Cold Shower VS Ice Bath: Which one is better? #AskWim

Hi, guys. The ice is broken.

This is a Q&A on the cold exposure series.

If you have a question, I got the answer. Here it comes.

How does the cold relate to the mindset and to the breathing? I don't know...

Yeah, I do know.

I tell you, man, that's a big story.

I could write a book just on the breathing,

because what are you doing when you go into the cold?

Yeah, that's what you do.

That is because deep breathing changes the chemistry and the cold triggers

the chemistry to be changed. How?

Deep breathing. And the cold is our teacher.

Because it is a stressful environment that you get into, consciously.

Your mindset is going to work. It knows...

'Oh, look, we are going to go into cold, and it's cold and...'

And you learn how to tap in there consciously. At that moment,

into the deepest of your brain.

And this is the way to get into your mindsetting,

into your brain stem, which is the deepest of our brain.

And when you learn that fact, using the cold as a beautiful teacher,

as a beautiful mirror, showing you merciless

but righteous, the way to go into the depths of your brain.

Then where else can you not go

voluntarily inside your own brain?

You are the master of your mind.

The cold will teach you mindset and breathing.

You are the alchemist.

What is the best?

An ice bath compared to natural body of water

or a cold shower or a cryo chamber?

Don't compare. Just do feels best for you.

Because in the end, the cold exposure is your friend.

It's your friend for life.

Better get the right relationship.

Try out a natural body of a cold water, cryo chamber if you want.

Ice water, in a chest freezer and a cold shower.

And see what you feel, where you really get into your deepest of your physiology.

It's up to you. And so it's worth the investment to find out

where you are able to get the best result.

It always depends on your...

on the difference of physiology.

You know, you got a different body than mine.

But in the end, you want to get into the deepest part

of your physiology, both of the mind and body, through the cold.

That's where we meet. How?

Through the cold shower, through the cryo chamber, through the ice

water of the chest freezer or a natural body of water.

It doesn't matter.

Get to the place where you influence

directly into your mind and your body for the deepest.

And when is it when you feel adapted to the cold?

And when is it enough?

What is adaptation all about?

Adaptation is the optimal stimulation of your vascular system.

And with that, you train your heart.

It becomes much less stressed

because our whole vascular system; The 120.000 kilometers.

Seventy thousand miles.

It's activated, optimized.

It's done when your muscular tone is relaxed while being in the cold.

It takes about two minutes.

When you have done the two minutes, it's there.

You have optimized your vascular tone.

Your condition is perfect.

The way nature meant it to be.

If you want to go longer, that is more the mind.

You want to stay there because you want to train the mind.

Hey, that's OK. But don't force.

Know what you're doing. Don't force.

forcing, doesn't bring good.

Forcing doesn't bring development.

Forcing brings destruction.

Don't do it. No forcing.

You will feel what you are capable of and your mind and body connects you.

It's amazing how you can train your mind by going in

and ordering your body by your mind consciously.

'I want to stay three minutes more'

and what it does.

Without force. Feel powerful.

Have a great time.

Should you alternate between cold and heat?

Or do the cold alone or a heat alone?

Alternating is opening and closing or constricting the veins

and the capillaries, but passively.

Now, if you want to learn to have a better control over the vascular system,

which is done by

going into the cold.

Then just do cold exposure.

And later, when you've got it all done.

You take the hot shower and enjoy it

massively more, because then you decide.

You've been deciding to go into the cold

and suddenly the vascular system is listening to you.

You are exercising the vascular system at that moment.

You are the boss.

You are the observer.

Not passively undergoing; 'And now heat' 'And

now cold.' And then the heat gets in...

the charge of the heat gets in.

And that is being washed away by the cold...

It's still good training.

But the best training is the training of the mind.

That you go with your mindset, set to go in.

And then take the cold and then consciously

create this connection with the depth of your brain.

Be there, and be OK there,

instead of being cold, you experience water as it is.

It's water. Why?

Because you consciously changed your body and you are on top of it.

When you go directly into the cold without having the heat,

than you are exercising your brain,

your mind, into the depths of your brain. It's amazing.

So good luck with any of those.

Alternating? Fine.

But if you really want an exercise of the mind, you go directly into the cold

and learn to take it on until it becomes water,

because then you are into power over your hormonal system,

your vascular system, your lymphatic system. Any system.

The cold trains us. Amazing.

Hey, guys, thank you very much for your questions.

It enlightens a lot of mysteries and confusion about how to deal with the cold.

I would say 'chill out', chill out the right way, going into the cold.

Keep on a questioning and report back.

I want to know your questions because we've got to find out so much more.

The mystery of going into the cold is really very, very, very, very deep.

And together, we will find out.

Amazing. Thank you.