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Hello, my readers. many people desire a better life: more exercise, a better body, more money, better mental health, more friends, status, and freedom. They wonder how to achieve all of it, but never realize that the answer is to start small with a simple habit like, you’ve guessed it – cold showers.

Why is this habit so effective at changing lives? And how can you start taking cold showers on a regular basis?

You’ll find all the answers in this simple guide to cold showers written with love to help you make a change.

Why Take Cold Showers?

There are tons of good habits out there that have a great potential of making one a better person and helping them become more than average. Weightlifting, meditation, reading, gratitude journaling, learning, deep working, and being in nature – all of these are 7 fundamental habits every man must have to be successful in life, which you can read more about here.

Out of all the good habits out there, though, cold showers stand out. They offer countless physical and mental benefits that can help you uncover your masculine potential and put it into great use.

They build discipline, increase energy, improve blood flow, give motivation to adopt other good habits, enhance the quality of your skin and hair, and do many other good things for you – but only if you’re willing to suffer for the sake of having a better future.

Want to find out the benefits in detail? Then keep on reading.

Cold Showers Build Discipline

This is, pehaps, the most important and valuable benefit that the cold showers offer. You see, life as a man is all about work and creating value. For thousands of years our ancestors have fought, conquered, worked, achieved, and created to provide for their families, tribes, and nourish their owns souls by unleashing the creative potential inside.

If you want to be more than an average degenerate loser and become more like your great grandparents, you need to develop discipline and stop being lazy. You simply can’t get things done effectively if all you do in your free time is get high, scroll on TikTok, and jack off to OnlyFans girls.

This is where cold showers come into play: they can serve you as a tool to help you resist and defeat excuses in your mind, so that you can do the necessary habits and work, especially when you least feel like it.

Whenever you’re about to step into the cold water, your brain will tell you tons of different excuses:

• “Oh, winter’s outside! I might get cold!”
• “I could spend that time preparing a good breakfast.”
• “Come on man, do you really have to do this?”

At this moment, try your best to acknowledge that these thoughts are merely your mind’s attempts to avoid the discomfort necessary for growth, and do the exact opposite of what it wants. if you repeat this daily for a few weeks, you’ll become much mentally stronger than you are today.

They Will Improve Your Blood Flow

Blood flow is extremely important in making you a productive and healthy man. The better you blood circulation is, the faster the nutrients will reach the cells of your body. This leads to faster muscle recovery, boosted productivity, energy, and even skin glow.

Other than that, research has shown that regularly engaging in activities that increase blood circulation can prevent numerous health risks, such as diabetis and cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, boosted blood flow ensures that your immune system functions well, which can help prevent diseases caused by bacteria and viruses, like cold.

Cold showers are a great way of getting your heart pumping faster and blood moving quicker through your veins. If the benefits that described above are so good, why not try being under the icy water on a regular basis?

Cold Showers Boost Confidence

Whenever you tell your mind to go fuck itself and step into the freezing cold water despite all the excuses, you prove to yourself that you are mentally strong. You reassure that you can deal with challenges, adversity, and doubts inside your own mind.

This will lead to greater confidence in all spheres of life. You’ll be more likely to go try lifting heavier weights at the gym, approach that girl, try a new hobby to replace mindless scrolling, or even pursue your masculine dreams.

Cold showers can serve you as one of the first steps necessary to give you the initial motivation to start self-improvement and make progress, which will later put you on the positive trajectory of life, where true fulfillment, respect, and happiness can be obtained.

They Will Help Build Better Habits

I don’t know who you are, and where you are in life. Whether you’re only considering starting self-improvement, or making great progress already, cold showers will be a nice addition to your habit list that will also cause other good habits to appear.

Think about this: when you witness all the benefits that these showers give you, you will realize that life and its aspects can be controlled by you. You will be inspired to have more benefits and make even more progress.

You will want to start going to the gym and exercising regularly, instead of living a sedentary lifestyle with no purpose whatsoever. There is a high chance that you will also likely consider starting to meditate, or do gratitude journaling, since these habits are easier to build than cold showers, and have amazing benefits for your mental health.

Slowly, but surely, taking cold showers will assist you in improving your daily habits, changing them from social media scrolling and porn to meditating, working out, reading, and doing purposeful work.

They Will Improve Your Mood

At the first glance, taking cold showers are extremely uncomfortable and even painful to endure for some. During the showers itself cold water lower your dopamine and serotonin levels, making you feel bad at the moment.

However, as soon as you leave the shower, you feel amazing. You feel relaxed, but energized, and ready to start the day. Cold showers also prevent bullshit negative thoughts from appearing in your mind, since it’s busy with processing what just happened and regulating the body’s internal processes.

Being in the freezing water greatly boosts your mood, and if you have trouble with being cheerful or positive during the day, then this habit might be a great solution for your problem.

You Will Get Testosterone Boost

Last, but not least, washing yourself in cold water regularly will greatly boost your levels of testosterone – male body’s sexual hormone.

Your testes are responsible for producing testosterone and distributing it throughout your body. They usually have the temprerature of about 34ºC – 3 degrees less than the average body temperature. Being in warm clothers for long perios of time leads to your testes being warmer than normal.

In simpler words, taking a cold shower few times a week will improve regulation of tempertature inside your balls, which will lead to their better functioning overall and bigger production of testosterone. Which is the hormone important?

On the psychological level, it’s responsible for making you calmer, more confident, assertive, and goal-striving. The more testosterone you have, the more you wish to climb out the social hierarchy and work towards important goals. Such changes in your attitude will definetely help you achieve more than the mediocre masses you see around.

This doesn’t mean that you’ll become a cocky and arrogant jock who only cares about status and fame. No. It simply means that you’ll have more courage and energy to do the right things that will lead to your personal growth as a man.

This is another important reason why cold showers are a great habit to start. But how do you actually take them?

How to Start Taking Cold Showers

Starting a new good habit is uncomfortable and hard for most people, since they have wrong mindsets and expectations about how they work.

The main thing is that most good habits are delayed gratification – uncomfortable activities that kind of feel bad right now, but bring amazing results later.

In contrast, there is instant gratification – comfortable activities that feel extremely good and pleasurable right now, but make your life worse each time you do them. Most people pick instant gratification over delayed gratification, since they are afraid of discomfort, and have the belief that “pleasure = happiness.”

None of these are true if you examine them closely. Discomfort leads to growth, persistence, achievement, and fulfillment, while pleasure, although brings feel-good sensations at the moment, leads you towards a negative path of hedonism and indulgence.

To change your life, you need to start picking discomfort over pleasure. As a first step, take uncomfortable cold showers every day in the morning for 30-60 seconds.

Take off your clothes, enter the shower cabin, turn the faucet all the way to the cold side, and turn on the water flow. Do not try to mentally resist the water, rather, try your best to breathe deeply and observe the water dropping down on your body. Put on soap, wash it off, and then leave the cabin to enjoy the benefits described above.

Summary

Things that create great results are usually small things repeated regularly for prolonged periods of time. For that reason, if you want to change your life for better through delayed gratification – start small by doing something as little as taking cold showers every morning.

After all, they build discipline, increase blood flow, boost confidence, testosterone production, immune system, help to implement other good habits, and improve your mood. There are tons of other benefits I haven’t written down in this article, so that you can find them out by yourself and get motivated to start your day with a task achieved.

Suffer now for a better future, or feel pleasure today to wake up with a worse tomorrow. The choice is yours, brother.

If you have any questions or want to share your opinion about the post, feel free to write them down in the comments below. See you next time.