Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to get three

chilling ways that you can get the benefits of cold exercise. Now, it's no secret that I'm a fan of the cold.

In the episode five little known ways to burn fat and build muscle, I discuss how I use something

called cold thermogenesis for things like fat loss and hormone balance. And then in another

get fit guy episode called More Proof that Ice Can Help You Get Fit,

I talk about two studies that prove the effectiveness of cold thermogenesis, icing,

and cold water immersion for everything from muscle soreness to exercise-induced muscle

damage to relieving inflammation.

Now, in that same episode, I mentioned that I keep my own home

at about 60 to 65 degrees. I take a couple icy cold showers a day. I use something called a fat-burning

ice vest, a cool fat-burner vest during the summer, and I implement lots of other body-cooling

strategies that I'm going to give you links to in the show

notes to this episode. Just go to quick and dirty tips.com and look for episode 304. And finally,

as if that weren't enough to make you think I'm obsessed with cold things, I also dispel the myth

that icing a muscle is bad for you in my episode called Are Cold Showers and Baths Really Bad for You.

But this month, I discovered three recent articles on cold exposure, articles that you may

want to pay close attention to if you want to maximize the benefits of exercise by using

the cold. So let's dive into this chilling body of research, shall we?

Number one is to get cold before your next

workout. Now, in this first study, entitled Running Performance in the Heat is improved by similar

magnitude with pre-exercise cold water immersion and mid-exercise facial water spray. You learn about

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