Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Eric Garza on April 14, 2014, 08:16:21 pm
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I suppose this is a primitive skill, so I'll share it here. Over the past four years I've been developing my cold tolerance, and here in Vermont a warm snap has finally made the ice covering Lake Champlain start to break up. I managed to sneak into an open area between ice sheets for a swim earlier this afternoon, then lied out on the beach in the sun afterwards. The water temperature was just a shred above 34 Fahrenheit (1.2 Celsius). Left me feeling refreshed and limber!
(http://www.howericlives.com/wp-content/uploads/Ice1.jpg)
The above photograph was kindly taken by a cyclist from shore with her phone. Not the best image quality, but she did the best she could without a zoom lens given how far out in the lake I was. My skin is so red it looks like I've got a severe sunburn, but I don't. When I'm in cold water my blood rushes to my skin, giving my skin a deep red hue. It goes away within a few minutes of exiting the water.
Anyone else out there in PA land partake?
For those who are interested, I wrote up a more detailed blog post about cold training earlier this evening: Embracing the chill (http://www.howericlives.com/embracing-the-chill/).
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Geez, I turn purple when the water is only 72
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Ou can almost make out three adam's apples in his neck
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Ou can almost make out three adam's apples in his neck
LOL!!!!!!!!! ;D >:D
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Dang! so uh..... how long does it take for your rectal sphincter muscles to relax after a dip like that, not to mention for your voice to reach a baritone level again? ::) Are you able to swallow, without getting a severe stomach pain? ::)
No Eric, I think you are pretty much the only one on here who does this type of training. We train for heat down here, in Florida, In the shade, with a cold one, or in the air condition. ;)
Wayne
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I'm with you Eric!- been taking cold showers exclusively for the last 8 years.(except when someone wants to join) As cold as it goes. I've checked the temp and its anywhere from 3-7 degrees C in the winter. Also a fan of ice baths. I've noticed my cold tolerance has definitely improved, but my heat tolerance has gone down, haha.
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Come Live In Northwest MN for a winter...+30 feels like a heat wave..And You don't have to tie a string on anything to retrieve it after a cold swim....
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...so uh..... how long does it take for your rectal sphincter muscles to relax after a dip like that, not to mention for your voice to reach a baritone level again? ::) Are you able to swallow, without getting a severe stomach pain? ::)...
Not a problem. I'm so used to cold water at this point that muscles don't tense up when I first go in. I'm distinctly aware that the water's cold and can't stay in forever without shivering, but it just doesn't have the same effect on me that it used to.
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Cool, ;) ;D ;D ;D I am a hot shower warm water kind of guy,don't know how you stand that. :)
Pappy
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It was a tradition in college that all the crazy kids would go barreling down the beach after the bars closed at 1, naked as jaybirds. New England in Feb. could be a real treat with ocean temps usually around 36 or so in RI. Needless to say, I'd keep the heat running in the car! I always liked the ritual to get all the damned cigarette stink off me.
I used to help teach scuba up there and diving in March would be PAINFUL. Underwater for about 15 minutes and it would take the rest of the day to warm back up. I don't miss it!!!
Have fun.
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Ou can almost make out three adam's apples in his neck
lmao omg that was a good one jw hahahaha
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Hey! I know that lake!
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Really? Live nearby?
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Coldcheddar born and raised
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...so uh..... how long does it take for your rectal sphincter muscles to relax after a dip like that, not to mention for your voice to reach a baritone level again? ::) Are you able to swallow, without getting a severe stomach pain? ::)...
Not a problem. I'm so used to cold water at this point that muscles don't tense up when I first go in. I'm distinctly aware that the water's cold and can't stay in forever without shivering, but it just doesn't have the same effect on me that it used to.
Oh, yea, what's your wife say about shrinkage? ;D ;)
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When I was in bootcamp, sometimes they would wake us up out of nowhere on a cold night/early am and make us go down to the docks on the lake and jump in and out and then stand at attention over and over again. I think they called them "in and out drills" ( lol :) ) They say it is supposed to be good for your heart. Nowadays, if I turn the shower on cold instead of hot on accident, I about have a heart attack! :) I was a cub scout when I was real young, we did those "polar bear" swims, that was actually pretty cool. I liked it, after you got used to being in the water, it wasn't so bad.