25. Cold water therapy: the natural drug you never know you needed
Raw & Uncovered
James Middleton
3.3 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Cold water therapy has suddenly become the new health craze...why you may be wondering? Because what it does to you is quite something, and I'm fully on board with it. I'm currently in a pretty militant routine but have never felt happier and cold exposure is a part of that routine, every single morning. I discuss how I got into cold water therapy, the best way of starting, the unbelievable physical and mental benefits around it and a few other top tips worth knowing before you turn that shower cold or dive into an ice bath.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 25 of the Bouncing Back podcast with me, James Middleton. |
| 0:12.4 | Now, I was just having a little giggle to myself because if you had told me six months ago |
| 0:17.5 | that I was going to be doing a podcast on cold water therapy because I've been |
| 0:25.0 | getting into five degree ice baths at 6am. I would have laughed in your face. I really would. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm going to go into it in this podcast because I'm not a cold water guy I never really have been I |
| 0:38.3 | way prefer that the hot hot water and hot temperatures and lying on a beach and the sun |
| 0:45.3 | I'm a very hot weather guy is that a thing I think so so yeah this to me is kind of a little |
| 0:52.9 | bit surreal but there are some awesome points that I'm |
| 0:57.6 | going to be talking about and I'm really excited about this and I think for me it's one of those |
| 1:03.7 | things that I've introduced into my life completely unexpectedly and I'll tell you kind of how |
| 1:08.9 | it happened and why I've been doing it but has just had incredible benefits and I'll tell you kind of how it happened and why I've been doing it, but has just |
| 1:11.8 | had incredible benefits. And I think that's the beauty of life, isn't it? That sometimes if you |
| 1:18.5 | fast forward a year or however long, you can be doing things that you just didn't think you |
| 1:23.4 | would ever be able to do. And it's quite a nice feeling when you're on the other side of it. |
| 1:29.7 | But on that, I've basically, I've basically, well, actually, let me tell you what we're going to |
| 1:35.5 | be talking about first in this podcast so you get an idea. So I'm going to give you a bit of an |
| 1:39.9 | explanation of the kind of situation I'm in at the moment going full monk mode and I'll explain |
| 1:44.8 | what that is but I want to tell you how I got into cold water therapy I want to tell you about the |
| 1:50.1 | best ways of starting I'm going to go through the mental benefits the physical benefits |
| 1:55.4 | and then just a few other kind of top tips around around it that are worth knowing that will hopefully help you |
| 2:02.3 | if you decide to go down this path and try it out, which I really hope some of you do after |
| 2:08.9 | listening to this. That's not my sole aim, by the way, of this podcast. Don't worry. I am just, |
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