Cold shower: an extraordinary vitality
It's a shock and you're thinking that we get sick. In reality it is a millenary practice spread in many cultures of which science is beginning to discover and study the innumerable benefits.
This practice is useful for rebalancing the body's energy circulation, removing stagnations. To enjoy its benefits, you do not necessarily have to practice Yoga.
My teacher, Christian Prestia, taught me how to teach it, and as a good student, curious and hungry for knowledge of what I am, I immediately wanted to experience its benefits. If I succeeded, everyone can do it.
From this ancient millennial practice since the days of the ancient Romans (frigidarium), to the Scottish shower, we have arrived to the day cryotherapy, with rooms cooled with liquid nitrogen up to -30, -40 degrees where to stay 2-4 minutes. Today all professional athletes use this practice.
For a few years now he has been talking more and more about him thanks to a pioneer in this field: Vim Hof (The Iceman), who became famous for having recorded 21 cold resistance records going well beyond what was believed possible for human physiology: a swim of 120 meters in apnea under the ice, a half marathon in the snow above the Arctic polar circle at -20 in barefoot shorts and an immersion in the ice for 1 hour and 52 minutes.
The scientific community has begun to study and analyze changes in the physiology of those exposed to the cold. The most important aspect of this training in the cold, because it is a type of training, is that it improves the body's ability to thermoregulate and the immune response.
The main benefits of this practice are:
• Increase of willpower and self-discipline;
• Improvement of the circulatory system;
• Improvement of the lymphatic system;
• Increase in thermogenesis and peripheral circulation (hands and feet);
• Activation of metabolism with consequent release of brown fat as an energetic form and reduction of white fat;
• Cell repair and increased immune system performance (with increased white blood cells, especially lymphocytes and monocytes);
• Acceleration of recovery time after intense training and attenuation of muscle and joint pain and inflammation;
• Increased resistance to stress, energy and production of endogenous antioxidants (glutathione);
• Production of noradrenaline which relieves depression and anxiety;
• Increase in hormone production and fertility;
• Energizing in the morning and relaxing before going to sleep;
According to Yoga it is better to start first by the genial ones, then move on to the lower limbs and finally to the whole torso.
I know that the first step is the most difficult, but once done, you will discover a vitality never before experienced!
Just do it!
As Jerzu Gregorek said, Easy Choise, Hard Life. Hard Choise, Easy Life.