Ice Bath
Technique
Training autonomic emotional regulation to reduce anger and stress responses to everyday psychological stressors
"I started doing ice baths some time ago. After the ice bath, my anger response is flat. There was an immediate automatic downregulation of my autonomic emotional response to a psychological stressor — somebody honking at me — that was trained and generalize..."
More source quotes
Hot-cold contrast after workouts
"I'm going to do a steam, then I'm gonna do an ice bath... I'm really looking forward to that... I feel like I get so energized by that and I do it whenever I can, probably almost every day."
Alternating with a hot sauna
"Then we'd go into this ice bath right outside, and I was trying to impress Rick, so I was staying in the ice bath as long as I could, then back into the sauna, and it feels like room temperature because you were just in this ice bath."