You will start with breathing exercises and meditation, and will gradually expose your body to low temperatures by taking cold showers. Within weeks you will feel more energetic, less stressed and better rested.
Fifteen to thirty seconds of cold water on the extremities — hands and feet — first, then the torso.
Do not hyperventilate while immersed. Slow, calm breath is the whole practice in the cold.
Over days and weeks, one to two minutes of fully cold water.
Ice bath or cold water immersion only after shower habituation.
The breath and the cold are two pillars, never the same moment. The breathing rounds are completed on dry land and followed by a rest. In the water you breathe slowly, steadily, through the shock — that is the entire skill, and it is the one that changes your life outside the water too.
Not a hot shower straight away. Movement — the horse stance, walking, gentle squats — lets the body rewarm from the inside. The Warming Up page has five ways.
Cold exposure recruits brown adipose tissue — the fat that burns to make heat — and over weeks the body becomes better at making its own warmth. The 2014 twin study suggested brown fat is not the whole mechanism; the Brown Fat page explains what it is and what it is not.
We have taken our decades of experience with the cold and married it with the absolute best in engineering to create the finest hardware for your home.
A cold shower a day keeps the doctor away.Wim Hof