Dylan Ali and Andy Neary discuss using cold plunges and breath control to build discipline and emotional stability. Dylan cold plunges twice daily and uses breathing techniques to manage stress. Andy progressed to holding his breath for 2:40 minutes and credits the practice with emotional stability.
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Twice a day.
Add five seconds a day until you reach three minutes.
2 minutes and 40 seconds.
A 30-day prison workout challenge.
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But really, the discipline piece is literally just sitting, whether it's shoulders in, submerged, waist down or whatever, and controlling the breath. Because when you sit in that cold water, first thing that you want to do is grasp. But if you can sit into that water and you can just.
Control your breath. Now, when COVID 19 hits while everyone else is like dialing, just like.
Boom. When you don't hit that commission for the month, right? When you miss your sales goal, when you miss the sales contest by one and you feel like I'm the worst sales guy ever, you just stop and you just.
So for me, cold is such a great teacher. And now I literally cold plunge twice a day. Like I said, one is a cold soak and the other is an absolute cold plunge. Now, here's what happens in that. There are a lot of things that happen in your body as well, so melatonin release is one of them. So I also sometimes cold plunge at night to get my body ready for sleep. So the cold is such a great teacher. It's such a great advocate for you. But it sucks, man. It hurts sometimes, right? And don't get me wrong, I want.
To share with you, you have had an impact on Amy in my life because we were ones that jumped in the cold shower every morning, but it was probably for 15, 20 seconds. And then you and I chatted. I heard your philosophy about getting in there for up to three minutes. Add five seconds a day until you get the three minutes, then add the afternoon plunge. Now, we don't have a tub to plunge into. We do our shower, but that has literally been a game changer. I'd like, I'd love. I'm happy to share with you. I'm up to 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
Wow. Dude.
But it's getting to that point where you can literally stand under that ice cold shower and as you said, just go and breathe. And what you said was kind of an epiphany for me. It made me realize that Covid has not impacted Amy and I at all emotionally. And I think what you just explained has a lot to do with that. So I just wanted to say thank you.
Absolutely, man. Absolutely. I think breath is such an amazing gift, you know, that's why it's such a big part of my ritual in the mornings, right? And then I move into the physical piece of it, right? I move into the physical. And right now, I just started On Monday, this 30 day prison workout challenge for myself. So it's all, you know.
All I say is the rituals allow me to challenge life when life challenges me.
