What's your favorite pick-me-up?
What's your favorite pick-me-up?
Sometimes one just doesn't have the energy to do what needs done. How do you manage it?
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Cold showers can help with that
I have a shower as warm as I can to open all my pores and clean them out.
Then I slam the water all the way to the coldest possible and force myself to stay under it for two minutes.
That's a huge wake-up call.
I read about that trick years ago. It was in an essay by Ian Fleming. He wrote '...as hot as you can stand it for as long as you can stand it, followed by as cold as you can take it for as long as you can take it.'
I learned it from ancient Orkney technology called "sauna". 😉
TIL people start the day with a sauna. We always use it as the end of the workout.
When I was living in Japan and using public baths cycling between hot and cold baths a couple of times this way was my favorite thing.
Appearantly it basically causes blood to do some neat stuff by dilating and constricting blood vessels to move blood to the core or the extremities.
All I knew is if you cycle about three or four times and drink one beer it's the cheapest drunk you will ever be.
What it does is trigger your parasympathetic nervous system (or maybe the sympathetic, I always lose track of which does what). And yes, that makes blood vessels constrict and dilate and I just find that it enervates me and makes me feel really good.
I'll try taking a shot after such a shower and report back. 🤣