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#1: Cold Baths! Author: Xanthe, Location: London/Cambridge

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:03 pm

Saw this on the BBC news website... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/4172097.stm

#2: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:26 am

Quote:

Dr Clough took a group of university students up a mountain in Derbyshire and made them put their hands in a bucket of cold water while answering questions.

eek! glad that wasn't me

#3: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:54 am

*hopes Dr. Clough's science was better than presented in this article* How did he distinguish between effects of mountain climbing and effects of cold water -- and were there any actual cold bath data, with proper controls? *NOT volunteering for follow-up studies!!!!*

#4: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:14 am

Quote:

Having a cold bath in the morning could cut stress levels among workers, research has found.

Well - obviously!!! Rolling Eyes

Let's face it - your day could only get better!! Laughing

#5: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:37 pm

I used to work with someone who had friends who believed the secret of health wealth and happiness in life was to immerse yourself each morning in a bath of cold water (up to the neck). Apparently they had to work up to it gradually, but were generally healthy and happy - and if they had a bath where they could fully immerse themselves to the neck I would guess they were fairly wealthy as well! Liz

#6: Author: JackieJ, Location: Kingston upon Hull

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:44 pm

Emily had better watch out if he's planning follow-up studies! Then again, so should I if he decides to carry out workplace trials. *Looks warily round the city for mad lecturers with buckets of cold water* JackieJ

#7: Author: Emily, Location: Land of White Coats and Stethoscopes.

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:24 pm

*keeps eyes peeled for scary people named Dr. Clough and wearing mountaineering gear*

#8: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:35 pm

*g* Well, Paula Radcliffe has an icy bath before her big races - ice cubes and everything Shocked

... clearly this doesn't work in Athens though Wink

#9: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:39 pm

It's against my religion to immerse myself in cold water. It has to be hot, perfumed and bubbly for me.

#10: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:50 pm

I love baths and I haven't had one for over 3 weeks so I'm longing to have one (not cold, I hasten to add) but hubby won't let me as he's concerned I won't be able to get out of it afterwards! Why do abdominal muscles have to be used for so many things?!! Liz By the way, I have been having showers, just in case anyone thinks I'm the stinkiest person around Laughing

#11: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:22 pm

LizB wrote:

By the way, I have been having showers, just in case anyone thinks I'm the stinkiest person around Laughing

I was wondering... Wink

#12: Re: Cold Baths Author: Evvy,

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:29 pm

Urrgh, cold baths, I like mine piping hot, and really long

#13: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:43 pm

Baths have to be very hot, very bubbly and come complete with a drink and and a book. Lukewarm is reserved for showers...never cold...brrr, I'm shivering thinking about it.

#14: Author: pim, Location: the Derbyshire wilderness

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:11 pm

One of my plonker flatmates left the shower on the cold setting this morning (anything less than 9 is freezing)... I was not impressed when I jumped in! A mountain in Derbyshire? Sounds like Kinder to me, many happy memories of doing Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and training up there!

#15: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:22 pm

I HAVE been up Kinder Scout, but my only memories of it are of cloud/mist and bog....

#16: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:42 pm

Rosie wrote:

I HAVE been up Kinder Scout, but my only memories of it are of cloud/mist and bog....

Bog, cloud and a hike that seemed to go on for days even though we were home in the evening.

#17: Author: Chelsea, Location: Your Imagination

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:27 pm

I have cold bath/showers after long runs. Actually, the best is to alternate hot and cold (or as cold as one can stand). It helps get the lactic acid etc. out of muscles. Obviously, the alternating thing only works in the shower, not the bath!

#18: Author: pim, Location: the Derbyshire wilderness

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:18 pm

Rosie wrote:

I HAVE been up Kinder Scout, but my only memories of it are of cloud/mist and bog....

I think you have Kinder in a nutshell there Rosie. We did D of E up there in the snow, was not fun. Still it's very nice to look at from the safety of my parents' back garden )

#19: Author: Rosie, Location: Huntingdonshire/Bangor

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:41 pm

It rained all day, and then we went back to a soggy campsite. In December. I have not yet forgiven the guy who suggested we camped rather than stay in a nice bunk house that year.... Or even a skanky bunkhouse that you have to walk across 3 fields to reach from the minibus, and put lights on the stiles. At least that has the added amusement of being able to watch someone's head torch drop sharply as they fall into a massive ditch (I was one of them)...

#20: Author: Alex, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:38 pm

Dr Clough sounds a bit evil, but thinking about it, taking cold baths in Lourdes, France does some people a lot of good...

#21: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:45 pm

I should think the shock would be more likely to kill them! And no, I'm not being nasty, I just hate cold water.

#22: Author: nikkie, Location: Cumbria

Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:45 pm

I've just read in Saturdays guardian that Mussolini used to take a cold bath.

#23: Author: Betty Sue, Location: Sydney, Australia

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:32 am

In India cold baths are normal - even in areas like Ladhak which get quite cold. And I live in a hot climate and there's nothing sweeter than a cold bath on a hot humid day. However, one wonders if the Chalet School's insistence on cold baths relates to the practice common in English public schools, where cold baths were thought to repress sexual urges? Wink

#24: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:33 am

I can't understand why there was so much fuss made about their cold baths. by all accounts, they had approximately two minutes for the bath in the morning, and I don't see how they could have got themselves clean in that time.

#25: Author: Gabrielle, Location: Washington DC

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:48 am

I'm not a fan of cold baths! Very Happy

And believe me I know about them! When I was in Senegal I got to have cold showers and in theory this is refreshing, however in practice I stood there shivering! Although when I was at my parents' house during the massive heatwave (summer 2002 I think) cold baths were nice but then we weren't used to the weather. I know that the girls left the water running for the next person but there couldn't have been much water in the bath, running a bath takes a few minutes, it seems an awful waste of water. Couldn't the girls choose whether or not they wanted cold or lukewarm baths?

#26: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:46 am

They cold chose but I always got the impression that no-one had (or at least admitted to having) lukewarm baths cos it was somehow seen as namby-pamby!

#27: Author: Miriam, Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:56 pm

I've wondered whether, at least in the TYrol days, it was a basic function of practicality getting enougfh hot water for everyone to have even a warm bath would have meant an awful lot of boiler stoking fro whichever half witted boy was in service at the time. In 'School at' they have to go down to the kitchen to get warm water for Amy to bath when they get up early on Madges' birthday, so there was obviously none for the rest of them. Even in Switzerland, Gaudenz was against installing electric heating. If this extended to the water heating, the same problem could have applied - multplied by the amopunt of girls now in the school. Oce cold baths had become a school tradition, it was probably something that they never thought about changing.

#28: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:48 pm

Miriam wrote:

It's a bit like that at the Gathers Wink

(not that I have a half-witted boy in service Laughing

)

#29: Author: Pat, Location: Doncaster

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:13 pm

It's more that both showers don't work at the same time that's the problem at the Gs!!!

#30: Author: Rachael,

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:17 pm

Or if your name's Kathye Wink

#31: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:50 pm

Mind you, the shower has rather a grudge against Kathye, cos it did the same thing the weekend AFTER the SG, when there were only 5 of us there! (well, 6 counting Megan, but she didn't have a shower!!!) ETA : Rachael, maybe you should look into GETTING a halfwitted boy? Wink

#32: Author: Lyanne, Location: Ipswich, England

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:52 pm

Betty Sue wrote

Quote:

However, one wonders if the Chalet School's insistence on cold baths relates to the practice common in English public schools, where cold baths were thought to repress sexual urges?

Well, I did assume that was the case. Joan Baker is a case in point proving this, as she thinks as this bathng is 'footling rot'.

#33: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:17 am

I thought that was just because she wasn't that hot on personal hygeine.Liz

#34: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:51 pm

How come they were in danger of getting pneumonia if they fell in the lake for the briefest amount of time, but having a cold bath posed no health threat?! Shouldn't Joey have also had hot baths like Amy??

#35: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:41 pm

I remember when I was about 11 and trying to be A Good Chalet Girl ( Embarassed

) I tried cold baths in the morning. I think it lasted about 3 days. I read in the paper the other day that the England Rugby team have ice baths after training.

#36: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:36 pm

So does Paula Radcliffe I believe.

#37: Author: Tiphany,

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:39 pm

Kat wrote:

I've always wondered this... but I think it's partly that when you have a cold bath, you leap straight out and get dried and dressed and go downstairs and lean on the stove, whereas when you fall in the lake you have to walk a mile back to the chalet in your cold wet clothes. What gets me is how they're always described as being "warm and glowing" from the cold bath. If I have a cold shower I'm frozen and shivering. Yet another sign that I'd never have been a good chalet girl Sad

#38: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:58 pm

I suppose that was the reason they were so rushed in the morning - so that they had time to build up that glow.

#39: Author: Pado, Location: Connecticut, USA

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:19 am

We ran out of hot water this morning and I was determined to be a good chalet girl and have a cold shower....let's just say "glow" wasn't even close to the result. Surprised

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