Am I the only one not submerging myself in ice water every day?

[Mandalakia]

I follow a lot of health, fitness and wellbeing accounts on Instagram and everyone seems to be caught up in this trend. Basically, you fill a bath with ice water, plunge yourself in for 5 minutes, then jump out looking energised and renewed. Some people are even lowering themselves into frozen lakes. You also need to film yourself doing this and tag Wim Hof every single time.

I actually started browsing for a foldable ice bath on Amazon before coming to my senses and remembering it takes me half hour to get in a heated pool let alone a bucket of ice.

@AIMD
"I’ve not seen weight mentioned as a reason for doing cold water stuff in many places and many sea swimmers etc have a cuppa and came straight after " Grin indeed! (sorry, gets coat...)

I remember being at a place with an ice plunge pool with dd when she was about 3. She tore her hand out of mine, ran, and jumped in before I could catch her (she was a fast runner!). Her poor wee face! (I got her out in seconds but not before she was up to her shoulders). She's 13 and still remembers it. Brrrr....

It was a craze in Georgian times. Some old houses have a plunge bath. Nothing new under the sun and all that.

@Ozgirl75 thank you for the laugh!

Oooh no. No. No thank you, please. [chucks more wood onto the fire]

Nah, fuck that. Seems to be a middle-aged thing all over the place, though. Remember when Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall used to be fun to watch? Now he's all preachy and ice water and kombucha and trying to outdo Michael Moseley in the Boring As FUCK sweepstakes!

When we had a caravan, I loved a good swim in the sea, even when it was cold, but you'd have to pay me a lot of money, to get an ice bath 😨

Bollocks to that!! My barely warm shower is bad enough. There's no way on the gods given earth I'm torturing myself by sitting in a bath of freezing cold water and ice

I have never seen so many people in the sea this winter, half my friends seem to be cold water swimmers (or bobbers) now. Not me though 🥶🥶