That’s hard to try as I’m living in Texas 😄 One day I will!
Mostly I freeze the cheapo half liter water bottles. Takes about 25-35 of them to cool down a 70 gallon tub. Alternative is to buy ice, 7 bags of 8lbs will usually do.
That’s awesome man. I’m about 2 months in, past month I’ve been doing it min 5 days a week.
After about 10-12 minutes the meditative state deepened significantly for me. After that it’s hard to say, as I wasn’t thinking that much 😄
I find that my tolerance for time goes up a lot at the higher temperatures. Been playing with that as I’m also looking at the ice bath as an alternative way to meditate.
I’ve been taking daily ice baths for about 4 weeks now. Usually I do 8-10 mins. For this one:
- I wore a hat
- kept my hands in the water for only about 5 mins, outside for the rest
- lifted feet out after about 10 mins (heels stayed in)
- deep relaxation kicked in after 10 minutes, felt like I could stay in forever. Skin was just comfortably numb. My breathing slowed down a lot, e.g. after the full exhale I would “sit” for 20 seconds before beginning to inhale again.
- I never shivered, but decided to get out after moving my fingers and feeling strong tingling in my forearm muscles.
- I shivered a lot after getting out, hot shower really helped.
Yeah agreed the closer you get to 32 it gets almost exponentially harder
Any ice bathers on Nostr? I’m curious about people’s experience with longer plunges. I did 30 minutes in 50 degrees (10C) a few days ago and found it to be deeply meditative. Took me a small hour to warm up after.
Just found a version of it here https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37bcy7
Top, indeed! For long-time fans I’d also recommend the unplugged rehearsal session.
I use Damus on my phone… does iris have an app?
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