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[longdi]

Highly recommended! Morning before work, night after coming back.

No amount of latte or espresso can keep me awake at the office this effectively.

My skin feels and looks more sexy and soft for you to touch.

 

[triplestation]

in the summer yeah

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I've taken maybe 4 cold showers in life..... when power was out for a couple days. Hated it. All I remember was it being freakishly cold and soap takes triple the time to wash off.

Even if it's summer, all my showers are hot.

 

[Onikaan]

I used to take a cold shower daily and I really miss doing it. I've gotten lazy and just want the comfort of heat.

Need to get back to it.

 

[Tesseract]

oh hell yeah welcome to the psycho maniac club

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

It's Modelo time foo

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

People with known heart disease or a risk of heart disease should not chance the potential consequences, according to Dr. Helene Glassberg, an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
An abrupt submersion in cold water, whether a shower or even jumping into a cold pool, could put certain people at risk for heart complications including heart attack or stroke.
“Abrupt exposure to cold water causes your blood vessels to restrict, causes you to take a deep breath, causes your heart rate and blood pressure to potentially go up and this could potentially cause a stressor on the heart,” Glassberg told TODAY.
“I’m not sure if the health benefits are strong enough to outweigh the risks,” she said. “So for anyone with risk, I’d caution them before jumping into something like that.”
Elliott said she agreed those with cardiovascular issues or risks should avoid cold showers. But she added, “If you don’t have any underlying medical conditions, then I don’t see any harm in trying to do it.”

 

[Tesseract]

meh, there's worse ways to go

 

[Weilthain]

I like jumping into “cold” swimming pools but cold showers no thanks

 

[longdi]

I don't jump into cold shower either. You need prep time. Have a cup of hot coffee, shave brush ye teeth. Then enter naked into the shower, start either with your head or your ass, acclimatizate that cold ez pz.

 

[Sub_Level]

Its fun in the winter when shit is freezing. But in the summer its just lukewarm water because it gets so hot around here.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Never. I recognize the benefits, but the mental benefits of stepping into a warm, relaxing shower cocoon of comfiness, ,well outweigh them for me.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

I have warm showers. I hate it too hot or cold.

But personally...I love my baths.

 

[plushyp]

My skin feels and looks more sexy and soft for you to touch.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I guess you think you're pretty cool after taking a cold shower, huh?

But seriously a warm shower and a cup of coffee with breakfast is still the way to go.

 

[Mistake]

I tried it before, and it wasn’t bad, but I need hot showers in the winter. I jumped into a cold spring recently, and my hair felt brand new

 

[Winter John]

I always have a cold shower after I come back from my morning run. It's refreshing as shit. Also, it's a real good hangover cure.

 

[haxan7]

Do you guys take a hot shower first, then turn it to cold? Or full cold from the start?

I’ve been taking a regular hot shower, then finishing with a few minutes in full cold for about a year. I didn’t always do it in the summer, because the water was barely cold here.

 

[Kamina]

No thanks, i like my shower hot

 

[n0razi]

Thats nothing.... try abstaining from sugars, alcohol, and caffeine for a real change

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Hugh Jackman said he used to cold shower on a morning before filming for wolverine and that's how he seemed so pissed off all of the time...because he was pissed off.

 

[Kamina]

Thats nothing.... try abstaining from sugars, alcohol, and caffeine for a real change

I already avoid sugar on minimum 5 days a week (gotta make exceptions to enjoy life every now and then), caffeine isnt really important either, but you have take the beer out of my cold dead hands.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Cold showers empower me.

 

[Mihos]

No thanks, I like my balls on the outside.

 

[isual]

its really good. you just gotta handle that first minute and sing or shouy something.

i go "hallehh humballauh ozaaagalummm balaaa hallehhhh humballah ozaagalumballah." something like that.

 

[DrJohnGalt]

Yep, I do this too. I start warm, soap up, then rinse off and spend a few minutes under the cold water. It's supposed to have good physical benefits, but for me it's more about strengthening my willpower and grit. Same thing with intermittent fasting.

 

[Fox Mulder]

I did it when I couldn’t pay the natural gas bill for a month. It sucked at first but you really take an efficient shower to soap, shampoo, and get the fuck out.

 

[Ikutachi]

Hated having my balls shrunk.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You didn’t pay your heating bill, huh OP?

 

[Phase]

When I take a cold shower my nipples get hard and my pecs look better, so there's that.

 

[Foamy]

Nah I'm good. I don't need reminders of when I had to take cold showersin the dark because my loser parents couldn't pay their bills on time.

 

[CoffeeExpress]

I need to warm up in the mornings, so no

 

[s34ab]

I can't stand cold or hot showers. Needs to be room temperature.

 

[CyberPanda]

Ewww. Cold showers are vile.

I prefer to take hot as fuck showers until my skin blisters.

 

[Rockondevil]

Maximum hot tap with a bees dick of cold.

 

[Kadayi]

I used to do cold showers daily (picked it up of hearing about Wim Hof) definitely dramatically improved cold resistance, however, my shower didn't approve of the constant changing of the temperature and I'm a little loathe to mess around with the new one. Will likely get back into the cold showers again, but it's a little late in the year to start up (gotta start slow and build up the resistance).

 

[Tesseract]

cold shower after exercising like an animal is a mistake i won't make again

 

[dorkimoe]

I did it for a week, it actually wasn't that bad. But its nothing to a hot shower . The benefits of a cold shower are supposed to be really good too.