How Cold Plunges Can Supercharge Your Day

Are you looking for a new hobby to add to your routine? In this episode of the Maximum Lawyer Podcast, Tyson talks about cold plunging and the various benefits of it.

There is a lot of buzz around cold plunges. It is gaining a lot of traction and professional athletes are beginning to include it in their routines. Cold plunges do have a ton of benefits including improving your mood, strengthening your immune system, helping with inflammation and minimizing stress. Cold plunges can provide energy all day so you don't have to rely on coffee.

Tyson talks about the different ways you can create a cold plunge, which includes his very own creation of turning a chest freezer into a cold plunge tank. Adding a temperature controller onto a tank is important because it will freeze the water to a certain degree and then turn off. 

When starting to implement cold plunges into your daily routine, it is important to start with small increments of time. Do not just jump in and stay in the tank for 30 or 40 minutes. Start slow with 5 minutes and gradually increase the time as you continue to use it.

Listen in to learn more about cold plunges!

Episode Highlights:

• 2:07 Explanation of how to convert a chest freezer into a cold plunge tank
• 6:20 The various benefits of cold plunging
• 9:05 Starting with shorter durations
• 9:51 Tyson advises listeners to consult with their doctors before trying cold plunges

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Transcripts: How Cold Plunges Can Supercharge Your Day

Speaker 1 (00:00:01) - Run your law firm the right way. The right way. This is the Maximum lawyer podcast. Podcast. Your hosts, Jim Hacking and Tyson Metrics. Let's partner up and maximize your firm. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (00:00:24) - Hey, it's Tyson and I'm excited to join you once again for a quick episode. And today we're going to talk about cold plunges. I asked you all to text me to let me know if you wanted me to cover it, and you said yes. So that's what we're going to do before we take the plunge into today's episode, I do want to tell you about something special that we have for our listeners, and that is stage one of our roadmap course, Maximum lawyer and minimum Time. This is something that Jim and I have spent a long time on, a lot of time on, and we want to give it to you for free. This is something we give to our guild members. We give them the entire course, maximum lawyer and minimum time, and we give it to all of our guild members for free whenever they join.

Speaker 2 (00:01:11) - But we're going to give you stage one for free If you text stage 1 to 3 145019260. Just text stage one to that number and you will get it for free. You're not going to want to miss this, so hopefully you will take advantage of that. All right. So let's jump into this. So why the buzz around cold plunges? I'm sure that those of you that follow me on social media, you've seen me post about it quite a bit. I'm down to 45 degrees, which is really cold, I can tell you that. But I'm sure you've seen it from anywhere from Tony Robbins to professional athletes. You're seeing this gain a lot of traction. And I don't know if it's just me that because I do cold plunges and I post about it, but I know I've been getting a lot of ads about it lately, so I don't know if it's just that or if that. It's just something that is definitely, definitely something that a lot of people are doing these days. But there are a lot of scientific studies on this.

Speaker 2 (00:02:07) - They can confirm that cold immersion can benefit anywhere from your mood, your immune system, your metabolic rate. But it's one of those things where, you know, there's a guy named Wim Hof. He's known as the Iceman, and he really puts it best feeling is understanding because people ask all the time like, why do you do it? Why do you do it? Why I do it? And I send them a list of all the all of the reasons that I do it because there's a lot of great benefits to it. But it's it's really until you've done it, until you've felt it, it's hard to explain. It really is. But I want to talk about my personal setup. And that's what kind of started people texting because they want to hear what my my personal setup is. Because I did do a DIY version. You can buy the more expensive ones if you want, but I will tell you I found great solution. My wife Amy, she found it on YouTube. I was going to go buy one of those, you know, big plastic tubs and fill it with ice.

Speaker 2 (00:03:02) - And she said, Are you really going to want to go buy ice all the time? And I was like, Well, not really. She's like, Well, I was watching videos on this and I converted a chest freezer and I converted it into my own little cold plunge tank So here's what I did. I found one for I think I paid 150 or $175 on Facebook Marketplace. I found it and it was in good shape. I bought the it was nine cubic feet. I was specifically looking for that. I think maybe in hindsight I'd go a little bit bigger. But it just depends on your body size, too, you know, I'm not I'm not super tall. I'm not super big. So it's nine cubic feet. Works for me almost perfectly. Just one, maybe just a little bit bigger so I could move around just a little bit more. But it really does work for me, what I've got. So I would stay. I would go nine cubic feet or above. If you're bigger, I'd definitely, definitely go bigger than nine cubic feet, but it's really kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (00:03:56) - The key to this is after I get the chest freezer, which find one, let's get a drain plug at the bottom in case you've got to drain it. You can also we have a we have a swimming pool, so we also have a cover that when you close it, if it rains, you get water on it. And so we've got a device you can put on top that drains the water. So if you got something like that, you can drain the water that way too. If it doesn't have a drain hole. But it's best if you have a drain hole, you can just empty it. But it's something I put my garage, I went through and I actually caulked it and went through and I sealed it. I took some of that. The guy that takes any cover up, the bottom of a boat, whatever that stuff is, and sealed it. I put some of that, seal it on there as well. It's kind of that spray sealant. So I caulked it and then did some of the spray sealant on it as well.

Speaker 2 (00:04:38) - You don't have to do that yourself, but it's something I did just as an extra precaution. I didn't want to leak. But the real key to this thing, the absolute key, is an ink bird temperature controller. And you want to get the ones that you can go with the probe that goes into water. So it's the rubber one, not the plastic one. And you want to make sure it's the one because I made the mistake where it ordered the wrong one first and it did. The one that only heats and not doesn't cool. You want the one that actually stays on where the freezer stays on until it gets to the set temperature and it turns off. That's that's the key to this, which is really nice. So it doesn't freeze all the time. The water, the freezer is not going non-stop. What happens is once it reaches optimal temperature and I have it set where it can go up two degrees, you can change it to whatever settings you want. You can have. One degree, you can have a ten degree, ten degrees, but I have it set for two degrees and it can go up to two degrees and then it starts cooling again.

Speaker 2 (00:05:29) - And that is the real key to all of it, is having that that ink bird. And then to keep the water clear, I just bought in which a store, a pet store and bought a a fish tank water filter and it keeps the water clear. It keeps it bacteria free. And so it is it's a nice little tool. And then as I add a little thing, we have a this extra because we have a pool with this chlorine little device that sits on top of the water that we don't need. We just have it. Someone I think someone gave it to us. So every once in a while I'll take a little chlorine tap, throw it in that and sit in the water for a few minutes. I don't leave it in there because it's just too much chlorine. But I'll just leave it there just a little bit, give it a little bit of chlorine and then it helps keep the water fresh, too. So a couple pro tips on that. So let's talk a little bit about the science, though, because this is something that people have wondered quite a bit about.

Speaker 2 (00:06:20) - And it's it can there's a lot of things that you can do or that a lot of things that cold plunging will really help you when it comes to the benefits. The main thing and this is something that most people probably overlook is inflammation is a really bad big problem when it comes to our bodies and it'll decrease that inflammation. It helps constrict those blood vessels and helps reduce the inflammation. It'll give you an endorphin rush. And so that cold stimulates that release of those endorphins, which is that the body's natural painkiller, which is great, helps improve your sleep and your mood. All right. That's another one. Stress reduction. It helps you with your stress management. It can help you in injury recovery. It can boost your testosterone, and it can also help promote lymphatic drainage, regulate hormones, accelerate your metabolism. There's also some some mental benefits other than the stress reduction. It helps you with mental resilience, which is really interesting. So that consistent, it's got to be consistent exposure, though. So consistent exposure to cold temperatures can help you build your mental toughness discipline.

Speaker 2 (00:07:24) - So that ongoing practice helps teach the mind to get comfortable in a state of discomfort, which that allows you to improve your mind's ability to deal with stress, which is also great. I will say this with my current setup, I always unplug it. I don't want to I don't want to be electrocuted. I'm sure some of you are probably wondering, oh my gosh, you get in there when it's plugged in. Never, never do I do it. I don't even put my water or my hand in it to test the water. I keep it unplugged whenever I get it. So that is another tip. I would say don't get in it unless you unplug it if you're going to do your own. But maybe you just want to buy one of the expensive ones and you can do that as well. Or you can buy one of the cheap ones and put ice in it. But either way, I can tell you personally, you know, this is anecdotal, anecdotal. I did tell you some of what the actual science says, but I can just tell you, I get this amazing feeling and this is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (00:08:13) - Is it that energy boost that you get last throughout the day? Many of you coffee drinkers just go research this research on your own. Compare the coffee intake to cold, plunging and all the benefits that you're really wanting without the negative effects you're going to get from cold plunging and you're not going to get it from the coffee intake. So just keep that in mind. That's something that to consider. But when it comes to temperatures, if you if you want to start doing this, you want to start cold, plunging, you're going to want to start probably around 60 degrees or higher. 60 degrees to me didn't sound like it was very cold, but I'll tell you, it was very cold. I started to move my process. I went start at 60 degrees, started to move it down gradually. And then once I got down to 55, I said, okay, here's what I'm going to do. Once I can sit in here for 5 to 10 minutes, I will start to go down from there.

Speaker 2 (00:09:05) - So I got when I was at 55, I got it up to ten minutes and then I said, okay, I'm going to start bumping this thing down. And then now, now that I'm in the 40s, I tell myself, if I can get up to three minutes, then I'll start to go down from there. I'm not going to sit for 5 or 10 minutes for that low in that type of temperature. I know there's several people on the Internet that you'll hear. They'll sit in there for in the 30s and the 40s, low 40s. But I'm going to tell you, 45 degrees is super cold. I remember whenever I first felt 48 degrees because I went from 50 down to 48 and it just it was so much colder. It's kind of crazy how much colder it feels to you and maybe may just be psychological. Who knows? But 45 degrees is really cold. So start, start slow. And also make sure make sure if you have any if you have any health issues, check with your doctor first.

Speaker 2 (00:09:51) - Make sure you know, as we're lawyers, check with your doctor first. Don't. That's my little disclaimer. Don't just jump in if you think you've got any health issues that might be affected by it. All right. So whether you're interested in the thrill of doing it, the health benefits or just the challenge, I like the challenge of it. I do recommend that you give it a try. And if nothing else, your regular shower. If you want to just want to try that, go with a cold shower. You can do that as well. But that wraps up today's episode. Make sure you subscribe and check in with us next week. But until then, remember. Imperfect action is better than perfect in action. Stay tuned for next week's episode. See you.

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