Claims about the benefits of cold-water immersion date back centuries but scientific confirmation is still lacking ...

Cold water swimming has been popular for a while now (which is why you see so many swim robes around), but are the suggested benefits real? Find out what is fact and whether it’s right for you here… ...

Researchers have examined the increasingly popular practice of cold-water immersion – things like taking a cold shower or sitting in an ice bath – to see whether there’s any scientific basis for ...

Senses vary in their openness to language. If smells and tastes are hard to describe, the intimate somatosensory modalities may elude description altogether. A human body can sense its position and ...

Dr. Stacy Sims, PhD, well-versed in how temperatures can affect the body, warns women that ice baths may be too cold for our health.

Sharon Prahl was 21 when death nearly took her. She was biking cross-country with a friend in 1986 when she hit a rough patch and flipped her bike, fracturing her skull and injuring her spine. In the ...

Lovers of winter swimming in costumes take a "bath" this month in the frigid Baltic Sea in Gdansk, Poland. Photo by Sergei Gapon Cold plunges, ice baths, polar plunges, Viking swimming...whatever the ...

In just a few short months, organizers of an ice swimming competition pulled together an event that brought together a hundred swimmers from all over the world. They competed on Saturday in an ...

Qing Li always wanted to compete in the Olympics. The 35-year-old grew up surrounded by swimming greats and even got to meet a few Olympic swimmers before she turned 10. From a young age, Li competed ...