00:00welcome here to this video my name is Lucas and as you can see I'm not at home I'm here in New York and in the Central Park it's an amazing place and especially the Central Park it's my favorite place here because it's so quiet in here you can read you can record videos and your your for yourself and outside it's so busy and you can see all these big buildings here and it's beautiful so when you have the opportunity to come to New York you should definitely do it and I'm here for three more days and then it's time to go back home to London and yeah but now today we want to I want to film this video because I did a small experiment and I want to share my experiences with it and what I learned doing it so I took a cold shower for 14 days straight it was something I wanted to try because I heard so many good things about it and I can tell you there are so many benefits behind it and I feel so much better since I shower coat every day that I also will continue it and I can just recommend it for you and all these things why I'm doing it and why I
01:00continue it I want to talk here with you today and also how I shower because I think that some yeah it's important to mention so let's start with the video first of all I think it's only a small benefit but it's worth mentioning and you are quicker I mean when it's super cold you want to get out of the shower so you lose less time so I normally with Asko or when I take a cold shower I only take one or two minutes it's a bit faster and a small benefit then I have more energy and I am normally someone I like to drink coffee I really like coffee not just to be more awake in the morning but when I shower cold I feel similar to the moment after I drank my coffee I have a lot of energy and that's I think pretty nice to to get this cake not from caffeine but from something natural from cold water and I'm I have much more energy and it's especially something good if you want to get rid of caffeine and try something else it's definitely worth trying and a big recommendation and I also smile
02:00every day I can't I come out of the shower I don't know why I think because of all the hormones that get released but it's really nice to wake up in the morning smile after you after I took this shower because normally I wake up really early and I only sleep seven hours and I'm I'm a bit grumpy and I the first one hour I want to be for myself I'm a bit introverted in this time and with a shower I am I'm super energized and I'm ready to get into the day and I think the most or the biggest benefit at the end is that I'm more satisfied because I wake up and I already did something I achieved something I I achieved a goal I set myself and that's super important and the biggest benefit for myself what I experienced immediately after I started this experiment so definitely do it and there are more and more benefit so first of all it strengthens your willpower because it's every day when you wake up it's a challenge because you don't want to get and take this cold
03:00shower and you challenge yourself and you get better and what does also really interesting is that your body adapts to this stress situation and that you are more calm in in in an everyday situation so you're more relaxed you're more chilled because yeah you experience stress every morning and you could use to it and it's like you can suffer better it's like you suffer every morning and it's really nice so give it a try they're also more benefits some health benefits because I think you know a lot of people that takes on us and after this they take an ice bath it's similar of course it's not that cold as an ice bath but it's strengthen your immunity because your blood or your body releases more more white blood cells and that's really health beneficial and good for a lot of yeah diseases you can get and it's it's strengthened it strengthens your body against all these diseases and you have a lot of health benefits and also for muscle recovery because it pushes your blood circulation
04:00and it removes all the lactic acids so also good for muscle recovery when you're an athlete and I think you know a lot of pro athletes at the top level that immediately after they had a hard workout or a competition they go and take a night ice bath or shower and that's similar to do this every single morning and it's also beneficial for your health and how I take a cold shower it's pretty easy first of all I hate I there there are some strategies out there and I watched some videos and I just tried it out myself first before I watched a video so I have a completely different strategy because some people start warm and then they turn colder colder and then it's completely cold I start completely code from the beginning first of all I only put my head under the cold water get the water on then a bit water on my whole body and then I used the shampoo get it everywhere and first of all then when I have shampoo all over my body I just put
05:00my head under the water and get rid of the shampoo in my hair and when that's done that's again your body is already bit used to the coldness because you have every yo-yo you had everywhere cold water expect off your back and your back is extremely hard because the moment when you go under the water with your whole body it's that's the hardest moment because all your nerves are really close to your back at your spine and what I do after this I go completely under the water get rid of all the rest of the shampoo on my body and stay there for for 30 seconds and the most important thing is breathing and that's super super important because normally when you jump into cold water you start breathing super fast and hectic alike and you need to go under the shower and breathe really deep and slow like and when you do this the water is actually not cold it's it's not warm but it's it's nice so breathing is
06:00extremely important when you take a cold shower and it's changed everything because the first two sessions I didn't know about this and then I try to deliver better with a better breathing technique and everything was way way better and I really enjoyed to take this cold shower and it gets better from day to day you get more used to it you feel more comfortable the first five sessions are super hard and then gets easier I think it never gets to the point where you say oh I would like or I would love to take cold shower now because it's you it's always a challenge because it's cold and you don't want to stress or you don't want to put your body in this stressful situation and yeah that's a bit my technique how I shall call and all the benefits and I will continue it because it's nice and that's why I love experiments like this because before this I didn't know about all these benefits and I had no clue what this has or what effect for my body is but now I tried it and I realized and I have something what I can implement in
07:00my routine and I will experiment a lot more to get more things that I like and maybe I don't like and I will document it here in small videos and just put up the camera here random in the Central Park from some videos and I hope you like this one and we see us again in the next video bye bye