ICE BATHS

[Leo Sayer 3,592]

Anyone ever done one , what did you get out of it and what’s the benefits ? One of our customers come in this morning and tellsl me he hed  just run 10k and had an ice bath and then goes to work, said he feels great all day off it. I started to read the wym hoff book a while ago but ventured off reading another book and never got past the first chapter. Just wondering what the crack is with them . 

[oxo 525]

Not ice baths but cold showers, seems to give you a bit of a buzz, wake's you up for sure. Obviously the shower is colder in the winter so it's not a set temperature thing.

[Daniel cain 47,917]

9 minutes ago, Leo Sayer said:

Anyone ever done one , what did you get out of it and what’s the benefits ? One of our customers come in this morning and tellsl me he hed  just run 10k and had an ice bath and then goes to work, said he feels great all day off it. I started to read the wym hoff book a while ago but ventured off reading another book and never got past the first chapter. Just wondering what the crack is with them . 

Funny fella that wym Hoff....Borr on here does ABIT of wild swimming etc...I see loads on face ache and instabum,singing about the benefits of it,along with the bare foot walking(grounding),just had a toolbox talk on site this week,about mens health charities offering ice baths,wild swimming etc...big thing on the sites these days.... problem is,every cnuts suicidal because of the over the top health and safety nonsense,they expect you to adhere too lol...the old,let's create a problem...then offer them a solution at a cost

Everyone's different,what works for one,may not for someone else..I used to find,that when I was out regularly paddling my play boats, mountain biking/moto x and working my dogs,I was at my happiest...don't do it for me anymore tbh...lost my mojo... same with fishing...rather watch my kids catching, than taking part myself

[iworkwhippets 13,118]

Yes works fer me, couple mornings per week, i awaken like an old man in his 80s,  so I set the shower to cold, stand looking at the cold water belching out fer a few seconds then just dive on, the shock to my system stirs any dormant organs,  out I come dry off,  and I feel like an old man in his 80s,  eh that's my crack on it , sorry craic eh,       eh,   can ya hear me mother

[Pardus 1,546]

Never done an ice bath but done a cold shower in the evening, it left me feeling the most relaxed I've ever felt in my life, they're meant to be great for sleep.

[Aled 552]

Done a cold plunge pool, and it does feel good after coming out. It could have its benefits, if we have swollen knees or heavy bruising we use ice packs to reduce swelling. 

[WataWalloper 2,919]

Feels good after but Fcuking brutal at time haha thinking it starting to do a bit wild swimming this year, farmer I do bits an bats for his wife does it in local lake, every morning, all through the winter aswell haha was telling me few month ago about them down smashing ice in mornings to get in haha might give it a bash an see how it goes 

[Leo Sayer 3,592]

43 minutes ago, WataWalloper said:

Feels good after but Fcuking brutal at time haha thinking it starting to do a bit wild swimming this year, farmer I do bits an bats for his wife does it in local lake, every morning, all through the winter aswell haha was telling me few month ago about them down smashing ice in mornings to get in haha might give it a bash an see how it goes 

Fook that a tub on the decking sounds easier lol 

[WataWalloper 2,919]

Just now, Leo Sayer said:

Fook that a tub on the decking sounds easier lol 

I think swimming be easier to be fair, take ye mind off it, I tried it in a tub an it was brutal, but heating up after it was awsome and even after the workout it wasn’t like a normal workout that takes it out ye

[mel b 3,357]

When I'm staying at my woodland for a few days , I jump in the stream after I've been grafting all day .  The water is straight off the top of the mountain , so is only just above freezing , even in the summer . It feels great when I get out , and the pain stops.   I get an instant headache when my balls hit the ice cold water.

[Leo Sayer 3,592]

4 minutes ago, WataWalloper said:

I think swimming be easier to be fair, take ye mind off it, I tried it in a tub an it was brutal, but heating up after it was awsome and even after the workout it wasn’t like a normal workout that takes it out ye

Am tight , so am thinking green wheelie bin and ice from asda lol 

[WataWalloper 2,919]

Just now, Leo Sayer said:

Am tight , so am thinking green wheelie bin and ice from asda lol 

My mate made one for 35 quid, used an old ibc fitted an only freezer lid an it’s got an pipe flowing in an one out so it’s moving water, but he started off in wheelie bin then an old chest freezer them made his own flowing one haha I’ll get pics next time I’m at his haha but he is a tramp like me haha

[iworkwhippets 13,118]

2 minutes ago, mel b said:

When I'm staying at my woodland for a few days , I jump in the stream after I've been grafting all day .  The water is straight off the top of the mountain , so is only just above freezing , even in the summer . It feels great when I get out , and the pain stops.   I get an instant headache when my balls hit the ice cold water.

Your balls hit the ice cold water you get a headache, perhaps that's were ya brains are, in ya .balls 

[mel b 3,357]

2 hours ago, iworkwhippets said:

Your balls hit the ice cold water you get a headache, perhaps that's were ya brains are, in ya .balls 

It's not the first time someone has said that Keith .

[Igz 1,603]

Great for recovery when your body's been working hard but imagine it also has other benefits . They do make you feel good. I'm a plunge pool person after a sauna now and again but my son's a footballer and Ice baths do him world of good. they do him the world of good. They also a say a couple of saunas a week help with prevention of Alzheimer's. Apparently but just what I've read somewhere