On their own, cold showers are not long enough to be that effective.
How long are you going to take a cold shower? For 10 minutes, at most? How much real-world metabolic and body composition changes do you really think that will induce?
Don’t believe us? Ok, you take your 10 minute cold shower every day of the week. We’ll wear the Cool Fat Burner for an average session time of 60 minutes (easy to do, since we’ll be watching TV or goofing off around the house while we do it), for only 3-5 days a week.
At the end, let’s compare total calories burned, changes in blood glucose levels, changes in adiponectin, changes in irisin, and everything else we’ve shown the CFB capable of.
We already know what the Cool Fat Burner can do. How do you think a 10 minute cold shower will compare?
Cold showers are a nice adjunct to the Cool Fat Burner. You can use them as a cool down, or perhaps after the session, as the proverbial icing on the cake. But on their own, they’re simply too brief, and probably not intense enough, to make a real-world noticeable effect. Besides, most people feel cold showers are a miserable experience!
As for ice baths, yes they can be very effective for cold thermogenesis!
How long do you think you’ll keep that up?
And while you’re sitting in agony in the ice bath, think of us laughing and watching TV while we wear the CFB and get the same results!
As for rigging up your own “Do It Yourself” vest and cold packs…really? Are you trying to set yourself up for failure?
First you’ll need 2-3 times as many ‘regular’ commercial brand gel packs, to get the same surface area and time-length as our packs. You’re already spending more than the CFB.
Here is a real user’s forum comments about our cold packs:
“I used it today and had it on almost 3 hours. I pretty much watch a marathon of Law & Order SVU and forgot about it. What I find amazing is that after 3 hours the pack were still FRIGGING COLD!! I mean still too cold to hold in the hand for more than a minute. I also like the vest. It keeps the packs where they need to be.”
Also note, our packs, though not recommended, can maintain skin temps cold enough and long enough to induce spot-reduction of stomach fat. You think generic packs will do that?
The Fat Burner and Gut Buster vests are made explicitly to target brown fat zones, target the stomach area, and create general cold stress to the trunk. Do you think a jury rigged, duck taped, stitched up sweat-pants-scraps garment that falls apart in 2 weeks will compare?