Let's get real for a minute

>What does cold showers provide?
Heart attacks. No seriously, that shit stresses your heart out, don't fall for the "it wakes you and refreshes!" meme.
Sudden extreme temp changes is not good for the body, I don't get why people are so against taking a warm shower and ease up, assuming you're showering at home where you can use all the hot water you want. Just relax, nigga.

I do 30 seconds

Pretty sure you don't know what a heart attack is

I find that my hair responds better to it than hot showers

OMG that looks just like a pejnis

>open image
>look at ass for about 0.25 seconds
>but dat hoodie
>tfw you will never hug a girl in a soft hoodie
>tfw you will never smell the perfume on the hood
>tfw you will never cuddle with a girl in a soft hoodie

How far down does it go bros?

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she has nice feet

As far as health benefits go, I'm pretty sure cold showers do jack shit. I'd say 75% of my showers in the last three years have been ice cold and it makes no difference. I only do it because I always feel really good afterwards, it's just refreshing as fuck compared to a hot shower.

why so negative, just keep improving and good things will come user

I mean I have but she was a cunt
stop worshipping women and do something productive

disgusting slut

who hurt you user

I just have cold showers every now and then, makes me focus a bit more on the day as I'm trying to control my breathing, just basic discipline reasons. Otherwise if its scorching I'll have one at night which helps me sleep better.

Until you make it stop.

they spike your cortisol and adrenaline, this rush is what makes people feel good, t b h i don't think jumping into ice cold showers are usually a good practice for people, but maybe very slowly acclimating yourself to cold showers (like 1 degree change in water temperature every two weeks or something like that) to the point where you get very used to cold water, may be very beneficial. Shocking your body is not healthy, and spiked cortisol is not healthy, but brown fat (which takes a long time to accumulate, maybe even years) is good, as is getting used to colder temperatures (for obvious reasons) and the act of refusing yourself little pleasures like hot showers is a good discipline practice, my father took cold showers his whole life, always woke up before 6 am, worked out for two hours every day, etc.

All in all cold showers are probably good but shocking your body is bad, so acclimate to them very slowly, if you feel uncomfortable in the shower, then the temp is too low, the point is to become used to the cold water, so adjust slowly

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Wakes you up a bit. Good for lethargic days.

Also a cold shower is just anything under 21c, ice-water is retarded.

I would tell you that I am saving it for marriage, but in fact I am saving it for my anime wife who god will give me in heaven. I have not masturbated in 213 days and I have turned down sex 8 times.

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god i miss him so much bros

I cried a shitton when he died
He went from having streams often to being homeless then killing himself in a shockingly short period of time, always makes me feel.

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a ton of people larp the lonely smart guy, but there are legitimately a few people in our gene pool who are too smart to integrate with our society

he was one. poor guy

>killing himself
you know full well he was taken out by GITD cia niggers

You can drink the shower water when you're thirsty in the shower. From the shower head not the floor or your body.

You are my inspiration user.

>t. Day 43 of nofap and noporn

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They just feel good desu. Ostensibly they'd suck, but right after a nice tough lifting/boxing/running sesh, it feels amazing to hop in the sauna and then give your homeostasis a run for it's money in a nice chill shower

ive been doing them for about 6 months
but i have also complemented it with this idea of living with the cold and not tryinf to run from it (for the most part)

i try to not wear anything over my t shirts (regarding jackets or sweaters), when i get home i get only on my shorts and i sleep with just a very small blanket (but might switch to sleeping only with boxers)

i have not gotten sick at all, my skin doesnt feel dry after i take a bath, and i get to live peacefully with the cold
instead of running from it, might sound kinda autistic but i like it

the one thing that i've heard that is kinda lame about them is that

if your goal is to build muscle then cold showers are not recommended after a workout, you should wait one hour after your workout

the reasoning for this is that cold showers are good for fighting inflammation

and we need a little bit of inflammation to signal the body to start building muscle

so thats the only real negative, and sometimes it does get kinda anoying having to wait one hour

Jow Forums and Jow Forums fucking murdered the guy, no two ways about it. They fed his schizophrenic delusions until he reached a critical point and couldn't deal with all the paranoia and fear anymore so he took his own life instead. To go on a schizoid's livestreams and start telling the shit like "The CIA niggers are raping you mother Terry!" is fucking low, and to claim you're his "fan" after that shit is just deplorable. That whole saga was like something you'd see teenage girls doing to a distraught user on tumblr, just pure subhuman cruelty and selfishness.

Tiny weenie

>doesnt improve self
>doesnt date chicks on bumble tinder etc
>cries about it

kill yourself then loser

In the last 2 years I had only one warm shower. Not worth. Also benefits from cold showers:

>better skin
>lower body fat
>better metabolism
>better hair
>increased resistance to cold
>better inmune system
>more willpower
>faster recovery from workouts
>increased testosterone
>more focused (breath slow in the cold shower)

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Yep. Never forget what website you're on.

Completely unrelated to why he killed himself

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Yeah I know, just had to get that out there.

they're great at crashing your cns system with no survivors

I did this one day and ended up trembling so badly for an hour after it that I had to go in and take a warm shower to fix whatever the fuck it did to me

Biggest meme never do it

ITT: Little bitch bois who can't handle a bit of cold water.

In any case, there are some claims that cold showers help with shit like depression, improved immunity, increase testosterone, but studies have pretty much definitively proven that they're bullshit.

That being said, I personally prefer taking cold showers because I still get temporary benefits. After an ice cold shower I feel clear headed and energized. I also have more motivation because let's face it, ice showers are not enjoyable but you still put yourself through them by force of will. I feel like those moments of self discipline help improve my discipline in other places.

It also helps me tolerate the cold better and sleep better at night.

i do that. its because hot water makes me dizzy though

Why are you asking as if that is some mysterious and painful thing. Just try it, faggot.

wimp detected

it does energize you in the morning and does provide you with a good feeling since you actually need a bit of courage to do it.
Also it does burn fat since it activates the brown celles in your body

Will also make you more ressitant to diseases since your body will produce immune cells

if you need sauce, just google

Same

Further than you can imagine.

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>they spike your cortisol and adrenaline
why the fuck would I want that?
>but brown fat
what is this meme

im gonna need a source on this

maybe google brown fat you brainlet

based parkinson's poster

At the end of my shower I give myself a good 30 seconds or so of cold water. Closes up the pores. I eat healthy and have good hygiene but even at 30 I get pretty nasty bacne. Only on the back, haven’t got any on my face in almost a decade. Any of you guys know any tricks for that? I use a Shea and cocoa body wash because I heard it helps and also one of those rough foot scrubs on my back

Prep for getting in the water during Grouck events.

I only use cold water on my hair, had a lot of dandurf due to hot showers, no I've been using cold water for hair for about 3 weeks now. My hair got a lot better.

haha

Proves discipline, mostly. The rest is placebo.

I don't know what they provide but I feel really warm and comfy afterwards. Going to bed after a 5 minute cold shower is bliss.

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Pretty much. The only reason why dermatologists warn people against hot showers is that it drys out the skin, and its only overly hot showers. If your skin is bright pink when you get out and you have really dry skin turn it down a bit mate.

considering water has estrogen from birth control and tons of other shit in it, cold water closes your pores and stops you from absorbing nearly as much of it. You also wont spend as long in the shower if its not comfy and warm.

Plus its proven to raise test and help with depression since the extreme cold causes blood to circulate deeper in your body and away from your skin, so it kinda defrags everything.

>feels really good afterwards

This is mental health user

>there are people on Jow Forums who actually believe this

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youtu.be/3wFnbKqo4FQ

At around 6.45 he talks about how to get rid of bacne :)

based haha responder

cold actually inhibits recovery from workouts.

then why I recover faster after a cold showa

you don't user

but I feel rested and ready

xplpain

I do a quick 30-60 seconds of a cold shower after a warm/hot shower to wake up and to reduce body heat so I'm not still sweating and nullifying the purpose of the shower. Also helps wakes me up after relaxing in the shower.

>cold actually inhibits recovery from workouts.

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Ice baths help your body combat doms by making it easier for your body to break down lactic acid build up, so it would follow logically that a cold shower would also work and also that you're retarded.

Have a warm shower, get clean, then turn the cold on and make sure every where gets into contact with the cold water. No more than a minute.

It'll boost your immune system, your sperm count and it'll help with doms. Your skin will look better because you're closing your pores after cleaning.

Lactic acid is good for hypertropy

does anyone have any experience of cold showers affect on acne? does cold showers help get rid of acne?

stop being a sperg and it won't spike your cortisol and whatnot so much. relax your shoulders and breath like a non-fag

>Lactic acid is good for hypertropy

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this nigger knows his shit

I will fucking kill you

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192418/

Sure thing man
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>seeing penises everywhere
this is what Jow Forums does to your brain.

larry is the only nigger i tolerate

You realize Russians, Northern Euros, and East Asians have done cold water for thousands of years? It’s good for you I promise you’re not going to get a heart attack from a cold shower

The biggest benefit I've experienced is purely mental.

Cold showers present an opportunity to voluntarily put yourself into an uncomfortable situation. We face uncomfortable situations every day, and sometimes we take the "easy way out" instead of confronting the discomfort.

Voluntarily putting yourself into uncomfortable situations and developing the discipline to make yourself to stay in the cold - overcoming and conquering discomfort - will help you deal with anxiety in real life. When you face discomfort or feelings of anxiety, fear, or nervousness, your body will be set on auto-pilot to face whatever is the source of those feelings so that it can overcome them.

Thanks user

No they haven't. People have been using warm/hot water since the development of readily available water-tight containers. They used to warm up the water using fire.

You've heard of fire, right user?

I wanna dock that penis

Fucking loser

I can kill a man in 2 seconds

"Proven"

Any substantial evidence , there is probably studies that show effects either way

Cortisol leveled up

Yes they have. Dunno why you’re disagreeing with so much a common fact. The luxury of warm showers is the deviation from the norm. Cold water used for bathing is most of our history man.

Literally hahja

I’m trying to help you here... On my team we do post workout ice baths during our intense practices. I’ve done this for EVERY sport I’ve played. Football, basketball, track n field.

If cold water is bad for you the entire collegiate and Olympic athletic community is totally wrong.

I’m telling you as a college athlete that cold/ice water therapy is incredibly beneficial for high intensity training

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An interesting thing to consider.

>doesn't do jack shit
>feel really good afterwards