Start your day with a bang. Take a cold shower, you don’t have to go hardcore. You can gradually increase the temperature and the time spent as you go along, but don’t sleep on this,it really . Don’t procrastinate, like the Nike’s slogan so famously quotes: “Just Do it”!
- Cold showers boost recovery after exercise
Athletes often take ice baths after vigorous training do reduce soreness. No worries, you don’t have to go to that extreme (thank God), but you can obtain a similar benefit with a quick cold shower after your training sessions. It will surely help you and your muscles will agree.
2. Cold showers increase mood and alertness
Many people feel groggy when they take that first step out of bed. So a great way to wake first thing in the morning is to take a cold shower before you go to work. When cold water pours over your body, your breathing deepens in response to the shock of the cold (this is your body trying to keep you warm by increasing overall oxygen intake). Your heart rate will also increase, resulting in a rush of blood through your body that will help you get energized for the day.
3.Cold showers strengthen immunity and circulation
Cold showers can aid weight loss in an unexpected way. The human body contains two types of fat tissue, white fat and brown fat. White fat is accumulated when we consume more calories than our body needs to function, and we don’t burn these calories for energy. This body fat piles up at our waist, lower back, neck, and thighs, and is the one we all struggle to eliminate. Brown fat is the good fat, which generates heat to keep our bodies warm, and is activated when exposed to extreme cold, according to a Harvard Medical School study.
4.Cold showers burn fat
There are two kinds of fat in your body: white fat and brown fat. White fat is the bad guy and brown fat is the good guy. White fat is the body fat we all know and struggle to get rid of. When we consume more calories than our body needs to function and we don’t burn those calories for energy, they are stored as white fat, which tends to accumulate at your waist, lower back, neck, and thighs. Brown fat is the good guy you might have never even heard of, and its function is to generate heat to keep your body warm. Here’s the good news: when brown fat is activated due to extreme cold, it burns calories to keep you warm, which could provide a helpful assist in your weight loss plan.
5.Relieves Depression
Cold showers have been shown to relieve depression symptoms due to the intense impact of cold receptors in the skin, which send an overwhelming amount of electrical impulses from the peripheral nerve endings to the brain. Thus, it produces an ant depressive effect, and boosts moods, making it a pick-me-up experience. A 2008 study found that cold hydrotherapy has an analgesic effect, and does not appear to have noticeable side effects or cause dependence. This treatment included one to two cold showers of 38 degrees Fahrenheit, two to three minutes long, followed by a five-minute gradual adaptation to make the procedure less shocking.
5.Refines Hair and Skin
When it comes to hair and skin, a cold shower is one of the ways to maintain a healthy appearance. Hot water has the tendency to dry out our skin, so it’s best to use cold water to tighten your cuticles and pores, which will prevent them from getting clogged. Cold water can “seal” the pores in the skin and scalp too, preventing dirt from getting in.
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