标题: 洗冷水澡的好处! [打印本页] 作者: 笑天 时间: 2013-12-13 19:39 标题: 洗冷水澡的好处! The Benefits of Taking Cold Baths
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洗冷水澡的好处
作者Daktari
It is winter time again! Depending on where you live, this may or may not be such good news. Regardless if you live at the Equator or near the poles, you must have experienced being cold at some point in time. Have you ever been outside in the cold and shiver, while one of your friends seems to not feel a thing? Have you ever wanted to be able to go outside and not worry about the cold so much? If so, turn on the water in your bathtub, and get in.
Sometimes you have to march through hell to get to heaven. This philosophy can be applied to fighting cold off. Ice or cold baths will help improve your body's response to cold weather, as well as helping you recover from strenuous physical activities. You might have seen it in movies or documentaries where a bodybuilder will take an ice bath after finishing his workout. Have you ever wondered why? After working out, blood clears the waste products of exercising, such as lactic acid. A cold bath contracts your blood vessels, making them smaller. After sitting for five minutes in cold water, your body will feel numb, due to less blood flowing in your body. When you get out of a cold bath, new blood will start flowing in higher amounts as the vessels slowly expand. This new blood will clear the waste products from your muscles, aiding in your recovery time.
Cold baths also help you stand colder temperatures for longer periods of time. The way this works is quite simple, practice. Taking a cold bath to help you with the freezing weather, it's like fighting fire with fire. Fortunately, it works. Mountain climbers stick their hands in snow to avoid frostbite for example. The rest of their bodies are warm, so the blood flow to their hands is increased. This works on a larger scale too, such as full body baths instead of partial ones. Taking cold baths will stimulate the blood flow to the skin and will psychologically and physically make you withstand freezing temperatures that otherwise you would not have been able to.
A cold bath should last anywhere in between 5 to 10 minutes. You have to get in and make yourself comfortable with the cold. It will feel hard to breath and your instincts will just try to get you out of it. However, stick with the pain in order to reap the benefits.