Health-wise, I would recommend you to find the closest river and start with cold water immersion.
If not possible, start with cold showers.
Your future self will thank you.
If not possible, start with cold showers.
Your future self will thank you.
Those two weeks of cold showers were some of the unhappiest in my life. The dread of standing naked in the shower with your hand on the knob. The involuntary spasmodic shivering when the jet of icy water hits your trunk. Panicked attempts to rinse off soap and shampoo that just don't want to foam in water that cold.
No. Never again. No.
The experience of cold water from a faucet is very different from the experience of a cold lake.
You cannot get submerged via a faucet.
You'll of course only get the lake experience in a lake. But you won't get the bathtub experience in a lake, either.
One September, I started to shower myself with cold water at least once a day.
It's been 4 years now and I haven't taken a single antibiotic since.
It also has a great mental effect - doing something a bit uncomfortable every single day makes it easier to do something else that's also uncomfortable.