The electrified nipples of today's comic are poking fun at some of the health-focused things that Joe Rogan advocates, like the cold plunge. Even though I'm poking fun at it, it is something that I do every day before I exercise. I've been exercising six days a week for over ten years, and I've only dabbled in cold exposure until now. At this point, I've been doing cold exposure every day before I work out for two months, and this is the perfect time of year for it because the water coming out of the tap is between 38 and 42 degrees in the morning.
Some people will argue that you need it closer to freezing for it to be effective, but I'll take my advice on this from Andrew Huberman. If he says anything coming out of your shower at around 50 degrees Fahrenheit or below is effective, I believe him. Some devices keep the water circulating to prevent you from developing a thermal barrier and standing in a freezing shower does the same. If I sit in the tub while it fills with cold water, it does not move around me very much, and it is easily bearable, but water at the same temperature coming out of the shower saps the heat right out of me.
In the time I've been doing this, I've noticed that every time I do it, it sucks profoundly, and while I'm in there, it is always just as miserable. That part doesn't change, but what has changed is how quickly I recover when I come out. When I first began, I didn't feel like I began to warm up for the first twenty minutes after. After two months, When I finish the three minutes and come out, I feel warm again within a few minutes. I still have goosebumps, my nipples could cut glass, and all of my hair is standing up, but I feel warm and like my movements are not restricted by feeling cold as they used to. Something else I've noticed that helps is if you trash talk the cold water like Randy Savage in Spiderman and tell it that it's going nowhere, and you got it for three minutes of pain.
Wednesday will also feature a comic with Joe Rogan, and then Friday will return to Indie and introduce a new character.