SHORTS

How to Take a Cold Shower and Not Totally Hate It

A step by step guide.

Photo by Joyce McCown on Unsplash

All those bros taking 5 a.m. cold showers? Why let them have all the fun, when cold showers…

• Wake you up
• Increase circulation
• Activate sexy-sounding “brown fat” that can increase lifespan
• Allow you to preach to people who have “normal” showers! Losers!

But how do you actually turn that tap to the blue dot, every morning?

You need a system!

My system stems mostly from Wim Hof (aka The Iceman), but also from my own trial and error over the last three years.

Try it out!

Disclaimer: do not try this unless you are fit and healthy.

Steps to heaven:

• Shower normally. Clean all the things.
• As soon as you’re done, start breathing deeply. This is the trigger for everything that follows.
• Take ten (or so) deep breaths: in through the nose, out through the mouth. Stop before you get dizzy!
• Hold that last breath in. While you’re holding it, step back out of the water and turn the tap to cold.
• Keep holding that…