Fitness Facts's video: Benefits of Contrast Showers

The benefits of cold showers are endless. It has the power to decrease recovery time, increase fat loss, and improve cardiovascular health. Imagine recovering much faster than normal from your workouts. A simple technique to have you recovering faster, performing better, and, what? Burning more fat?! I’m giving you the top 5 reasons why you should be taking contrast showers! This type of therapy does not require ice baths. Instead of ice baths, you take both hot and cold showers. Reason - Contrast showers increases blood circulation to the muscles. Increased circulation to the muscles increases the excretion of cellular and metabolic waste from the muscles, and decreases the concentration of lactate, or lactic acid, in the blood. This detoxifies your body, and improves your immune system! Reason – Contrast showers reduce the recovery time needed to get your body back to full strength and power. A study compared athletes who did contrast showers and those who didn’t for 6 weeks. Those who did contrast showers had smaller reduction in overall strength and had faster restoration of strength and power than those who took regular hot showers. Reason – Contrast showers teaches you to be disciplined and have better willpower Standing under ice cold water requires a lot of willpower; willpower that can be translated to grinding out those last reps on a set, or putting in the long hours on a work project you’re on. Discipline is the key to success! Reason – Contrast showers gives you better skin and hair According to dermatology professionals, hot water dries out your skin, while cold water tightens your cuticles and pores, preventing them from getting clogged. Ice cold water can help our skin by preventing it from losing too many natural oils. And your hair gets the same benefit. Reason – Contrast showers help you to burn more body fat. Yes!! Your body has two types of fat, brown fat and white fat. The brown fat’s main purpose in the body is to generate heat and help keep your body keep up its core temperature! If you activate these brown fat cells, these little furnaces help to burn off white fat to keep your body warm!