Your body's first reaction to a plunge in chilly water is the "cold shock" response. Your heart rate jumps. Stress hormones spike. You gasp suddenly, and may hyperventilate. Your reward if you stay in ...

Your body's first reaction to a plunge in chilly water is the "cold shock" response. Your heart rate jumps. Stress hormones spike. You gasp suddenly, and may hyperventilate. Your reward if you stay in ...

Cold water does more than wake up the body. It wakes the mind, and the mind decides how the race goes just as much as the body, if not more so. Swimmers carry this belief because that first shock of ...

When the weather outside is frightful, a cold bath can be so delightful. Social media makes it seem like everyone and their grandma is cold plunging these days. Drake, Kim Kardashian, Kristen Bell and ...

This is especially true when you introduce water into the mix, which saps heat from our bodies more quickly than air. And while there's no single definition of cold swimming or plunging, the water ...