I Took an ICE BATH Everyday for a Week

Video 20 of asking: Next challenge: run a full marathon 🏃‍♂️

I’ve been doing ice baths 5 days a week for the last 2-3 months . And I find myself like doing it in the morning more because I feel fresh and more energetic for the day. Weird how people can have opposite affects. Great video!

The Legend is back! Another brilliant video. Keep up the excellent content, brother. Following you from Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

I just came across your channel and love the content. I am just about to start the cold water therapy and this vid (made 8hrs ago) has helped me to know what to do. I will watch most (if not all) your vids over Christmas ⛄. Thanks 🙏👍.

"but you gotta focus" frase gets me every time, doesn't matter how many videos i watch

I started wim hoff method almost 10 years ago. Most bang per input for me was the first step. As follows: everytime you shower, in the middle of the shower you turn to all the way cold and do that for 1minute while breathing deep and slow. Then you can go warm again. After this i rarely got sick and havent felt cold since (i felt cold all the time, everywhere before) Great Vid 🤙

awesome! another thing i think is interesting is that the body wants to adapt, so maybe it would be beneficial like you said to not do ice baths too often, to maximize the benefits. otherwise its just adapting to something unfun like cold water. or to switch from warm to cold water, or cold to warm water, idk and combining the ice bath with the wim hof method for cold weather tolerance is something that people have had good results with! that pre-workout formula is pretty interesting, i'd like to see more experimental data on that from people :D I myself have done a few cold showers that help wake up my mind when im feeling down and starting to get depressed, and same with the wim hof breathing method, but i can find it really overwhelming at times because i get dizzy from the breathing, and the tingling sensation is a bit overwhelming, but afterwards after my body calms down i always feel really refreshed and mentally centered, and calmer. And combining that with red light therapy would probly be great too! combining all the healthy ideas into a schedule that works out well I know bryan johnson is sorta doing that with his extensive anti-aging routine, as well and combining that with things like the "knees over toes guy's exercises for longevity could only lead to more positive results, i think. there's also this exercise https://youtu.be/0euDDJu6GnQ?list=PLXbIyui8bKyWkYqZFj5FWJ9-tiQwoDc2- for longevity and endurance/stamina, and altho im mostly a non-weight exerciser myself, i respect the weight lifting too anywawy im bored so i typed all this stuff out here, haha

most research I've seen described is 'you only need about 11 minutes a WEEK..." not 5 minutes a day.

After a very long run, a 20 minute ice bath followed by elevating your legs for 20 minutes (ideally while wearing compression pants) can reduce recovery by a full day. I understand that a post workout ice bath may reduce hypertrophy, but you have to consider what is your goal. When I was doing this it was strictly for run recovery and it worked out great. It also helped me cool down and stop the muscle damage quicker after the workout and led to me feeling back to normal about an hour or so after the run. It also allowed me to have a light run the next day which also helped me to avoid a lot of soreness. In addition; since your body is very overheated after a long run, the ice bath is only uncomfortable for the first minute and after that is actually enjoyable.

Solid focus dude 🤘. I've also been getting ice baths recently especially when injured or on rest days and one thing to note is that the cold water coming out of the tap will be variable depending on the season and where you live. Here in eastern Canada for e.g. in summer I would make ice by filling 6 x 6L plastic containers in a chest freezer and this brought the water to 12C/53F. In Fall this went down to 8.5C/47F. Rn in winter the water coming out of the tap is 5C so no ice is actually needed as the ideal range is 10C-15C for the therapeutic benefits. This is probably why it felt so much colder when you tried it 🥶

No BS, i was wondering if you had an ice bath video yesterday. Even had an internak discussion with myself that it was probably too expensive of a video 😂

Cold adaptation is definitely a real thing. In the polar vortex winters in MI I spent so much time outside shoveling snow that by the end of it I was out there in a t-shirt and gloves at 10F and feeling comfy.

Don't know if you'll read this comment but after resistance training MPS (muscle protein synthesis) is elevated anywhere from 48-72hours so as ice baths dull MPS if you take an ice bath within 72 hours of workouts you will actually decrease muscle hypertrophy

But you gotta focusssssssssss. Loved that edit!

Also i wanted to say thats very interesting about the affect the ice bath has on muscle growth and how long you have to wait is insane

Dude we look and speak so alike it’s blowing my mind, a friend sent me your vid doing the splits years ago and I was like ok cool it’s me but in better shape, but now this one popping up a year into my personal ice bath journey, I had to reach out. We should vid chat if you’re down, I’ve never seen a doppleganger I actually believed like this - it’s like watching a video of myself if I was more jacked 😂

I've watched you for over a year now, your arms definitely put on some muscle dude

I think you should have researched the Soberg principle when it comes to cold water immersion. That would be a great place to start.

Nice video man, as always :)

In my experience, the biggest factor for HRV is stress. Cold exposure is stressful. I think it would be better to be shortening the cold sessions to just 2-3 min and only doing them a few times/week. I think the workouts + ice baths were increasing your stress and fatigue on your body. I workout MWF, T/R are my rest days and thats when I sauna and cold shower. My HRV is typically in the 60s pretty consistently. That way you don't have to deal with the pro/con of ice baths in relation to a workout and you aren't over stressing your body. There is also an issue with getting too adapted to the cold which takes away from some of its benefits.