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I have read that houdini would soak in a tub of ice water in order to harden to cold temps.
Any thoughts or experience?
Any thoughts or experience?
Honestly sounds like a bad idea to me. Just cold water sure, even awesome in hot temperatures. But ice water, first it's going to start hurting sooner rather than later. Sticking your arm in a bucket of ice and water and holding it there will show that. And if you persistent past the pain, nothing like a case of self inflicted hypothermia to ruin your day. I suppose theoretically it would work to an extent, personally I get my cold adjustment just by living through winter. And I do my best to stay out of ice water! But thinking about it, if you fall through the ice into a lake or river, no matter how many ice baths you have taken that water will lower you body temperature at a given rate, and at certain point if you don't warm up, you die.I have read that houdini would soak in a tub of ice water in order to harden to cold temps.
Any thoughts or experience?
I have to agree with that.I just do it the normal way.....give it time. Acclimatization is 100% a real thing, for hot and cold...but for me its always just happened the normal way, by pushing through it. As far as I know, there is now way to speed it up, you just do it.
We should probably do another thread on surviving the heat. There are lots of 'tricks' to it.Acclimatization is a thing. So is Mind Over Matter. If you whine and complain about the weather, then being out in that weather is going to suck. When it's 102 outside, you just suck it up and sweat. When it's -20, you wear what you need to and you suck it up and shiver. Being cold or hot isn't fatal unless you're stupid about it...
I have seen many times more people have health problems from being overheated instead of being too cold.
A heat thread is a good idea. The solutions are so simple, but not always easy to do. A thread about heat might be a good reminder for the members here...We should probably do another thread on surviving the heat. There are lots of 'tricks' to it.
I know a lot of 'em.
I have seen many times more people have health problems from being overheated instead of being too cold.
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