Cold showers
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Cold showers are brutal and will toughen you up quick.
To me it makes a person mentally tough.
Certainly wakes you up and alert.
To me it makes a person mentally tough.
Certainly wakes you up and alert.
I've done it in the past.
My boys have done it after I talked about it.
Really tests your mental skills.
I'm a huge fan of ice baths. Cold showers suck though.
One of (my) life's mysteries I guess.
One of (my) life's mysteries I guess.
I can’t do it. I can do a cool shower in the summer, but F that cold.
I have been doing cold plunges for a few minutes here and there though. I can’t tolerate it below 50 though.
I have been doing cold plunges for a few minutes here and there though. I can’t tolerate it below 50 though.
Only cold showers I have taken were in high school after away football games when the other schools old sh*tty locker rooms didn't have hot water.
Few things better than a nice hot shower IMO.
Few things better than a nice hot shower IMO.
I love them now and then. It doesn't have to be ice cold, just out a normal comfort zone.
Perfect for hot summer days.
Perfect for hot summer days.
Not by choice, although there was a time while camping in the Smokies where I used a park shower house equipped with zero hot water,.. Very quick event.
No, but I do rub my balls on some dude's Sprite. Rumor is he likes it. Weird.
Eff cold showers and cold plunge baths. Give me hot water and steam.
I gave them up after visiting Moscow in 1985, to wit...
At that time (and maybe continuing), the Soviets would turn off all of the hot water to large swaths of the city to check the pipes, which typically took 7-10 days. After a few days, all of the students in our group were getting cranky, and our hair was starting to look like Kramer in the low-flow shower head episode of Seinfeld.
At that point, our Russian instructors, one of whose father was apparently a reasonably prominent Party guy, took pity on us. After our morning classes, we went to a non-public Russian sauna for Party people. Entered the center hall, girls went right, guys went left. Went in for the first session, and the steam was just unbelievably hot. Sweat is pouring off of me. Step out, jump into the luke-cold pool, rinse and repeat (the second time getting tapped with birch branches). Go into the locker and hang out; learned how to open bottles of beer by leveraging each bottle's cap against the other. So we finished up and head back to the center hall. The girls were positive glowing, including this one girl who was just all-american girl beautiful and a real sweetheart. (Eventually did some time in military and became a NYT editor).
But that's not all. Walked over to the Metropol Hotel, and had fantastic Chicken Kiev for one of my best meals when I was there (they usually served you according to their national stereotype of your diet, so we got a lot of bad stringy beef).
But that's not all either. From there, Swan Lake at the Bolshoi. Almost fell asleep on the Metro back to our hotel.
Probably the most relaxed day of my 60 years on this earth. So the moral of the story is, why on earth would you take a cold shower if there's even the slightest random chance you can hit a Russian Sauna, dine sumptuously at the Metropol, and see Swan Lake at the Bolshoi?
At that time (and maybe continuing), the Soviets would turn off all of the hot water to large swaths of the city to check the pipes, which typically took 7-10 days. After a few days, all of the students in our group were getting cranky, and our hair was starting to look like Kramer in the low-flow shower head episode of Seinfeld.
At that point, our Russian instructors, one of whose father was apparently a reasonably prominent Party guy, took pity on us. After our morning classes, we went to a non-public Russian sauna for Party people. Entered the center hall, girls went right, guys went left. Went in for the first session, and the steam was just unbelievably hot. Sweat is pouring off of me. Step out, jump into the luke-cold pool, rinse and repeat (the second time getting tapped with birch branches). Go into the locker and hang out; learned how to open bottles of beer by leveraging each bottle's cap against the other. So we finished up and head back to the center hall. The girls were positive glowing, including this one girl who was just all-american girl beautiful and a real sweetheart. (Eventually did some time in military and became a NYT editor).
But that's not all. Walked over to the Metropol Hotel, and had fantastic Chicken Kiev for one of my best meals when I was there (they usually served you according to their national stereotype of your diet, so we got a lot of bad stringy beef).
But that's not all either. From there, Swan Lake at the Bolshoi. Almost fell asleep on the Metro back to our hotel.
Probably the most relaxed day of my 60 years on this earth. So the moral of the story is, why on earth would you take a cold shower if there's even the slightest random chance you can hit a Russian Sauna, dine sumptuously at the Metropol, and see Swan Lake at the Bolshoi?
For sure! And I don’t even know what an interstate bath house is!!! Hahahaha!!!
Call me crazy, but I'd have been just a bit on edge of a "Party guy" dividing us up and taking us to the showers.
Me neither, but DA HITMAN talks about them A LOT so I'm thinking he's the authority on them in Clayton County and maybe beyond.
You are new here 😉. You have good taste in beers. And you give the Hitman the business 👍. That is all….
nah. back then Russians were just people. The ones you had to watch for were the KGB whores running the honey traps in the bars of the western hotels.
The Exodus 90 spiritual program includes giving up hot showers. I haven't done it myself, but my teenage son said that cold showers really helped with his skin complexion.
I have done them every single day for the past 3 months at around 60 degrees for about 1.5 to 2 minutes, sometimes up to 3 depending on mood.
First doing a lukewarm regular shower, then doing the cold interval before shutting it off.
Have had 3 various surgeries the past few years and had read about the health benefits- mainly decreased inflammation.
I will say I’ve noticed improvement in muscle tension as well as much improved sleep. I plan on keeping it routine for the foreseeable future.
First doing a lukewarm regular shower, then doing the cold interval before shutting it off.
Have had 3 various surgeries the past few years and had read about the health benefits- mainly decreased inflammation.
I will say I’ve noticed improvement in muscle tension as well as much improved sleep. I plan on keeping it routine for the foreseeable future.
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