Martin Lynch of Lincoln will have his morning coffee in freezing cold water inside a Wheelie bin. The 44-year-old believes icy temperatures have had a profound effect on his life.
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00:00I'd seen a few posts with wheelie bins or ice baths and I didn't want to go spend hundreds
00:12of pounds on a on an ice bath and I had a spare green wheelie bin that had never been used so
00:18I just filled it with cold water and that was last September and including today today was
00:25day 222 in a row and it doesn't matter what the weather what sort of day I'm having I'm in that
00:36bin I used to try cold showers as part of a good morning routine I'd read on various social media
00:45threads and posts that cold water was good good for you a good start to the day
00:52um but I didn't really get on with cold showers very much but I kept doing it but then I started
00:59seeing people swimming in the sea and rivers and cold water therapy jumping through ice holes and
01:05things like that um and I wanted to try that on days that I couldn't get to the lake it really got
01:12me down because I knew that I wanted to get to the lake I wanted that that rush that adrenaline from
01:18cold water because it really is an adrenaline adrenaline rush and I would miss it and not
01:26being able to go would actually have a real negative effect on my um my state of mind I'm not thinking
01:35about you even I'm not thinking about my day at work I'm not thinking about anything else that's
01:40going on in my life I'm just thinking about the water the cold water and uh after that I'll start
01:50to let the rest of the world in on my terms so without making more of that than it is it simply
01:56is as simple as listening and hearing the birds so uh the coldest I've done um is just under one degree
02:06in the in that bin the wall of the bin actually ices up on the inside um and it's one of the things that
02:13I actually went in broke through the ice to get in um I've brushed inches of snow off the bin to get
02:20in some mornings in pitch black nothing but the stars so PTSD wasn't the main um drive towards me
02:29going for cold water therapy I had things before I joined the air force and uh again I think there's
02:37a lot of people who've served in the armed forces would say that a career in the armed forces maybe
02:42helps you hide from issues because you're so busy and you constantly have a different focus whether it's
02:52a new posting a new destination a new detachment it doesn't stop so you can get through life
02:59without having to stop and sit still for any length of time and deal with any issues you've got
03:04can't imagine not doing it and everybody I've introduced to it um they've messaged me days later
03:12to let me know that they've gone back and done it again and they can't believe how clear their
03:16mind's been for the rest of the day on days that they do it how much they miss it on days that they
03:22don't and of course when they say they miss it when they're not doing it that resonates for me
03:26because that's what drove me to um dipping in the bin
03:29you