The Cold Shower ‘hack’ That Can Help You Develop a Warrior Mindset

Want to cultivate a warrior’s mindset? Do you want to become more formidable, more impressive and more efficient?

Then a simple ‘hack’ that is a good place to start cold showers. A cold shower is actually quite useful and can allow you to better your health and fitness while simultaneously fortifying your mind and honing your discipline.

Here’s why taking a cold shower is such an honest easy and simple step for anyone…

Benefits of Cold Showers

• Alertness

Many folks start their day feeling groggy, tired and miserable. This is not how a ‘warrior’ should begin their mornings and it’s certainly not conducive to productivity making it less likely to be a positive day ahead.

This is one reason that a cold shower can make such a huge difference. Cold showers will trigger a release of adrenaline and norepinephrine, which will accelerate your heart rate and encourage blood flow to the brain.

This can quickly wake you up and increase your energy levels so you can start your day mentally in a way that’s productive.

• Discipline

The warrior mindset is all about having the discipline to sometimes do things that you simply do not want to. The Warrior Mindset is about having the power to force yourself to work once you actually just want to relax. It’s about having the power to ignore the desire to eat snacks from the kitchen and it’s about going to the gym when you’re keen to sleep slightly longer and hit ‘snooze’.

Being able to step into freezing cold water takes a ton of discipline. Keeping yourself under there takes even more self-control.

I look at it this way: if you've managed the art of self-control to face standing under a freezing shower, then think how much easier it will be to make yourself do some extra work this evening? Or to tidy the house within the morning?

Another advantage of taking cold showers is that they put you in a particular frame of mind. Did you know that when Hugh Jackman was first cast as Wolverine in X-Men, he used cold showers to help spark him into the feral mindset of the character?

• Health

Believe it or not, cold showers are actually good for you.

Not only do I enjoy the increased blood flow and application that we've already described; but taking cold showers also are going to help strengthen your heart, toughen up your system and even increase sperm count for men!

Taking warm baths and showers might actually be bad news for men as they theoretically create a reduction in testosterone while cold on the other hand is known to increase and improve both, testosterone and sperm count, essentially making you more masculine.

And while it probably seems surprising that a cold shower can enhance your system, perhaps a more ‘two in one’ reason is that cold showers force your system to work harder – kind of a workout!

Oh, and did you know you can burn calories by taking cold showers? That’s because a cold shower will increase your metabolism and burn energy as your body tries to stay warm.