My Affordable Cold Plunge Approach | The Tim Ferriss Show

My Affordable Cold Plunge Approach | The Tim Ferriss Show | Random Show

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10 ай бұрын

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Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show!
We discuss affordable luxuries, creative offsites, brain stimulation, OCD, ADHD, tokenizing humans via a bonding curve, cold therapy on a budget, phone data strategies for international travelers, Toshiba's low-carb rice cooker, and much, much more!
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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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@timferriss 9 ай бұрын

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@SimpleMan-rx1uo 5 ай бұрын

If I am doing the 30/30/30 method and I want to incorporate cold plunges in the morning as well, should I do the cold plunge as the last thing I do (after breakfast, treadmill and shower) or should it be the first thing I do (before breakfast treadmill and shower)? I have heard that I shouldn't do a cold plunge after strength training, and I am wondering if the same is true of doing 30 minutes on the treadmill in the morning. I appreciate your input.

@worthy81 9 ай бұрын

Buy a 24 pack of small waters put them in your freezer, chuck them in the pod, then return to freezer when finished.

@fncr070 9 ай бұрын

Doesn’t work. You need 100 of them to get to 70 degrees

@outtrigger 8 ай бұрын

dont do that

@ndndndnnduwjqams 5 ай бұрын

You need more ice than that

@worthy81 5 ай бұрын

@@ndndndnnduwjqams no you don't I live in the UK. Enough with the bull dude, just chill

@irontruck6122 19 күн бұрын

🤡 u ever tired it? U know how long it takes to refreeze 24 bottles? U know how long it take to cool with the surface area of bottles vs ice cubes 😅

@TylerLatsha 9 ай бұрын

Tim, i was freezing five gallon bucket ice cubes in my chest freezer to later cool down my water in a pod just like the one that you recently got. Then i switched to a chilled water system.. basically you could get a chiller and have two hoses inside your pod at all times. I definitely recommend acquiring a water chiller to chill the water rather than using ice. It’s more efficient and no storage required for ice. I use hydrogen peroxide to keep it sterile, clean the filter once a month and I replace the water at same time. Cheers!

@mikeyj1983 9 ай бұрын

Care to share more information on the chilled water system? Did you buy a complete system such as The Ice Pod or something else?

@RoninBeaver 5 ай бұрын

I’ve got the cold pod, it’s impressed me more than I though it would. Had it for about a year, here is the rundown on how it works best for me. - Paired it with a small chest freezer to make ice blocks (plastic containers) for daily plunges. - Using it daily keeps the temperature fairly low so that after twenty minutes with two ice blocks thrown in the water is in the mid to upper 40s. - Create a way to drain using PVC to garden hose connections, I forget the exact size but I built a drain method out of things from Home Depot. - Get a separate firepit cover to better insulate it from the sun, I use the included cover and then cover it all with a $40 round firepit cover that both protects it and keeps an extra layer between the sun and it as it’s outside. As Tim said, I’m super impressed with the cold pod. All in I’m about $280, if anyone wants a cheap cold plunge option that works pretty well, go with the cold pod.

@meowmix1569 Ай бұрын

98 gallon trash can with a ozone generate to airstone an a chiller. 3-400 and specific temps

@rapajaro 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Tim, just today I was looking for some solution for the ice baths when I saw similar solutions at Amazon Spain, but was unsure if this was a go, few hours later you post this video!

@MichaelMassie 9 ай бұрын

I have one. Using an aquarium filter and spa chlorine to keep it clean, and DIY ice blocks (using Tupperware bowls) to cool it. Works great.

@Gooz-B 9 ай бұрын

Do you have a link for the filter and chlorine?

@DanDan-os6hd 6 ай бұрын

Chlorine is really bad for your skin. Definitely do not want your body in that daily. Go the salt water route, just better for everything.

@denkanator Ай бұрын

@@DanDan-os6hd what's the salt water route? just chuck sea salt in like it's a salt bath and that will stop it from getting bacteria?;

@WyattKing. 7 ай бұрын

Love this

@Christian-vc5qv 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for validating that excuse for me. Mine gets gross every time. Does the oxygen methode work for keeping it clean

@cimarronMC 7 ай бұрын

I havent tried this stuff, but you could use frozen water bottles and big icemolds as a solution for reusable ice. Im thinking when i grt a cold plunge im going to make my own with a more sturdy barrel/trough. Im not too worried about it getting cold enough as it does get really hot here in the summer all the other times of the year are very cold for me, i actually worry more of the water becoming frozen solid

@adeletaylor4327 9 ай бұрын

I have one, it’s fab. Basically a large cool bag but so good.

@DanDan-os6hd 6 ай бұрын

How do you get yours cold? How cold? Thanks!

@coreymoney4879 Ай бұрын

When I lived in North Dakota I would run the bath water cold and then throw 7 trays of ice in. In the winter I got the temp down to about 44 degrees

@FoxStrength_Performance 4 ай бұрын

Get colder, go faster!

@jeremycain5482 9 ай бұрын

I use a garden hose like a shower. Free.

@simini1837 9 ай бұрын

Great comment 😂

@jameslittleton5156 9 ай бұрын

Its been over 100° for 30+ days where i live. Garden hose method is like a sauna lol

@MrPAULONEAL 5 ай бұрын

You could get ice cube molds if you have a deep freezer.

@BrittanyKellyTV 9 ай бұрын

This is literally in my Amazon cart and I have been debating whether or not to get it. This video was perfectly timed for me.

@cimarronMC 7 ай бұрын

It seems like it works well, though it still might be better to get something more sturdy from tractor supply or home Depot for the same price

@donaldberry4181 9 ай бұрын

Even this is too complicated and you’ll have to pay for bags of ice which is $10 a plunge. Get a 70 to 100 gallon trashcan and a small of chest freezers. Freeze buckets of ice chop them up with a hatchet, be sure to wear goggles because you will get ice chips in your face, I have been doing this for three years. Nothing to break super cheap 32 1/2° water every time.

@ryanm6247 8 ай бұрын

Where do you get your buckets from? Do you cut through the bucket too? If so they’d have to be disposable

@donaldberry4181 8 ай бұрын

I use orange home depot buckets. Place them in the water and they loosen up pretty quickly and the ice slides out. It takes 48+ hours for them to freeze solid. You don't want this. It will rupture the buckets and be difficult to chop up. Catch them at 24 hours and there will be ice but the cores will still be liquid. Easy to break up and won't expand enough to ruin your buckets.@@ryanm6247

@denkanator Ай бұрын

the problem with trashcans is they are not insulated. so they loose heat a lot quicker and it takes more ice to cool them down. these ice baths have a bunch of insulation. so you should be able to keep the water fairly cold all the time. and then just top it up with more ice before you use it and you can buy an ice machine or just use water bottles instead of freezing buckets of water every day. less hastle

@Sl33zytheclown 7 ай бұрын

I was about to buy it. But when they called it a trash bag. Hahaha. I remembered I have a kiddie pool. That'll be my cold plunge. I'll keep my 169. But great for apartments and traveling. So there is something to this.

@PlitePlite-wv3nn 9 ай бұрын

Ferris fast 1st

@CliffYates 9 ай бұрын

This seems like an economical answer with the benefit of not having an eyesore of a contraption we only use 1 minute a day

@ablestationfoxtrot8037 9 ай бұрын

Hmmmmm

@josh2676 7 ай бұрын

why not just use the bathtub in your bathroom and use frozen water bottles?

@02bcurtis 6 ай бұрын

doing it daily requires ice. Even (2) bags per use, at $1/bag that's 2 dollars a day = $14/week = $728/year. I'm sure ice is more expensive, my point is buy a good quality cold plunge and pay it off over time if you can. 3 yrs of tims idea costs $2,184 -- and his method isn't even technically a cold plunge bc of how NOT COLD the water gets

@thetranscendedman 9 ай бұрын

idk there are tons of companies making these cheap plunges and they don't seem that economical. for the base tub, sure it's a hundred bucks or so. but if you have to buy a chiller, ice maker, or ice from the gas station that adds up very quickly. especially for how often you might want to do it. a DIY used chest freezer is a few hundred bucks and will last years of stable temperature. you can also re-use it if you ever decide that cold plunging isn't for you anymore.

@LeahB451 9 ай бұрын

Yup. and a small pump to empty out the water is cheap.

@cimarronMC 7 ай бұрын

Yeah that's the thing I know I could go to home Depot or tractor supply and get a high quality trough/barrel for around the same price.

@MidlifeCredo 8 ай бұрын

Is there a reason people don’t just fill their bathtub with water and ice? 🧐

@cimarronMC 7 ай бұрын

The problem with that is you generally want to leave the water in it for a while and you don't want to do that with your actual tub, plus I imagine it's hard to keep the temperatures cold in house temperatures

@Mark-ro3gx 4 ай бұрын

Definitely doesnt come across as an ad 😄

@fireflymary9269 9 ай бұрын

Why not just use your bathtub?

@andthecowsaysmoo4 9 ай бұрын

Why not just use a bathtub?

@paperandpavement 9 ай бұрын

because they arent being paid by the pod company to sponsor a bath tub, they are being paid to sponsor this product.

@forsak3nkill3r 9 ай бұрын

I belive in one of his books or some of his podcast he mentions using bags of ice; a tub, and that was it. Like others said it's probably an ad.

@wabdih 9 ай бұрын

I feel like even taking cold showers is good enough to get most of the benefit. I guess this is for people who do it often though I guess

@YogiMorjaria 9 ай бұрын

Requires refilling the bath tub each day whereas these pods can be left filled so only the ice needs adding

@DomiSiki 9 ай бұрын

@@YogiMorjarianot really, you don't want to leave water for too long there... Especially if it is hot outside

@MichaelBabich 9 ай бұрын

Just use contrast shower. You get the same result.

@inevespace 9 ай бұрын

Depend where you live. In some places cold shower is quite hot.

@mattpen7966 9 ай бұрын

Ad.....

@danerose575 6 ай бұрын

Microdosing mushrooms is the best way to change my state 30-50% for 10 hours.

@The_Mentorship_initiative 4 ай бұрын

How much do you microdose?

@LNWheels 5 ай бұрын

It’s a trash can tho.

@YouTubeUtah 9 ай бұрын

It's called cold h2o and ice cubes in your bathtub. For more stupidly easy life hacks, be sure to follow. 😅

@paperandpavement 9 ай бұрын

yeah this is a straight up commercial. Dont be fooled by this "casual" conversation. everywhere you look its just people selling out on youtube. Id have respect for Tim if he just came out and said it was a paid sponsor instead of this fake conversation.

@anonymouse100 9 ай бұрын

Tim doesn’t do that-when he does an ad, it’s clear. And there’s no link.

@fireflymary9269 9 ай бұрын

EVERYTHING IS BEING MONETIZED and it’s about affiliate marketing and profits. Please THINK! Caveat Emptor!! This money/economy hamster wheel thing we are on is nuts. Good for Tim. He’s a cool guy and is living his life and trying to say or do some good. He’s very rich and who knows what he does with his money? But just because he has become a successful marketing agent doesn’t mean you aren’t required to think through things for yourself. Even his Green Powder that he pushes has real issues. Listen to Tim’s wisdom and be very cautious when anybody seems to be pushing anything whether products or philosophies. Tim has branded his lifestyle and if you want to you can live in his sphere or you can borrow or steal the parts of Tim’s universe that resonate with you and discard parts that don’t. At least stop to consider things more thoughtfully which includes this post. Think for yourself. Find your own authentic path. Sometimes it’s ok to not buy anything and just use what you have like your bathtub.