Cold showers (and the SOLIT quarantine challenge: 30 days of cold showers) are becoming more and more popular, but what are the benefits of cold showers? We're going to tell you!

1. Cold showers give you energy

One of the most well-known benefits of cold showers is that they give you more energy. About 5 minutes after you have taken a nice cold shower, the feeling starts. You start breathing deeper, your heart starts beating faster and you feel the blood flowing through your body. Thanks to your heart beating faster, the blood supply to your brain improves. Because of this improved blood supply, you will immediately notice that you are more alert and 'awake' in the early morning. Put on your SOLIT socks after your cold shower and start the day extra strong in your shoes :).

2. Taking a cold shower helps you lose weight

It is scientifically proven that people who expose their bodies to cold conditions for several hours a day for a longer period of time produce more brown fat. This brown skin helps your body to warm up and stay warm. The more brown fat, the more you burn and the more kilos you lose. The increased blood circulation also ensures a faster metabolism.

Of course, you can't lose weight with just cold showers, but in addition to the right diet and exercise, it can certainly help! More information about losing weight? Read more on the website of the nutrition center

3. Cold showers improve your resistance

Physiological stress (short-term) and the body's adaptation to it is called hormesis. A cold shower has this hormetic effect. The shock of the cold water on your body stimulates the immune system. This causes an increased production of white blood cells. White blood cells help fight viruses. So you can definitely improve your weather with a cold shower.

4. Cold showers improve athletic performance

As you may know, cold showers and ice baths are things that top athletes have to believe in regularly. Many top athletes do this after a match, for example, to counteract fatigue and promote muscle recovery. This also means less muscle pain. The blood vessels constrict due to the cold water, then the blood supply starts. This causes the waste products in the muscles to be removed more quickly.

5. Smoother skin from cold showers

Furthermore, cold showers also have a positive effect on the skin. The blood vessels and muscles contract due to the cold water. This makes the skin tighter and smoother. In addition, cold water also ensures that your skin dries out less quickly.

Tips

Some tips to make that first step towards the cold shower a little easier are:

• Just do it, this may sound strange but doubting won't help you. Just try to do it.
• Keep breathing calmly. Of course, that is easier said than done, because your breathing increases due to the cold water. What can help is not to breathe in again immediately after exhaling, try to hold your breath. When you breathe calmly, the cold shower immediately becomes a lot easier.
• I turn the knob once. You may be tempted to turn the knob slowly towards cold. However, the shock effect of the cold water on your body is the purpose of the cold shower. When you gradually go from warm to cold, this has less effect.
• After your cold shower, put on a warm pair of SOLIT socks :)
• Start today!

You may think we're crazy, but this cold shower will make you feel stronger at the end of the month, KEEP IT UP!

P.s. If you're really good at cold showers, you can continue doing so after this month ;)!