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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Cold training
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2014, 01:32:41 am »
When I was in bootcamp, sometimes they would wake us up out of nowhere on a cold night/early am and make us go down to the docks on the lake and jump in and out and then stand at attention over and over again. I think they called them "in and out drills" ( lol :) ) They say it is supposed to be good for your heart. Nowadays, if I turn the shower on cold instead of hot on accident, I about have a heart attack!  :) I was a cub scout when I was real young, we did those "polar bear" swims, that was actually pretty cool. I liked it, after you got used to being in the water, it wasn't so bad.
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair