Once you get back inside, do more pushups or other warming exercise and then start shower with cold water or just beat shock by continually splashing spine channel in the back with hot water which will warm spine as fast as it gets(spine is exposed to cold more in the back then anywhere else so one can also warm fast with such technique and body temperature gets normalized speedy according to my opinion - this is possible only if your toes aren't half frozen - if you have frostbite alike cold/pain in your toes/fingers, then go gradually toward warm by increasing warmth - don't start with hot)...another way to regulate body temperature n your way back to warm is to instead proceed with exercise - you may walk etc. and then return inside...there is many ways to beat what bothers me the most and no one talks about - a return into heated area(cold doesn't bother me, but return into warm does).
Cold water swimming is great for spine because it decompresses any potential swelling of injury on spine and off course strengthen one as swimming does...if injured make sure to stretch your spine between exercise/swimming sets....
My recommendation:
Eat some chocolate(or honey) before swimming which energy will help you in transition from warm to cold....don't load yourself too much with one as will be difficult to do exercise.
#1 body temperature adjustment(skip swimming just immerse body in water - I never immerse head under water and I wear cap for extra comfort). DO NOT JUMP IN THE WATER AT ONCE !!!
#2 good exercise
#3 swimming
# 4 good exercise
#5 swimming
and again repeat if you like till is enough - even that I could swim for much much longer, I never stay more than few minutes at time and this is to prevent possible issues with cold or even worse...its only a joy(fun), so keep it this way to keep coming back more often ;)
They are tougher...
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