Losing weight through Cold Plunge ?

For some, this is a main motivation to lose weight, for others a pleasant side effect. Whatever your motivation is stored, you inevitably have to spend more energy on Cold Plunge and this consumes glucose and fat. But what exactly happens if you go into the cold with your fat reserves and how does the fat help you burn?

The strong cold pulse at Cold Plunge first lowers your skin temperature. Collagen production is stimulated, the skin becomes tighter, but it also becomes colder inside your body. So your body has to keep your body temperature constantly at 37 ° C and it has to spend more energy. What exactly happens in the body when you expose yourself to cold is that your blood vessels are pulled together, which gives them less warmth. You will quickly notice that you also start trembling with what your body also generates heat. In addition, the cold increases your metabolism.

White fat makes fat, brown fat makes you slim

People also have white and brown fat cells. White fat cells only store energy and water and are very often the reason for overweight. White fat cells mainly collect on the stomach, legs and the buttocks. White fat is an energy storage that increases especially in old age. In addition to white fat, there is also brown fat. And this adipose tissue is energy storage as well as energy power plant in one. So it can heat your body.

The more brown fat cells you have, the more warmth you can produce with it that you need for Cold Plunge and the more energy you burn. And permanently, not just with Cold Plunge . There is a afterburn effect on Cold Plunge , which means that your body burns an increased amount of calories hours later. And the good news is that you can convert your white fat cells into brown, the so -called "browning". So it is a fat transformation and it only takes some time and Cold Plunge training 😉 Brown fat burns calories about twice as quickly as white fat. However, brown fat also regains very quickly, so you have to train it regularly.

But how many calories do you burn in the ice pool?

Of course, this depends on a few factors such as your height, your weight, the duration in the ice pool, how you warm up afterwards, etc. In this respect, this is difficult to say. But we still try it.

Studies have shown that 15 minutes in the ice bath can burn about 250 calories. According to another study from Scandinavia, cold increases the metabolic rate of brown fat up to 15%. Incidentally, researchers from the Loughborough University in England have found that a hot bath can also burn calories. And as many as a 30 -minute walk, namely about 130. However, the bathroom was for an hour - don't know who can stand it for so long - and at 40 ° C. However, the amazing thing is that the test subjects were just in the tub without moving. With an ice cream pool you have the double effect (250 calories vs. 130 calories) at a quarter of the time required (15 minutes vs. 60 min.).

A study that was carried out at the University of Maastricht also showed that between 200 and 400 kilocalories can be burned brown adipose tissue

Does cold shower or cold water help you lose weight?

Many also ask themselves whether cold showering has the same effect. Unfortunately, this is not the case. First, when showering, the heat drain from the skin is by no means as strong as if you were completely in the water. In addition, the water from the line is significantly warmer than in the ice pool.

Some also say it would be enough to drink cold water. Your body has to heat up the liquid to body temperature and thus also consumes energy. This process is called thermogenesis, so you consume more calories than you consume by bringing the water inside to your body temperature. Unfortunately, the body consumes only 30 to 35 kilocalories to heat a liter of ice water, which corresponds approximately to a sugar piece. It is not to be captured. So the right fat killer is warm bath or drink cold water. You may also consume a few calories, but in relation to what one adult eats per day, which corresponds almost exactly 2,000 kcal, the 30 calories only make up about 1.5% of your daily consumption of calories. So it is very little and will not really get you on. In this respect, it remains to be seen that only the walk into the ice -cold water consumes really a lot of calories and even later.

Cryotherapy with a similar effect but still the copy of the Cold Plunge S

Cryotherapy has also recognized this trend . So the targeted use of extreme cold, usually only for a few minutes in which your skin is frozen more or less for a short time. The treatment usually only lasts 3-5 minutes and costs around 50 euros per session. It is the more convenient and more expensive abbreviation for the cold, but it was found that a lot of calories are used here too, for the same reason as described above. You can lose up to 400 kcal per session with a afterburner effect, which means 20% of your daily calorie intake converted to the total budget and that is what makes it up. I would still Cold Plunge , it is the much more natural and resource -saving variant and probably has a stronger effect. In addition, you can control exactly how long your cold plunge T go to nature, meet with friends, meditate or do breathing exercises before and very gentle on your wallet.