A Cryo Session, Start to Finish
Designed by BearmoreKeen to try cryo, but dreading the cold?
This is one way to get invigorated and totally wide awake. Start with a stretch to loosen up, a few rounds of breathing to settle the nerves, then three minutes of deep cold exposure in the cryo chamber.
The runsheet
A stretch to start
StretchingBefore anything else, move gently through legs, hips and shoulders to wake the body up. Nothing forced. You are loosening off so the breathwork and cold exposure have a relaxed body to work with.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing stretching before breath work
This can help because body awareness and any relaxation can enhance more complex breathing practices.
Intentional breathing
Breath workBefore you step in, a few slow rounds of breathing to drop the anxiety a notch. You are not trying to relax the cold away. You are just settling. Longer out-breaths, soft shoulders, then in you go.
5 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing breath work before cryotherapy
This pairing is especially effective because the same controlled-breath skill that handles cold plunges meets cryotherapy's more extreme cold with the same composure.
Three minutes in the chamber
CryotherapyA session at about -110 degrees, for the full three minutes. Three minutes is can go quickly but not at that temperature!
3 min activityTime well spent.
44m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
This block is composed around a roughly three minute cryotherapy session at about -110 degrees. The slow stretch to loosen up and the breathwork before it are there so the three minutes sit inside a broader routine you can do.