So you have all heard the standard just eat well and exercise advice.
Well what if there was another more effective way to Cut Body Fat? And I mean really effective.
I bring you 'Cold Exposure.' To see the expert on the subject Ray Cronise talk about it on youtube: Click Here
But if you want the nutshell version of this approach, basically what it involves is lowering your core body temperature through Ice Baths or Cold Showers. How does this help? Well basically, when you lower your body temperature your body does everything it can to warm itself back up again. This requires a lot of energy. The process we are leveraging in this instance is called Homeostasis and refers to the need for the body to keep a constant internal temperature despite changes in the external environment. Tim Ferriss' book 'The Four Hour Body' also explains this concept in great detail and I highly recommend this read.
So how much does having ice baths actually help? To trial this (Which I have done on more than one occasion) I measured fat loss over one week. Then made no other changes but to incorporate 5 ice baths of 20 minutes in length the following week. The difference? I lost 7X as much fat!!! I was losing on average 0.5cm around the waist which in one week increased to 3.5cm. (Waist circumference is a fantastic measurement of body fat reduction.)
As we all know a sample size of 1 is hardly scientific; so I trialed cold exposure with some of my students, and every time we saw a significant increase in cms lost per week around the waist, ie Body Fat loss.
Ice baths were significantly more effective then cold showers, though cold showers tended to increase fat loss on average by about 1cm a week. Keep this change in place for 2 months and that is still a significant amount of extra body fat that you can cut.
Here is a photo I took just prior to one of my ice baths:
Unfortunately I need to get 4 bags of ice to get the temperature nice and low in my bath, but most will only need 2 bags. 8 Degrees Celsius is the temperature I aim for.
Until next time, Keep Cutting Body Fat, Jack
Well what if there was another more effective way to Cut Body Fat? And I mean really effective.
I bring you 'Cold Exposure.' To see the expert on the subject Ray Cronise talk about it on youtube: Click Here
But if you want the nutshell version of this approach, basically what it involves is lowering your core body temperature through Ice Baths or Cold Showers. How does this help? Well basically, when you lower your body temperature your body does everything it can to warm itself back up again. This requires a lot of energy. The process we are leveraging in this instance is called Homeostasis and refers to the need for the body to keep a constant internal temperature despite changes in the external environment. Tim Ferriss' book 'The Four Hour Body' also explains this concept in great detail and I highly recommend this read.
So how much does having ice baths actually help? To trial this (Which I have done on more than one occasion) I measured fat loss over one week. Then made no other changes but to incorporate 5 ice baths of 20 minutes in length the following week. The difference? I lost 7X as much fat!!! I was losing on average 0.5cm around the waist which in one week increased to 3.5cm. (Waist circumference is a fantastic measurement of body fat reduction.)
As we all know a sample size of 1 is hardly scientific; so I trialed cold exposure with some of my students, and every time we saw a significant increase in cms lost per week around the waist, ie Body Fat loss.
Ice baths were significantly more effective then cold showers, though cold showers tended to increase fat loss on average by about 1cm a week. Keep this change in place for 2 months and that is still a significant amount of extra body fat that you can cut.
Here is a photo I took just prior to one of my ice baths:
Unfortunately I need to get 4 bags of ice to get the temperature nice and low in my bath, but most will only need 2 bags. 8 Degrees Celsius is the temperature I aim for.
Until next time, Keep Cutting Body Fat, Jack
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