One of the best ways to establish a cold therapy routine is with cold plunges in a cold water immersion tank. This type of therapy has been used for decades now to decrease pain, improve recovery times, and provide an overall boost in health.
Other methods of cold therapy include cold showers, adding ice into bathtubs, and whole-body cryotherapy using cold air or gas.
Plunging in a Cold Tub Can Benefit Your Overall Health
Shorter Muscle Recovery Times
Cold plunging causes blood vessels to constrict, which helps reduce inflammation and promotes a healthy cardiovascular system.
Muscles and joints swell after hard workouts, slowing muscle recovery and increasing injury risk. Cold tub plunging post-exercise can quickly reduce swelling and inflammation, lowering the likelihood of injury and soreness.
Enhances the Immune System
Cold plunges help boost the immune system by stimulating the lymphatic system. This means bacteria and bodily toxins are flushed away from every area of the body.
Harmful microbes and cell waste are washed away, clearing your body's systems of any impurities to boost immunity.
Improves Cardiovascular Circulation
Cold plunging, sometimes called cold water immersion (CWI), promotes better blood pressure that improves the blood flow to vital organs.
CWI trains your heart to pump blood more efficiently to the organs that matter most, enhancing the delivery of vital nutrients and oxygen.
Boosts Happiness Levels
Cold bath therapy or cold plunges also help support mental health. Scientific research studies reaching back almost 15 years have found that cold showers can be an effective method of curbing depression symptoms.
Studies have also found that when integrated into a well-planned lifestyle routine, cold showers helped boost the effectiveness of mood-lifting prescription medications.
How Can a Cold Plunge Improve Mood?
Taking a cold plunge or cold water immersion alerts the parasympathetic nervous system to start producing mood-enhancing neurotransmitters.
This helps ease anxiety and stress, along with providing a calming and relaxing sensation. For example, one study on swimmers found that winter swimming can be a useful tool for enhancing moods.
In the study, it was revealed that four months of cold water swimming resulted in subjects feeling more energetic and positive than those who hadn’t been cold plunging in the same period.
Aids Weight Loss Efforts
Ignite new energy and boost your metabolism by taking a cold plunge. More research is discovering the links between cold plunge therapy for enhancing the human body's natural abilities.
Health and wellness clinics have been using cold plunges or cold therapy to promote higher energy levels and metabolism, and now it's possible to get these same benefits from the comfort and convenience of your home or office.
Quickens the Body’s Cooling Response
Additional benefits of cold plunging include improved elasticity of blood vessels, along with shortened exercise recovery times.
You can also get a rapid body temperature reduction after high-intensity workouts in the heat, which helps improve your body's cooling response with more practice.
Reduces Pain and Swelling
A commonly known term for injury treatment is RICE—rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Taking a cold plunge follows these same principles of injury treatment.
Beyond injury treatments, cold plunges for the reduction of pain and swelling can also deliver soothing relief for those who suffer from inflammatory skin conditions like acne and rosacea.
Calms Itchy Skin
By promoting exfoliation of the skin, cold therapy removes unwanted layers of dead skin cells and stimulates new cell growth for smooth skin that's less itchy and dry.
How Can I Start Cold Plunging at Home?
Getting the health benefits of cold plunging right in your home is easy now and no longer something only pro athletes and expensive spas offer.
RENU Therapy builds its cold plunge tubs 100% in the USA, and they're perfectly sized for your home or small business, inside or out.
So how can you get started with cold plunging at home?
Begin with a Cold Shower Routine
Let's be honest—some people are less than enthusiastic about the prospect of dunking into frigid waters on purpose. And, until your body has been trained to withstand cold plunging, starting by diving right in, maybe tough to handle for many folks.
Instead, it's better to ease into the full cold plunge routine by starting with cold showers or cold water swims on a routine basis.
Start by standing in a cold shower for 15-30 seconds and increase your time as you become acclimated to withstanding cold therapy. This will start to help you realize some of the benefits, like a boost in energy and mood, without too much of a shock to your system.
Of course, if you have any pre-existing health conditions, be sure to consult with your medical provider before starting a cold shower or cold plunging routine.
How Long Should You Cold Plunge in a RENU Therapy Tub?
If you're first beginning with cold plunging in your RENU ice bath therapy tub, it's important to keep sessions under ten minutes. Also, be sure to first consult your doctor on the amount of time that's safe for you to spend in a cold plunge tub.
For some people, more cold exposure may lead to an increase in cold water endurance, but only through a strict routine with close monitoring. Most people find ten minutes plenty to gain all of the health benefits cold plunging can provide.
Better Health with a RENU Therapy CWI Tub
RENU Therapy is a cold plunge tub manufacturer that builds its products 100% in the USA.
We also provide the best warranty in the industry and will do whatever it takes to ensure 100% customer satisfaction!
There are multiple design options available, so you can install a cold plunge tub whenever you choose, either inside or outside your home or office.
Each of our cold immersion tubs boasts a world-class design that enhances the aesthetic appeal of any home or interior space.
To start benefiting from cold plunge therapy any time, contact our team at RENU Therapy today!
