Cold Tubing....BRRRR

Coach Newsom implemented the mandatory cold tubing rule this past week. The upperclassmen had informed me of this rule and I was dreading the day that he was going to actually enforce it. Mandatory cold tubs mean that everyone has to find time after practice to sit in a freezing cold tub of water. My first time was not so fun. Freshmen, of course, get the honor of doing our cold baths last. To do a cold bath, you first have to put on these super cute and stylish green shorts. Since we were one of the last groups to do ours there were only XL shorts left. HUGE!! I had to roll them a couple times just to make sure they kind of stayed up. Not to mention that a lot of these shorts looked like they had been put through a shredder. They are covered in holes. Anyways once you have the shorts on, you go into the training room. In there is a tub the size of a hot tub but with cold water. The main objective is to try and fit as many people into the tub so you can cuddle together for as much warmth as possible (pretty pointless because it doesn't do any good). Once you are in the cold water, you have to remain there for ten whole minutes. Now to a lot of people that doesn't seem like a long time and it's not if you're in a warm room watching TV or something fun. When you are in a tub full of cold water, shivering, covered in goose bumps, that clock doesn't seem like it ever moves. At the end of those ten minutes, I feel like it's Christmas or my birthday and I just recieved the coolest present. It takes awhile afterwards to get warmed up too. You can't go from extremely cold to warm really fast because you could put your body into shock so it has to be done in a gradual process. Sometimes I don't warm up until I'm finally in bed under layers and layers of covers and blankets. Although they are the least fun thing, they do help with sore muscles and reviving your body from a hard workout.