Forget wild swimming - we're bareskin running now
Hof hinges his advocacy of cold living on a 2011 study from Radboud University, which found that the sympathetic nervous and immune systems can be influenced by short-term training programmes, such as ditching your kit for a cold walk. Plus, “in colder temperatures your heart doesn’t have to work as hard, you sweat less, and expend less energy, all of which means you can exercise more efficiently,” according to Dr Adam Tenforde, an assistant professor of sports medicine at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network. Bareskin exercisers need to build up their resistance to the cold in the same...
Source: telegraph.co.uk