How to Properly Immerse Yourself in Ice Water on a Swimming Day
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:54 am
Cold water dousing is perfect for these purposes. To begin with, use water at 30 degrees Celsius, and then reduce the water temperature to 15 degrees or more. After dousing, rub your body with a towel.
Another method is a cold shower. This is a more aggressive hardening measure. At the very beginning, it is worth making the water temperature about 32 degrees and standing under it for no more than a minute. Then you can lower the temperature, and increase the time under the shower to 2 minutes. Well-hardened people can withstand temperature changes from 35 to 13 degrees for three minutes. After the procedure, be sure to rub the body with a towel.
The most gentle way is to rub the body with a towel, sponge or just a hand soaked in cold water. The sequence should be as follows: first the neck, then the chest and back. After that, rub these areas with a towel until they are red and move on to rubbing the legs, which then also need to be rubbed. The entire procedure should take no more than 5 minutes.
Some doctors recommend going out onto the balcony taiwan mobile database for a couple of minutes every day for a week in shorts and a T-shirt so that the body gets used to the cold.
Of course, everything is very individual: someone will prefer one method of preparation, someone else another. In addition, methods can be combined with each other.
Sergey Druzhinin
Photo - © Sergey Druzhinin / RIA MO
The main advice is to soberly assess your physical condition. If you have the slightest runny nose or feel unwell, you should refuse to dive. Also, you should not dive unprepared: there is always a risk of cold shock, when a spasm occurs in the body and a person loses consciousness.
It is worth measuring your blood pressure: if it is lower than your norm, then immersion in water can provoke convulsions and loss of consciousness. If it is higher than normal, there is a risk of stroke. With any deviation in blood pressure readings, it is worth assessing the safety of swimming for the body.
Choose only those swimming spots that are officially approved by the authorities and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. They must be equipped with information stands, descents into the water. The presence of lifeguards is mandatory.
Just before diving into the water, it is worth doing warm-up exercises.
You can eat something nutritious, but don’t overeat – this will add stress to the body.
It is strictly forbidden to consume alcohol before and after immersion in the font.
You should definitely go to the ice hole in shoes and warm clothes. You shouldn't be a hero and expose your body to cold shock right before diving into the water.
When undressing in the cold, you need to take off your clothes slowly: first, take off your outerwear, then gradually remove the remaining additional layers. Lastly, you need to take off your shoes, which should be non-slip to avoid injury.
Immersion in water should also be gradual, but short. Having entered the water up to the knee, you should carefully wash yourself. Ideally, stay in the water for about ten seconds, but not more than a minute. Submerging the entire head is undesirable, and for beginners it is even dangerous: a sharp cooling of the head can cause a spasm of the blood vessels of the brain and serious consequences.
After bathing, you need to quickly rub your body with a dry, hard towel and put on warm clothes made of natural fabrics, go indoors and drink a hot drink.
You can't rub yourself with snow after diving - you can get hypothermia.
Another method is a cold shower. This is a more aggressive hardening measure. At the very beginning, it is worth making the water temperature about 32 degrees and standing under it for no more than a minute. Then you can lower the temperature, and increase the time under the shower to 2 minutes. Well-hardened people can withstand temperature changes from 35 to 13 degrees for three minutes. After the procedure, be sure to rub the body with a towel.
The most gentle way is to rub the body with a towel, sponge or just a hand soaked in cold water. The sequence should be as follows: first the neck, then the chest and back. After that, rub these areas with a towel until they are red and move on to rubbing the legs, which then also need to be rubbed. The entire procedure should take no more than 5 minutes.
Some doctors recommend going out onto the balcony taiwan mobile database for a couple of minutes every day for a week in shorts and a T-shirt so that the body gets used to the cold.
Of course, everything is very individual: someone will prefer one method of preparation, someone else another. In addition, methods can be combined with each other.
Sergey Druzhinin
Photo - © Sergey Druzhinin / RIA MO
The main advice is to soberly assess your physical condition. If you have the slightest runny nose or feel unwell, you should refuse to dive. Also, you should not dive unprepared: there is always a risk of cold shock, when a spasm occurs in the body and a person loses consciousness.
It is worth measuring your blood pressure: if it is lower than your norm, then immersion in water can provoke convulsions and loss of consciousness. If it is higher than normal, there is a risk of stroke. With any deviation in blood pressure readings, it is worth assessing the safety of swimming for the body.
Choose only those swimming spots that are officially approved by the authorities and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. They must be equipped with information stands, descents into the water. The presence of lifeguards is mandatory.
Just before diving into the water, it is worth doing warm-up exercises.
You can eat something nutritious, but don’t overeat – this will add stress to the body.
It is strictly forbidden to consume alcohol before and after immersion in the font.
You should definitely go to the ice hole in shoes and warm clothes. You shouldn't be a hero and expose your body to cold shock right before diving into the water.
When undressing in the cold, you need to take off your clothes slowly: first, take off your outerwear, then gradually remove the remaining additional layers. Lastly, you need to take off your shoes, which should be non-slip to avoid injury.
Immersion in water should also be gradual, but short. Having entered the water up to the knee, you should carefully wash yourself. Ideally, stay in the water for about ten seconds, but not more than a minute. Submerging the entire head is undesirable, and for beginners it is even dangerous: a sharp cooling of the head can cause a spasm of the blood vessels of the brain and serious consequences.
After bathing, you need to quickly rub your body with a dry, hard towel and put on warm clothes made of natural fabrics, go indoors and drink a hot drink.
You can't rub yourself with snow after diving - you can get hypothermia.