Who likes cold showers?

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I've been taking them every day for nearly 2 years. The invigorating feeling of icy water running across your skin is a nice sensation to experience, and there are supposedly health benefits as well.

^^^ you're a better man than I. only when it is very hot weather can I stand being in a cold shower.

Not me. I don't like a cold water touch.

the good thing about cold showers for us who battle the bulge, is that they active the brown fat which burns off excess calories, IOW cold showers raise resting metabolism.

nonononono

Cold and me don't get along. Then again, hot and me don't get along either. Any ambient outdoor temperature that is higher than 18°C and lower than 10°C is noooo. That said, if I've spent a day in the heat, I can enjoy cold temperatures and vice versa. But never a cold shower.

That is true. I tried taking cold showers for awhile. I couldn't do it. Very unpleasant.

It takes some balls to enter it at first, but there is this theory that if you expose yourself to a brief but very intense shock, you will feel much more relaxed and happy for the rest of your day. And the science backs this up. It's kinda like your body is telling you "wohoo you survived and all other worries are tiny tiny problems now!' so you walk around with a banana on your face. It is like with Auschwitz survivors they all lived to around 100 years old with perfect health because they went through a brief period of shock. What does not kill you, makes you stronger.

Below your head, on the physical level your blood circulation works perfect, all your tissues are properly nourished and long term you rip off some health benefits. If you think about this, many of our great- or even grandparents did not have warm water and for the entire human evolution we used to interact with water that felt cold. When I see my girlfriend pour a boiling hot bath and then soak in it for hours and then seek more comforting stimuli, pleasure and laziness - I am so glad to take a quick cold shower after the gym and feel energetic all day

Nope...can't stand them.

good for u . personally, as long as "my body" can't stand them , then it's "for sure" not healthy for me. . when i am in a cold shower , i can feel my body begging me "plz i am not comfortable! get me out of here". one should simply listen to their "own" body. yep as simple as that. i don't care what people say. i am not sure if in general one should avoid them if they have high blood pressure issues.

I do. I prefer cold showers to warm showers.

Cold showers are awful and painful. My entire body tenses up which worsens my pain that I am in and the shock is anything but pleasurable. My body becomes an anxious jittery mess. Yes it wakes me up but so do warm showers.

love your body and avoid sustained cold showers, an occasional gentle cool wash [in hot weather] is tolerable.

This is especially true in Texas where summer time temperatures can reach 100 F.

I've tried a cold shower this morning. I was wound up and ready to motor after that.

I don't like showers at all (unless I'm actually dirty; dirty as in dirt). Wastes water.

Animals can smell you coming if you're squeaky clean too.

Cold showers remind me of an even colder winter with no central heating or gas.

I really don't like cold showers.