How to Shower for a Ride (work, etc.)
10-14-17, 01:45 PM
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How to Shower for a Ride (work, etc.)
I was turned onto opening up my dopamagenic pathways by a PT recently. Rather than a Scottish shower for greater health and wellbeing (i.e., alternating hot and cold or at least ending a hot shower with a blast of icy cold water), the latest research suggests we benefit by simply ending a hot shower with cold for 2-3 minutes. And, it doesn't have to be polar cold– a temperature of 68°F (likened to jumping into the ocean in southern California) is enough change to jump start the system. It may be a bigger challenge to adopt this practice later when winter arrives but so far, I've been enjoying the benefits over the last couple of weeks.
10-14-17, 06:30 PM
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And what are the benefits?
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10-14-17, 06:56 PM
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I would prefer drinking a cup of coffee to standing in a cold shower. 
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10-14-17, 07:35 PM
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Sort of like a cup of coffee but… more like a Pacifico out of the ice chest with a fresh lime from a tree at the end of a dusty ride down the San Juan Trail to the bottom of the Santa Ana Mountains.
10-14-17, 08:41 PM
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I guess I've been doing it wrong.....I usually shower after my ride.
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This thread is ok without pics.
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Coffee and a iced shower for double the benefits?
10-14-17, 10:20 PM
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10-14-17, 11:02 PM
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Does anybody besides me think we might be overthinking pre and post ride procedures? Even a little?
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Some people are like a Slinky ... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
10-14-17, 11:56 PM
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10-15-17, 11:16 AM
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Should probably be illegal...
The mechanism that can probably explain the immediate mood-lifting effect of immersion in cold water or cold shower is probably the stimulation of the dopaminergic transmission in the mesocorticolimbic and nigrostriatal pathway. ~Nikolai Shevchuk
10-15-17, 11:24 AM
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In my experience, the "mood-lifting effect of immersion in cold water or cold shower" comes when I get out.
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Thanks to Nikolai Shevchuk for the simplified explanation......
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I certainly don't do it for 2-3 minutes, but I do turn down the shower temperature shortly before getting out. Closes the skin pores so that when I dry myself off I stay dry instead of still sweating a little.
10-15-17, 01:35 PM
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It's cheaper than an aged NY from Gallagher's with peppercorn sauce, roasted garlic glove and colossal baked potato...
10-15-17, 05:13 PM
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One of the things that separate us from third world countries...indoor plumbing w/hot showers.
Thanks but NO.
Thanks but NO.
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I was turned onto opening up my dopamagenic pathways by a PT recently. Rather than a Scottish shower for greater health and wellbeing (i.e., alternating hot and cold or at least ending a hot shower with a blast of icy cold water), the latest research suggests we benefit by simply ending a hot shower with cold for 2-3 minutes. And, it doesn't have to be polar cold– a temperature of 68°F (likened to jumping into the ocean in southern California) is enough change to jump start the system. It may be a bigger challenge to adopt this practice later when winter arrives but so far, I've been enjoying the benefits over the last couple of weeks.
If you just told them that they would save 2 watts,
they'd eat it up....
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I turn it to cold water for a couple minutes before getting out...but only so I am warmer when I get out instead of freezing lol. It's not bad if you do it slowly over a minute or two.
10-15-17, 10:43 PM
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For the, “significant decrease[s] in tension and fatigue and an improvement in mood and memory” or, the dopamine high?