Cold Shower Challenge

Overview

Highlights

This experience is for everyone. You can either spectate and cheer on your favourite participants on OR you can join in and freeze your nuts off with the rest of us. For 10-15 minutes each week we will get together virtually to support each other through this 4-week cold shower challenge to help promote our overall physical and mental wellness. The first 10 minutes will be focused on our breathing techniques and then we turn the taps down to cold and submerge ourselves into our cold showers leveraging off of each other for support to power through the discomfort the cold water brings. Our targets for each week are as follows:
Week 1: 30-second cold shower
Week 2: 1-minute cold shower
Week 3: 2-minute cold shower
Week 4: 3-minute cold shower
Week 5 onwards: 4-minute cold shower



The benefits of cold showers are undeniable and have shown to help with:
1) Reducing skin disorders like acne or itchy skin.
2) Reducing depression: Taking a cold shower for up to 5 minutes, 2 to 3 times per week, was shown to help relieve symptoms of depression.
3) Increasing circulation: Cold temperatures trigger the circulatory system to reduce inflammation and can help prevent cardiovascular disease.
4) Reducing muscle soreness post-workout.
5) Boosting weight loss: Your brown fat cells, which is the good fat your body carries, generate heat when your body is exposed to cold and this burns off the toxic bad fat cells your body stores.
6) Fighting off common illnesses: Leukocytes help fight infection in the body. The shock of cold water stimulates the production of leukocytes in your bloodstream. This means that taking cold showers can help your resistance to common illnesses, like colds and the flu.

Your reward:
Each time you successfully complete the shower challenge every month (without missing any sessions) you will be awarded 1 entry on the virtual Man Ex "Spin the wheel" for every $20 donation you made, with a chance to win a Ball Wash Hamper (valued at $79 including the cost of shipping) sponsored by Ballsy. The vitual wheel spin will be broadcast live on Instagram & Facebook at the end of each month. The more you donate the more name entries you will get on the wheel increasing your chances to win.