How Cold are Cold Showers?

I would assume that daily cold showers are not undertaken for their own sake, but only on days and times when the mind is racing with tempting thoughts, fantasies, and delusional thinking even and when your groin area has become engaged and stimulated and the blood vessels around the testes painfully inflamed. When bringing such symptoms into the cold shower, whatever is cold enough to relieve these symptoms, probably requiring that you stay under the shower for some length of time (so it cannot be too freezing), will be a cold enough temperature for you. An ice pack, always covered by some cloth, and held to either the head or scrotum area (wherever the pain is) while lying down also helps some folks. Sometimes taking a Tylenol or aspirin or whatever your medical situation permits for these products (per your physician), helps the blood flow better, too.

 

My cold showers are on the coldest setting. If one can swim in an ice lake, why not stand 5 minutes under the coldest shower? But that's my opinion.

If it really is too cold, just crank the heat up a tiny little bit. It needs to be uncomfortable

My tip if you can't stand it: I first take a hot shower (very short) to wash and stuff, then I step out, turn it to cold, do pushups, then immediately step in the shower. This technique helps a lot! Good luck

 

The temperature of anyone's cold water will depend on the climate, the season of the year, etc. It's summertime here in Texas. I've just taken the temperature of the "cold" water at my kitchen sink with a fever thermometer. It's 96.2° F (35.7° C). It will be warmer later in the summer. It's a good thing that I don't depend on cold showers to control my urges.

 

why try to make cold showers comfortable? cold showers are supposed to be cold, no techniques no trying to take short cuts, no hot water then cold. plain and simple cold. lets stop trying to corrupt the purpose of cold showers. my cold showers i take are the coldest as soon as i step in and wash my self with soap and shampoo untill i get out, it can sometimes take 10 minutes. stop looking for short cuts bud.

 

Ive been taking cold showers for the past two months and i cant even remember what a warm shower feels like anymore!

 

My pipes are exposed. My "cold" showers are cool at best. It sucks.

 

I've started taking cold showers regularly and I've been getting colder and colder incrementally. That's what works for me. It's never hot enough to be comfortable but not so cold that it hurts. I think getting your body acclimated to the colder temps is a good thing, especially if you're still feeling a little bit reserved about it.

 

I've started taking cold showers about 13 months ago. Water's temperature ranges from 10 C to about 15 C (during summer). After a year of taking cold showers the water is really never cold enough (recently I bathed in a mountain lake - about 2-3C and still very comfortable). To be honest I can't stand warm/hot water anymore (never liked hot water though) just because it makes me feel like I'm choking. Cold water purges my mind and body of any petty issues.

 

I've taken cold showers now for the last 18 days to varying temperatures and lengths underneath the shower. It takes some getting used to, particularly for the first few seconds - I still hate that chill factor, but beyond that my hair and skin feel great, I'm much more alert and focused.

 

Yup, cold showers are supposed to shock your body, not chill your body ^^

 

Why?

 

I hate cold showers. Since I can manage my urges without them, I gladly do.

I sometimes visit a Korean spa in Dallas. It has a cold plunge pool in the same large room with the hot, hotter, and hottest pools. All have large digital thermometers. I can barely stand the cold pool when it's 67° F (19.4° C) but no colder. It's usually around 64° F (17.8° C). Keep in mind that this is for immersion, not just a shower. Brrr!

 

Middle of summer in Ohio, if that thermometer is trustworthy my cold showers are 72-ish. Not bad.

I did full cold from the start. One thing I did early on was to do 20 push-ups just before jumping in, the cold water is almost nice when you're overheated.

 

Let me check the cold temp of the resident water. Thermometer reads ambient temp 80*

Cup of ice water to lower its reading. It's now reading 50.

Out of the ice water, it's going back up. Currently at 70... I will go to the kitchen sink and place thermometer under the full cold running water.

The California desert summers will make a difference in defining "a cold shower".

Ambient temperature is currently reading back to 80.

Let's see how cold is right now at 8:50 pm

Placing the thermometer in my clinched fist raising the temp of the meter to almost 100.

We will be able to see the needle move downward...it went down to a sliver above 80 then increased to 90 and I couldn't get it to go any lower.

Doesn't seem like cold is cold enough. Let me go get a cup of beginning shower water. I mean within the first few minutes of turning it on. Same results... 80 then goes up to 90 and stays there.

Ok... I'm still not going to turn ANY of hot water knob.

 

I've just come to that conclusion, here's a video which might provide some good reasoning behind that logic, i'm a bit busy as of now ^^

 

thank you!

 

Now that was informative. What would by wife think is going on in the shower if I did the heavy breathing and the yelling the energetic personality.

 

I'm going to be attempting to get lower and lower temperatures incrementally. Easing in.