Redpill me on cold showers

go hot, then cold for a few minutes at the end and it'll help your skin. that's pretty much it.

fantastic for hair and skin and nothing else

so much anger

Bacne noticeably improved from cold showers, can confirm.

They still suck though

let's see the original literature

It's good on your scalp.

I like it for my skin and hair, which gets itchy and greasy respectively when I don't do it. I still take hot showers in cold weather because I run, Nordic ski, do races on snow shoes, and just generally exercise outdoors year round in a city that gets cold and snowy. My alternative to that is finishing my runs at my gym so I can warm up in the sauna or steam room, then lift, then take a cold shower then go home. You can make it work under a lot of circumstances.

My basement has no sump pump, so enough rain and my hot water heater gets knocked out from flooding. During a rainy period I can go weeks without hot water. At first I showered at work or at my folks house. But eventually I taught myself the discipline of cold showers so I could shower every day without being a burden on others.

The benefits of cold showers is that they save you money on your gas bill, they wake you up if you're feeling tired, and you gain discipline.

I have noticed no other benefits than these.

cold showers when you're hot, hot showers when you're cold. cmon senpai.

Studies show it can help immune system

Well for me they completely clear away my chronic dandruff and seborhoic dermatitis after a few days. I no longer go to bed/work sweating. I just feel so much more comfortable for hours afterwards. My hair and skin is better. And yeh....fuck hot showers. For me they cause a whole host of problems so cold all the way.

They can help you get used to being uncomfortable which in turn can help you with things you don't feel comfortable doing, public speaking perhaps.

They wake you up because they aren't comfy. Hot showers are comfy and make you lazy. Cold showers give you a little edge for the rest of the day. I only take cold showers, but I doubt they have any medical effect.

Meme. Gave me bronchitis. Absolutely no positive effect other than feeling like a good lil' boy that does his chores.

>taking cold showers
>not taking hot showers and then turning it to cold the last 2 minutes

I don't feel clean unless I scrub my body in hot water but I'm now addicted to the feeling of a nice cold shower

You think Spartans needed bitch boy warm cozy water? They cleansed themselves with the vigor of a freezing cold river. Why do people get mad about this? Because they realize they're weak-willed and will never make it without their babby comforts

been doing cold showers for a few months. on a whim.
i like it now. feels better during and after. you certainly get used to it.
i am curious about the winter though, then it'll get really really cold.

I just do hot/warm showers, and then finish off the last 15-30 seconds or so with some semi-cold action.

I still stay warm post-shower with this method

Notice how most replies will devolve to "oh so ur a little bitch huh" and give no rationale besides not being less manly and how important it is because our ancestors did it etc etc and didn't have showers.

Should be enough to set off your vape alarm or whatever

It's actually so sad. I feel like an absolute idiot for being tricked by the memeing and suffering from the cold shower shit. But at least it wasn't as bad as being tricked by memes into foodless GOMAD and dropping out of university, eh?

I had to shower with cold water for 15 days, the only benefit i had from taking cold showers (mainly because there wasnt hot water avaliable) was:
>Less time spent showering
>Felt more awake
>The best thing about cold showers were when I finished.

The cons were:
>Bad mood for the rest of the morning
>Didn't wash armpits, hair, legs and ass properly
>Sneezing all the time during the shower
>All my neighbors heard me shouting everytime my skin touched the cold stream

Pros were:
You've finally achieved something after several years of being a complete loser, even if it was an almost negligble task

Cons were:
You became a broscience faggot

if you lift, and you do cardio.
why would you do this shit?
theres no benfits, cold showers are for cucks that dont lift haewy things multiple times or do anorobic activity

taking them for over 3 months, my eczema improved significantly. and thats probably it. dont feeling alpha or anything.

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>Hot water knob? Haven't touched it in months. I'm actually currently going through the process of having it uninstalled from my plumbing, they should be coming out sometime next week. I had to list a reason(s) on the work order as to why I am requesting my hot water knob to be removed and discarded. Would you can to hear the reasons? Well stay tuned friend. 2 reasons:

>1. Discipline
>2. Mental toughness

>My property manager was initially questioning my reasons, but I explained to her that by taking cold showers I am actually able to develop discipline and mental toughness. After a long and heated (note that I needn't anything heated, especially my water) debate, I was able to convince her to put the work order in. Now I'm living a great life, warm water free. I even started forcing my gf to take cold showers with me. I refuse to date an inferior female, and I explained to her that if she can't learn to accept and love cold showers as I have then we really have no business being together anyways.

You're doing them wrong. Yes it's possible.

If you're shouting during the showers it means you're just torturing yourself.

The idea is to find the calm through suffering focusing on your breathing. Slow controlled breaths through out.

There's a bunch of non bro science research on the benefits of cold shock therapy as there is heat shock therapy.

Google Dr. Rhonda Patrick. She does a nice round up of the available research

>have a single knob that automatically mixes the streams
>even all the way blue is still cut with warm water

save me

>you're talking cold showers wrong

fpbp

I am thouroughly confused. Is this bait? Or honest autism.

it's a meme you dip

The only benefits are
>Wakes you up more
>better for people with dry skin

Potential pitfalls are people wanting to just get in and out rather than stay in the cold and do a proper job of cleaning themselves. That's why I prefer cool-tepid showers to cold ones.

european skeleton athlete suggested me to shower cold and summed up the benefits, showering cold since a month now and already can't stand the warm water anymore, it feels like somebody is pissing on me (which might turn on some guys here)

but i guess these could be useful:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_bath_therapy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_bath#Benefits

I went through a period of taking cold showers. Honestly, I don't regret going back to hot showers. It didn't make me feel any better or visibly improve anything. It just made me hate mornings more than I already do.

If nothing else, they teach you breath control. But tons of health benefits. One thing I noticed personally is that they make me aware of how good I have it where it's a CHOICE to take a cold shower. In prison we didn't control anything, but I still take cold showers every now and then to remind me of what a little bitch i can become at a moment's notice. Nobody can be harder on you than yourself so don't treat your body like a delicate little flower.

Man up. Be uncomfortable. Its why people hate lifting. It's why people hate dieting. Their body has literally been conditioned to eat any time there's a little rumbly in the tumbly. For the last year or so i fast a couple times a month, just so I know if I'm ever homeless again I can survive on my mental willpower for a few days. Now i only eat when im hungry and I feel more in tune with my body. On slow days I might just eat some eggs and rice, and other days I can exceed 4k calories, but I listen to my body and the results speak for themselves.

Cold shower. Get hungry. Realize you have it too good. Embrace the uncomfortable and use it as fuel

Sorry for the rant.

That just sounds like masochism desu.

>im 16 and just watched fight club

There is ONE important thing about COLD showers:
They don't clean shit off your body as much as hot showers.
Most bodybuilders, athletes take hot showers then bathe in cold water.
YOU're welcome

> (You)
>That just sounds like masochism desu.

Mental toughness amigo.. just push yourself a little more and you'll be amazed at the things most people "can't live without". When I'm uncomfortable I stop, but being able to push through uncomfortable is the difference between 1st and 2nd place, CEO vs manager, taking that risk of rejection or fapping to tranny porn every Friday night like >38537526.

I'm 18 and watch fight club 3 times a day back to back to back in an icebath, all underwater on a single breath. All natty. Fight me.

Its harder to cry in a colder and it kinda wakes me up.

It's quicker and not hard at all. Just get in, scrub, get out.

Now, in the winter...

>amigo
>autism detected

Slow it down, amiga.

t. Omega male who couldn't pay the heating bill for hot water

they feel good, that's it really. it also has to be cold outside for it to have any effect. a cold shower in summer here is probably more normal than a hot shower. you aren't some epic samurai leet lord doing it and the idea of bragging about being tough because you subject yourself to cold water is pretty cringeworthy.

I save money on gas, time (my showers went from 15min to 2) and water.
They feel better also.
I do not care that much about the (self reported ) health benefits.