Cold Showers - Join the fun!

[chadz]

So, since my water heating system in my flat broke again, and I'm tired of fixing it myself, and there's no way I'm gonna spend a lot of money on letting it be replaced by a pro, there is only one solution left:

Cold Showers.

They are healthy, they make you strong, and you're badass.

The vid boils down to: If you can’t do something uncomfortable and difficult for 5 minutes in the shower – how the hell are you going to do something uncomfortable or difficult in real life?

I tried it yesterday for the first time. It's a horrible feeling in the beginning, but after you get out of it, you feel.. amazing.

So there is this thing called the 30 day cold shower challenge. One cold shower per day. I'm going for it. Join me.
I'll post my results on 24th of may.

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The reason I'm writing it here is so I don't cop out, become a pussy and repair my water heating system.

[Vibe]

Cold yes... but shower every day? PREPOSTEROUS

[Sir_Hans]

Oh this is easy!

In hawaii I sweat inside my house just sitting at the PC because we have no AC here and its common for it to be 80 degrees outside after the sun goes down...

Cold showers erryday! 

[Molly]

Are we talking about half-cold or full-cold here?

[chadz]

As cold as it gets. In vienna, that's somewhere between 6° and 10°

[Molly]

I already do a cold bit when I am done but that's probably more like half-cold since the hot shower before heated me up.
I like the idea. Will see tonight if I am willing to do it

[Gnjus]

and there's no way I'm gonna spend a lot of money on letting it be replaced by a pro,

It's alright, just open a new 72-hours Kickstarter campaign for "additional costs of M:BG in order to make it an even better gaming experience". We'll understand. 

[Torben]

I lived in a souterrain 1room flat with the shower at the end of a 20m hallway through the cellar.  Never had warm water there,  did my workouts at 5am in the gym next door,  then jumped nakid through the cellar,  took a cold shower while the whole place was blasting of deichkind,  then off to university at eight.  best way to wake up,  I am sure you can pull through if you dont have the option of warm water! especially now where summer is coming : )
since I live in a comfy house I never shower cold anymore QQ...

[Prpavi]

Kramer: "You should take cold showers."

George: "Cold showers? They're for psychotics."

[Paul]

Cold water doesn't get you clean in the long run. Get your water heating fixed and then end your normal(hot not warm) showering like a man with switching to cold for a minute. Seriously, get it fixed or you'll look like a bum soon.

[IR_Kuoin]

Brrr, count me out. I'll be enjoying a warm shower thinking about your struggles chadz. On the other hand ice bathing a couple of mins then jump into a hot pool is amazing.

[Teeth]

I guess I already completed a 150 day cold shower challenge or something. I always take cold showers in summer because then its just refreshing, and the water temperature is like 15 degrees anyway. Two years ago I decided to just keep doing it. You always hear these stories about people who swim in a lake every morning and aren't too bothered by it even in the winter just because they do it every day. Also, my skin doesn't deal too well with hot water. I definitely got more comfortable with it, none of that jerky breathing shit that happened at first. However cold will still be cold, it will never become comfortable even if you do it every day.  As it becomes winter the temperature of the water does noticably decrease, it's just a few degrees but a degree is a lot when it comes to showering. I don't think they made me particularly strong or bad ass, mostly just rather cold. Actually kinda hurts in winter. I finally budged at the start of januari and god did that first gust of warm water feel good.

In any case, starting in spring is bitch mode because it is all uphill from there. You gotta start in autumn.

Cold water doesn't get you clean in the long run. Get your water heating fixed and then end your normal(hot not warm) showering like a man with switching to cold for a minute. Seriously, get it fixed or you'll look like a bum soon.

Meh, never noticed any of that, I use washcloths though. Switching too cold from normal, now that is a terrible thing in winter.

[Gnjus]

get it fixed or you'll look like a bum soon.

Too late for that. 

[chadz]

Cold water doesn't get you clean in the long run.

Don't think I've read that anywhere. When I start noticing that, I might consider fixing it and showering warm once a week.

Seriously, get it fixed or you'll look like a bum soon.

That's for the ladies to decide.

[Fredom]

chadz goin beast mode, chadz goin badass