Great story, Laura!! So love hearing about your northern adventures. I have done three cold plunges. Two with friends and one with a group of earnest teenagers who wanted to see how many “dippers” they could get to come out a cold February day. I was counting the seconds until I could get out. For whatever reason, my friends are no longer interested in doing the cold water plunges so I don’t even have to feel like I should. They think it helped get over the pandemic blues. My son, Mitchell, Mies’s cousin, is a regular, almost daily dipper. He sees many benefits. Good for them:)
How long were you in? Did you feel like it benefitted you in any way to do it? I'm intrigued, like I said, but not enough so yet to actually do the thing. LOL. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I stayed in for three minutes each time. Rivers in Idaho are fed by ice melt so they are cold. I did not feel like I got any benefit but I did not do the research in to the breathing that the guru, Wim Hoff, recommends:)
Great story, Laura!! So love hearing about your northern adventures. I have done three cold plunges. Two with friends and one with a group of earnest teenagers who wanted to see how many “dippers” they could get to come out a cold February day. I was counting the seconds until I could get out. For whatever reason, my friends are no longer interested in doing the cold water plunges so I don’t even have to feel like I should. They think it helped get over the pandemic blues. My son, Mitchell, Mies’s cousin, is a regular, almost daily dipper. He sees many benefits. Good for them:)
How long were you in? Did you feel like it benefitted you in any way to do it? I'm intrigued, like I said, but not enough so yet to actually do the thing. LOL. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I stayed in for three minutes each time. Rivers in Idaho are fed by ice melt so they are cold. I did not feel like I got any benefit but I did not do the research in to the breathing that the guru, Wim Hoff, recommends:)