[honzzz]

To provide one anecdotal data counterpoint: I decided to try cold showers a few years ago (not Wim Hof method, just showers) and although I generaly get ill very rarely, that year I cougt something three times. It obviously does not prove anything, might have been just bad luck, but after the third time I did not have the willpower to restart the cold showers routine again.

Maybe I was doing it wrong but I do not know how - I started with just showering my legs with lukewarm water and progressed to colder water and longer time gradually, very slowly. However, it never made me feel as good as some people here descibe. Sometimes I felt slightly refreshed during the summer but more often I just felt cold and stiff and I had strong desire to return to bed to warm up but I could not do that and I had to sit in my office cold and miserable for hours.

Maybe cold showers are not for everybody?

[jrm4]

I feel like there's value in the "shock?"

As in, don't do it gradually.

Drop it INSTANTLY and just see how long you can last, even if it's only a few seconds. I know at first I was like okay, 5 seconds f* this.

But then you can make it a bit of a game for yourself, and after a while it just becomes habit.

(and fyi, I live in Florida, so staying in longer is much easier-- But I can say this switch made me change from dreading visiting relatives up North because that would ALWAYS make me sick --- to "aww yeah super cold showers in the morning," and you know, not getting sick.)