Menopausal women who regularly swim in cold water report significant improvements to their physical and mental symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Post ...

Tipton and Harper both said that any benefits from cold-water immersion come from the body’s cold-shock response: the sudden ...

Cold water swimming has been popular for a while now (which is why you see so many swim robes around), but are the suggested benefits real? Find out what is fact and whether it’s right for you here… ...

These days it seems everyone is diving into the cold plunge trend, soaking in ice-cold water to reduce post-workout soreness, boost immunity, rev energy and more. But we're most intrigued by the ...

Watching the Baltimore Ravens play the Tennessee Titans in an NFL game in London recently in temperatures close to freezing, fans in the stadium must have felt cold, but the players must have felt ...

You can barley scroll Insta these days without stumbling across an idyllic early morning shot of a neoprene-clad woman pacing purposefully into a lake, or a snap of flushed-cheeked friends clutching ...

Sharon Prahl was 21 when death nearly took her. She was biking cross-country with a friend in 1986 when she hit a rough patch and flipped her bike, fracturing her skull and injuring her spine. In the ...

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People run into the freezing North Sea as part of the traditional New Year's day swim in coastal Scheveningen district of The Hague, Netherlands. Call it “Viking swimming,” “freezing plunges,” "polar ...

Ever wondered how the royalty get their workouts in? You probably imagine cardio routines in a tricked-out private gym, personal trainers galore, maybe some runs around the castle grounds or Pilates ...

Dr. Mark Harper recalls his first cold-water swim in the south of England 20 years ago. It was August, but the initial jolt from the plunge took his breath away. The shock to his system lasted a ...