How to Successfully Start Doing Cold Showers

Having a healthy lifestyle is important.

I highly recommend trying the "Wim Hof Method". It's one of the best things I've ever tried in my life.

As he states on his website:

“The Wim Hof Method can be defined by its simple, easy-to-apply approach and its strong scientific foundation. It’s a practical way to become happier, healthier, and stronger.”

Dropping Your Average Heartbeat

As you take cold showers, your body will drop in average temperature and do this for a while, decreasing your average heartbeat, and if that happens every day, it will take away your stress.

As you keep taking cold showers or ice baths, your body is going to get used to these cold temperatures — you are training your vascular system. It’s taking care of your blood flow through your body and cleaning everything.

It's the perfect way to detox in the short run. But you shouldn't take the results for granted.

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The Dangers

There's one thing they didn't tell me.

Don’t put your head in the cold shower when you’ve never done it. You’ll regret it. It will cause a brain freeze as you’ve never experienced before, so if you would consider it a life-changing experience, it is.

Your body isn’t used to cold temperatures.

So you may start to feel tingling and tremors throughout your body. This is the natural high that cold showering can cause. At this point, your body thinks it is in danger and injects a shot of adrenaline.

Your body resets, so to speak.

This can feel pretty scary if you’ve never experienced this before so just sit back and recover from the shock.

Keep Breathing

Breathing is incredibly important.

This is not just letting air flow through your lungs, you have to consciously see yourself breathing. In this way, you control your body much better.

During the moments when your body experiences cold, it tries to adapt to the environment.

This takes energy and through your conscious breathing, this is not at the expense of yourself. Keep yourself calm by breathing in deeply and breathing out calmly.

Try not to hyperventilate because then it takes so much more effort for your body to get used to the cold temperatures and you tend to quit much sooner.

Bryan Dijkhuizen

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