“I'm glad it's working for you - how much money would it take to get you to go to the gym and do strength training three times a week? :)”
I boulder 3x a week and do weight training twice a week and flexibility once a week. My cardio suffers but I intend to swim to rectify that :) Same - I wouldn’t do it for the money. I do it out of the horror of how quickly your body turns on you with age, when you don’t take care of it. Volunteering in elderly care helped me make pivotal life decisions. Huda Masood +91 9886796967 On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:42, Charles Haynes <charles.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 22:17, Huda Masood <hudamas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Can you convince yourself that you receive 500 dollars worth of health, >> motivation and resilience benefits to withstand 180 seconds of 12-15 >> centigrade water every. Single. Day. for a week? >> > > Could I? Certainly. But I've looked into the purported benefits of it and > I find the evidence unconvincing. Certainly not to the tune of $3500/wk in > benefit. > > >> My assumption is that you’ll decide it isn’t worth it, even for USD 500. >> > > I think it would be worth it if the health benefits were sufficiently > supported by evidence, but they aren't. There are a number of studies > claiming health benefits for various low level stressors that increase > cortisol, but the long term results are mixed, and I prefer to use strength > training instead. It's REALLY not clear to me that there would be any > incremental benefits. > > >> My motivation for cold showers (6 months of pure agony, I’ll add) is >> twofold and deeply personal -watching my father die -cancer- and be >> miserable about being cold, and my own mental health benefits enormously >> from it (it is the hardest thing I can do in a day, everything else is a >> piece of cake). But no amount of money would incentivise me to do this. >> > > I'm glad it's working for you - how much money would it take to get you to > go to the gym and do strength training three times a week? :) > > — Charles >
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