>Thought on cold showers?

>>40606722
Fucking cold man.

Make your Oui Oui shrivel up
Wakes you up though and feels refreshing afterwards. Skin feels tight, hair feels shiny

Help me sleep a lot better, make me feel great afterwards, coldness in general seems to affect me much less afterwards.

Also hot water dehydrates your hair and skin so cold showers improve aesthetics

File: Screenshot_20170113-095423.jpg (674KB, 1411x900px) Image search: [Google]

674KB, 1411x900px

They're a meme

>>40606742
WRONG

I always take a cold shower after a normal shower. It's the best

>>40606722
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049052/

lowers test

>>40606722
For some reason they give me a tortuously throbbing boner. I didn't understand the whole "cold shower to stop urges" thing growing up.

I like contrast showers

>>40606722
Its a meme and not a very funny one

>>40607230
sorry anon! I will take a timeout and try harder next time!

ganbatte gosaimasu desu!~

>>40607320
You are a masochist

>>40606722
They are shit and are actually worse than doing nothing.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP270570/full

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25760154

During the summer I cold showered for a month. By day 8 I had maxed out the tap. Now that it's winter (anywhere from -10 to -30 degrees) the pipes are much colder and so is the water. I'm at about 30% cold these days. I noticed my recovery to the cold water is much faster after a workout as opposed to in the morning.

>>40607498
Do you retards even read these fucking studies you post?

>>40607301
Cold stress decrease testoserone? If by stress you mean feeling awesome, than maybe...

File: 1487726902099.jpg (79KB, 500x509px) Image search: [Google]

79KB, 500x509px

>>40606722
Wow, sure feels like a 2015 meme in here ;^)

>>40607665
They just read the part where it said it can lower test a little bit while skipping the part about cold showers pretty much being good in everything else, also lowering cortisol etc.


tldr theyre really good for you. Helps in muscle recovery.

Read through the study this anon linked, the wiley one, and learned new things.

>In conclusion, these two studies offer new and important insights into how cold water immersion during recovery from strength exercise affects chronic training adaptations and some of the molecular mechanisms that underpin such adaptations. Cold water immersion delayed or inhibited satellite cell activity and suppressed the activation of p70S6K after acute strength exercise. These effects may have been compounded over time to diminish the expected increases in muscle mass and strength as a result of training. The results of these studies challenge the notion that cold water immersion improves recovery after exercise. Individuals who use strength training to improve athletic performance, recover from injury or maintain their health should therefore reconsider whether to use cold water immersion as an adjuvant to their training.

Dont use cold showers if you wanna grow!

>>40606722
I take not hot but not freezing showers because it feels good after being sweaty desu

>>40607665
Do you? The first link is pretty straightforward in its conclusions, cold water immersion after strength training inhibits long term muscle growth and strength progression.

>>40609023
The study seem to have been done going straight from exercise to cold water.
Doesn't seem to take into account cold water by itself.

>>40608532
all of that just to find out
>da body no grow when blasted with water colder than the rock steady temp it likes to always be at
gee, what a fuckin shocker

>>40607865
>helps in muscle recovery
No they don't. You would know that if you actually read the studies. Stop spreading bad science.

>>40610181
You are retarded. Stop moving the goalposts.

>>40606722
>tehe i'm sucha blogggerino x-))) pls subscrib

>>40611698
Nobody's moving the goalposts, you utter retard, who said it was necessary to take a cold shower right after lifting?

>muh bad science
You're the idiot drastically simplifying the conclusions of the studies you link.

>>40611698
By the way, just the rub in your face the fact that you didn't read the article you posted:

>One hour head-out water immersions (WI) in various temperatures (32°C, 20°C, and 14°C) produced various effects.

This is what the study is referring to, not a five minute cold shower. Duration being a fundamental factor, this study is essentially inapplicable in this context.

>>40611873
Trying to move the goalposts again. You placebo faggots are as bad as vegans. You believe in a meme. Get over it

>>40611986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd1f5Zp5g7M
get fucked

>>40610221
What about very hot showers?

>>40606722
I always dread the cold. But I keep taking cold showers because I feel amazing afterwards.

File: reddi.jpg (37KB, 396x382px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 396x382px

>>40612035
>Joe Rogan as a source

>>40606722
It fucks up my shoulders