt automatically help healthy people. The same way that very weak, old people, get strength from walking doesnt mean regulare people do.
And any form of activity will help toto prevent chronic fatigue WAY more than a cold shower.

>>39834382
Becoming The Iceman is the single best book I've ever bought.

Wim Hof is based

>>39837603
It's no meme brah, it's just the fact, mainly the sensation I got after taking an ice cold shower last night, was so great that I wanted to share with all of you but is seems some of you are too pussy to even try and that's ok, but don't be a hard kunt without even trying phag00t.

>>39837994
No, a small boost in test levels doesnt do much. Acute effects on hormones doesnt do much

And what benefits should this small spike give?

>>39838011
It will be more pronounced in people with a chronic ailment yeah, but that doesn't mean it won't help healthy people at all. Your point about walking is weak, regular people will absolutely get benefits from walking.

I like them because they're a hard thing to do on a cold winters morning and the feeling of alertness, excitement and at the same time, calm is a good one.

I don't really care what they may or may not do outside of that. They're worth it for that sensation alone.
It's a great way to wake the fuck up when all you really want to do is snuggle in bed and stay warm.

>>39837753
First, I told you the effects I got, it might be broscience but everything written with green is my own personal experience, I don't talk fairytales.

Then, finally someone with a legit point, but I'm going to explain you. All the viruses and bacteria are kept into your lymphatic system in order to keep them from making a human sick, when you take a cold shower, that lymphatic system is put into motion and the viruses and bacteria are pumped into the blood, therefore your immune system makes anticorps for them, and you get more resistant any immune to their kind. Of course, maybe you'll get sick once (same happens with vaccinations) but if you do them regularly you won't have anything much left in the lymphatic system to pump and you'll already have had anticorps for most of them, so that's where the godmode immunitary system comes from. It's not all broscience, but it's easier to spit shit than to do a search on google.

>>39838026
In healthy men who eat a healthy diet and are normally active, small spikes of testosterone can mean between a bit more energy and strength throughout the day.

>>39838011
>The same way that very weak, old people, get strength from walking doesnt mean regulare people do.

Regular people can't walk a full fucking mile at a good pace without sweating or getting drained slightly.

>>39837793
It doesn't, but feel free to stay in your comfort zone and keep telling you anythign that makes your boat float.

Let me tell you about a study, that conclusioned that hot water is bad for test levels and potency. Several men were put to a hot bath for 30 minutes everyday for 6 month, at the end of the study, none of them were still potent and the test levels in them significantly dropped.

>>39838035
Old people will get benefits from walking 20-100 meters. Regulare people wont. That was my example. What work for the sick doesnt automatically carry over to the healthy. Just like zinc and magnesium will boost the testosterone in deficient people, but not in non-deficient individuals.

>>39838062
No, it doesnt. If it did then why dont you feel the difference throughout the day? Who dont men have massive mood swings if tgey are so affect by a small difference?

I tend to use warm water then do a few cycles of warm-cold
cause I have RA and need the showers in the morning warm to loosen up my joints

tfw it's gonna get worse

>>39838086
>Old people will get benefits from walking 20-100 meters. Regulare people wont. That was my example.
And it's still incorrect. It's a foolish notion to suggest that regular people won't benefit from using the human body for what it was designed to do. You severely underestimate how much difference a little makes.

>>39834475

no, it's because in the cold weather everyone stays inside bunched up together

>>39838095
We do have massive moodswings, and more natural test doesn't just = more rage, it also means more happiness, more drive, more energy, more strength, more focus, more lust, more passion etc etc.

>>39838109
So thenbest people who live in colder climates have higher tests levels than people in warm climate? From the other guy here it seems like people who live in warm climates should have low test levels

>>39838109
Your mood is depend on most other hormones than test. You need a big difference in test levels to feel the difference.

I don't get why you guys came here with all these hate, I just shared my experience, also with some science supported facts. It's ok if you want to be a tiny bitch and stay in your comfort zone where the water is over 30 degrees C, but don't spread your shit around my post trying to disprove it, it was meant for people who want to get out of their comfort zone and try something new and benefical.

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> be Australian
> middle of summer
> mfw coming home hot and sweaty after going for a run and feeling that cold water run down my back

>>39838125
The cold shower seems like it's an isolated effect not the bodies reaction to constant cold.

It might have more to do with the instant uncomfortable situation that the body is placed under and has to adapt too.
Like HIIT or lifting weights or anger or sex.

>>39833987
yeah right, next you'll be telling me that SS isn't a troll

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>Hot water knob? Haven't touched it in months. I'm actually currently going through the process of having it uninstalled from my plumbing, they should be coming out sometime next week. I had to list a reason(s) on the work order as to why I am requesting my hot water knob to be removed and discarded. Would you can to hear the reasons? Well stay tuned friend. 2 reasons:
>1. Discipline
>2. Mental toughness
>My property manager was initially questioning my reasons, but I explained to her that by taking cold showers I am actually able to develop discipline and mental toughness. After a long and heated (note that I needn't anything heated, especially my water) debate, I was able to convince her to put the work order in. Now I'm living a great life, warm water free. I even started forcing my gf to take cold showers with me. I refuse to date an inferior female, and I explained to her that if she can't learn to accept and love cold showers as I have then we really have no business being together anyways.

>>39838135
Small boosts in test have a really profound effect on well functioning healthy bodies.
That's a fact.

>>39838187
No its Not. Layne Norton who has a phd and does research says it doesnt do anything. And i rather believe a, lifter who produces studies than a random guy online.

>>39838025
I don't give a flying fuck about your placebo effects, nobody in this entire thread has posted evidence that it works, nobody, including me can find it, because it doesn't exist, this silly shit does fucking nothing.

Also, if you think you're tough for taking cold showers, I feel sorry for you, I really do.

>>39838214
He does short term studies and reads short term studies while looking for instant results that are equivalent to a geared up lifter.
He's looking for the kind of results that leads to athletic excellence and excessive muscle in short periods of time.
Not overall well being and slight boosts in strength and energy.

Unless you can show me what he said exactly and aren't just paraphrasing.

>>39838164
I admit, I kek'd

>>39838222
Lol why r u so mad bro
You're just all tunnel vision and ignoring all the results.

>>39838228
He says that short term studies doesnt mean much because whats short term rarely correlates to long term.

No, need to talk about what he does when you clearly dont know.

>>39837784
>almost 2017
>still thinks stretching has any benefit to muscle recovery

>>39838143
How about this, stepping on small pieces of broken glass every day increases your testosterone levels, also supplements your bloodstream with iron, while simultaneously detoxifying your body because of the blood loss, it also helps you achieve spiritual enlightenment by increasing your pain tolerance.

Anybody who doesn't follow my routine is a scrawny little weakling PUSSY, ima go shitpost on /fit/ why everybody needs to try it

>>39838237
So you're saying that he's saying that he's commenting on something that doesn't produce anything that he can talk confidently about?
I don't get it.

Elaborate.

Cause all I'm getting is a bunch of faggots screaming COLD SHOWERS DONT GET YOU AS BIG AS STEROIDS CAN!! BUY STEROIDS LOOK WE HAVE A STEROID THREAD UP RIGHT NOW!!

Shit's gay and stupid.

>>39838234
people are calling you out for posting bullshit broscience and you're just like "oh you're just a pussy for not trying it" and then you get hate, what do you expect

>>39833987
I hope you know your image is a broscience meme mess. And tldr because of it.
>Cleanse your circulatory system
>Detoxify your organs

Oh I am laughing. Do you juice and use essential oils on your cyrstal necklaces?

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>>39838164

Personally never gained anything from cold showers. But I run cold normally myself. I've baths are a different story but from my experience I'm calling bullshit on the whole method. Hot water has always helped more for me.

>>39838472
Also it feels like some bullshit excuse to feel manly and strong to take cold showers. I have to say that after a month in basic training, I never felt muscular relief as great as a hot shower after a month of getting my shit pushed in and taking 1 minute frrezing cold showers.

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>>39833987

I bet you also using a lifting plug, don't you OP?

>>39838490
The fuck is wrong with you faggot.
You got low self esteem son?
You got all upset that they called your manhood into question for you not taking a cold shower?

Go be a bitch somewhere else.

>>39838500
Never heard of that, can you elaborate?

However, let's throw in some personal stats:
>20yo
>currently 77kg
>180kg x 1 deadlift at ~74kg bodyweight
>140kg x 1 squat
>110kg x 2 benchpresses (full motion, until it hits the chest and then back up, no cheating)

Been into lifting for a few years, doing srs since about 1.6 yrs

>>39838501
No? I'm saying cold showers did shit all as a personal experience compared to a lot of people throwing around bro science explinations. First opportunity I got I took a half an hour shower singing with the other guys in the shower because it was the first hot shower we had in a month. So it just feels like the cold shower thing is bullshit.

>>39838222
Let's suppose that feeling amazing after taking a cold shower is a placebo effect. Does it matter? If you feel amazing after taking a cold shower every morning, and channel this good mood into something productive, does it really matter -why- you're feeling amazing?

>inb4 hasty generalizations

I'm only making this argument regarding cold showers.

>>39838164
kek

>>39838844
I think thats perfectly fine, if the whole post was just about "I feel better after taking cold showers" then by all means keep doing that.

But this has nothing to do with what OP claims is a fact, he's saying it boosts testosterone, gives you a godlike immunity system etc, which is just lies.

>>39838059
This is literally all false

Cold showers don't actually do any of those things.

>>39838059
>I don't talk fairytales.

Worse. You talk nothing but broscience.

>>39839384
Idk my penis grew 3 inches due to cold showers and i began to give off alpha pheromones that girls cant resist. I think the cold water helps to stimulate the electro-endocrine network to cleanse my body of warm water toxins.

>>39834184
>Hot water heater

This is something I heard a lot when I worked labor for a plumbing company. It's a water heater. Not a hot water heater. If the water was already hot there'd be no need to heat it lol.

>>39833987
Benefits: Increases delusions

>>39839029
First, if you read the post carefully you'll see that those greenpoints are just my experiences, I've underlined that those are my own personal experiences, not facts, if you understood it wrong it's your problem

>>39839361
Lol, come with facts, the same way I can say that you don't exist.

Why are all you fags discussing the shit out of this? Can you not for once try to end you shower cold and see for yourselves?

All i can say is that:
-after a hot shower i was always sweating and my skin got dry as fuck, with cold showers my skin is very soft
-feels good and relaxed
-helps reduce muscle soreness

all this is enough for me to end my showers cold.
just try it and if it doesnt work for you dont do them.

>>39833987
K I'ma do cold showers for a month and if any placebo effects kick in, why not.

>>39838222
See >>39834382

Then try to rationalize that there's no benefits.
>but muh ebidense

https://www.jackkruse.com/cold-thermogenesis-easy-start-guide/
https://www.jackkruse.com/the-evolution-of-the-leptin-rx/

>>39838214
>Layne Norton
>PhD in Nutritional Sciences.

> is qualified to address the biologic effects of cold exposure.

you really want to keep this up?

The only reason I'm currently taking hot baths instead is because I am soaking the cyst that has formed on the shaft of my dick. It has nearly gone and cold showers are awesome

>>39840901
>Appeal to Authority fallacy

>>39840901
>>39840715

I dont understand losers like this. The point of the thread is cold water benefits. Why the fuck are you even here, just to argue? Fuck off theres literally 49 other threads

Dont reply to people like this, anons. They're bitter losers who think they are smart, all you are doing is validating their pathetic life when you engage them

>>39833987
>cleanse
>detoxify
>eliminates toxins
Oh look, quackery.

>>39840989
I agree that it's quackery but since when do showers NOT cleanse?

>>39840952
they always pop up on the things which are hardest to acheive. It is an attempt to justify the fact that theyre too weak to even try it.

>>39840989
Remember, modern medicine has not given us any advancements in 50 years. Antibiotics and surgury are the only two fields, all of modern medicine is money grabbing jew tricks

>>39840989
i always replace the word toxins with heavy metals and excess minerals/etc

>>39835058
Maybe if you applied all that willpower to something worth while, you would stop being fat and afford heating.

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>>39837833
>expects me to put in the time to link him proof
>can't do a simple google search
>expects me to take more than a minute to type a response
Go back to your died up skin and shit hair. When will they learn?

You know guys, thinking or knowing other people are wrong on the internet doesn't mean you have to get butt mad and convert them. If you were really a secure individual it wouldn't matter so much if someone was doing something you don't agree with, especially something as meaningless as cold showers. But no, you fags will get yourselves so worked up just to prove you got the biggest dong on this anonymous Indonesian kite making forum.

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>>39841030
either a troll pretending to be retarded or an actual retard.

>>39833987
Cold showers are a meme. It's in the same category as no fap, they both offer NO BENEFIT.

>>39843380
>i failed at doing both so i'll just say they have no benefit to mask my sour grapes

>>39843392
Stop falling for meme brotier shit. Let me guess, you do no pillow and no wipe as well? You're retarded.

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>>39843436
>"""brotier""" shit is just a meme! its not that it was too hard for me i swear! they have no benefit anyway!
Keep reaching fox.

>>39843380
Proof?

>>39842361
T. Butthurt med student

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried this the other night and it was amazing, it was a battle to get through the initial discomfort but it felt amazing afterwards

>>39837874
being a faggot skeptic wont get u laid

>>39837895
b b b but studies aren't completely accurate and are subject to bbbiases and individual inaccuracies in data reporting thus therefore rendering your argument somewhat irrelevant to our current predicament which happens to be the debate of whether perceived placebo effects of cold showers is present in thy circumstance, look at this
www.harvardyalestudies.com/lotsoffancywords/study2154/allstudiesareflawed

>>39833987
I only take cold showers because I noticed 40% of my electricity bill is to have warm water so I shut it off.

>>39840952
u spoke my mind

theres people who get off on arguing, theyre social outcasts irl

i tried doing this but i literally had to flex every muscle or else i started shivering pretty bad, any tips?

>>39844732
Thanks, that's what my thread was all about, make someone's life better or at least showing them this option, because most of the people tend to stay in their comfort zone and they're not even aware it is possible to take a cold shower, after doing that, it's everyone own decision if they keep making them or not, not stupid arguing, especially that I specified that I'm going to share my experiences not necessarily facts.

However, it seems like we got a lot of butthurt people on /fit/ who probably can't do a cold shower because they are a couple of pussies and comes here to brag about how they are useless anyways.


I honestly believe that everyone who ever tried a cold shower knows that if feels great, and everyone who done them regularly for a longer period of time knows that all these benefits are real, placebo or not, it's the same result so what's the big deal?

>>39844968
Yes, start slowly from the feet and move up to the shoulders. Also concentrate on your breath, inhale as deeply and slow as you can. Normally your toracic cavity would expand and its max at this point, so you would keep your body heated enough to not shiver. Just breath deeply and slowly and it's ok if you flex the muscles in you back and/or pecs, just don't flex every single muscle in your body because then, you might have a problem.

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I took a cold shower once and I litterally went into hyperventilation for no reason... is that normal? like I was basically catching my breath all the time

>>39845190
thats the point you dickhead.

I mostly do cold showers due to my sensitive skin and hair, and find that they have helped keep my skin from drying out, though that may be more attributable to simply not using hot water, which dries out my skin and hair and scalp.

>>39833987
I started taking cold showers a few months ago, it really does help.

reminder that this the next logical step to take. See if you have that European blood in you or die figuring that out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQwFZ_xFdM&t=4s

>>39840924
you're not using that argument properly


my point is valid because that faggots degree doesn't pertain to the topic of cold.. is cold a nutrient? No.. therefore citing the opinion of said unqualified expert fails to establish a basis for the assertion made

>>39845190
you need to keep it up until you no longer react that way.. then you are cold adapted and can really begin to get the benefits of cold .

Forget all these idiot nay sayers they are all clueless morond

>>39834043
Does not create the same effect.

>>39833987

None of that is true you fucking idiot.

>>39845190
Try to focus on not gasping when it hits you. Your purpose is to control your body. Do not let nature determine how you feel.

I absolutely recommend you read >>39838020

>>39833987
the thing is, it fucking hurts

>>39838105
this

>>39837895
Always read what you post, that was a joke right?

>Take them.
>Front face becomes crusted and orange without almost bi-daily skin-cleaning cream now.
What did I do wrong?

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>>39833987
Fuck this meme, who /steaminghotshower/ here?

>wake up
>get out of warm duvet
>it's cold as shit, either because it's winter or because it's summer and flatmates have turned thermostat to sub-zero tempratures
>groggy as fuck, eyes barely open
>drag my shivering self to shower
>turn it on
>feel the hot water soothe all my aches
>the water runs down my back and my muscles relax
>reach a meditative trance of comfiness as I sit on the shower floor with steamy water caressing my body
>emerge from the shower a phoenix rising from the ashes, fully toasty and awake

I don't really notice fuck all benefits realistically. but I've still been taking cold showers at least 4-5 a week 1-2 times a day for over a year. it's just become my preferred temp for a shower.

It's also such a habit by now that I tell myself how am i gonna beast it all day today if I can't even shut up and have a cold shower for 5 minutes right now. and I always jump in.

some people say you never get used to cold showers but I'd say that's bullshit, I don't hesitate anymore, or gasp or anything. and yeah I take them as cold as I can, which in winter is too cold to put my head under for longer than a second without getting a brain-freeze pain.

I only take days off if Im feeling sick or like my immune systems off. and sometimes I do hot if I really wanna rub my dick all squeaky clean if I'm expecting a blowjob

>>39834115
how do i become a super saiyan

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>>39833987
you single handedly convinced me never to do this stupid meme by using that retarded pic
>mfw to smart too fall for shitty memes

>>39849244
Too edgy to even try, mfw you are the only one who loses and I don't really give a fuck if you do it or not. I was just trying to share a very nice experience, I never knew /fit/izens were so edgy and retarded.

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>>39849438
go torture yourself in the shower thanks to a troll meme
i bet you also do gomad+ss and make crystals with bleach

>>39834066

>nobel prize winners in physics

Who the fuck wants to be a nobel prize winner in physics? Do you know what most physicists look like? Yes, the most autistic betas you can imagine

Maths on the other hand is alpha as fuck

>falling for the cold shower meme
>falling for the no fap meme
>falling for the /fit/ gives actual advice meme
>falling for any 'advice' on /fi/t
jesus, why haven't you killed yourself yet?

>>39847764

>im too much of little bitch to have cold showers
>better tell people i shower with steaming hot water, still sounds less unmanly than lukewarm

Actually, hot water is the worst you can get, lukewarm water is still somewhat ok.

Enjoy low test due to frying your balls, irritated skin and bad hair.

>>39833987
>Removes toxins

>Implying I don't have kidneys

>>39849840
>implying your skin has no eliminatory function

>>39849702
>this is what mathfags actually believe

>>39849743
>falling for the ironic clinical depression and telling kys to anyone who you disagree with

>>39833987
>"toxins"
>no credible sources
Fucking idiot

How cold

>>39851376
full cold

>>39833987
>godmode immunity system
Only if you do contrast showers. Cold showers are shit for imune system.

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>>39833987
Look, i'm from Russia and we have so called "walruses" here, people who do this stuff - cold showers, winter river swimming and etc. And this is well known here that this people usually have problems with immunity and cardiovascular system.
The real benefits for health has russian "banya" - sauna, where you combine heat and cold.

>>39852174
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4042576/Can-daily-saunas-reduce-risk-dementia-Alzheimer-s-Finnish-study-finds-elderly-men-66-likely-diagnosed-hot-treatments-frequently.html#reader-comments


the heat creates sweating which boosts elimination of many toxins like metals ; aluminum, mercury, cadmium, lead etc the cold supposedly stimulates white blood cells which fight infection

>>39849702
Lol. Math and physics major here. Math is lamer, there is a reason there is no Nobel prize for math.