Liujiang River.
In faraway Siberia, a group of Russian winter swimmers cut through the thick layers of ice and snow, drank a sip of vodka spirits, took off their coats and jumped into the ice lake to swim.
In the extreme cold, when winter swimmers crawl out of the ice holes, they are all frozen red and exhaled into ice.
This is a scene I saw online.
As a river swimmer, I missed the whole autumn this year and did not enter the river.
Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and I suddenly have a whim, and I want to take a swim when I reach the river.
* Going into the water, the cold river water flooded my calves. I shivered all over, and the chill made me feel goosebumps in an instant, and I didn't expect the river to be so cold in December.
I patted my body to warm up with a pinch of river water and let myself quickly adapt to the cold. The body has responded to stress immediately, pores contract, muscle spasms, body temperature drops, and adrenaline rises rapidly.
Step into the deep water, and the biting water gradually floods your knees to your chest. After a brief psychological struggle, I plunged into the river with a fearless attitude of dying and living.
Every inch of skin is crying for help, and countless fine ice blades enter the muscles and tendons through the body surface with a stinging cold, and go straight to the muscles and bones.
I had to swim as hard as I could to alleviate my physical struggle. The cold still soaked my hair, penetrating my scalp and into the core of my brain.
Every sleeping brain cell is activated by the freeze awakening. The brain is unusually awake, and an urgent message is sent out that the head hurts and the brain melon seeds are about to freeze.
If the duck plays in the cold river water, there must be thick feathers to protect against the cold.
I am thin and soaked, and my whole body is soaked in the cold river water, and only by waving my arms and slashing the waves and swimming quickly can I paralyze the wreak of the ice water on the body, and compete with the cold river with a spiritual will.
The body is honest, the waist is numb from the cold, and the back is unconscious. It's like a polar bear or penguin in a thousand-year-old ice cellar or an eternal glacier.
Faith is immortal, but it can transcend thousands of hardships.
After all, this is not minus 70 degrees Celsius, extremely cold Siberia. As I swam to the middle of the river, my body gradually adapted to the fact that human potential is limitless.
The challenge was accomplished, and after about half an hour, I swam ashore. The river breeze was cold, but I was so hot that I didn't need to wear clothes to keep warm.
I felt like I was suddenly deaf and refreshed. The whole person is as light as a swallow and appears young.
It was already a heavy snow season, and I relied on this strength to scatter wild water in the biting ice water. The benign stimulation of the river has empowered me, and a sense of accomplishment to overcome myself has arisen, which is really refreshing!
The human body is metabolizing every day.
Fierce beasts such as lions or tigers, if they are kept in captivity for too long, will lose their animal nature, and their combat effectiveness will be lost.
Usually in a cold, the body's immunity will be greatly improved after the body fights against bacteria and viruses.
Although for lovers who have been insisting on swimming for many years, such winter swimming is not worth mentioning at all. But I had never tried winter swimming, and now I stepped out of my comfort zone, temporarily broke away from my lazy routine, and swept away my usual fatigue and lethargy with a harsh winter swim that challenged my physical limits.
Just like fighting monsters in the game, your energy increases greatly after clearing the level. Today's winter swim made me overcome my fear of difficulties, upgrade my will, and enhance my immunity.
In the confrontation between man and nature, I feel that I am no longer weak and can't help the wind, and the development of cold resistance makes me full of confidence. With this invincible body, regardless of its flu virus or something, it will kill all sides, and all poisons will not invade.
Winter swimming may not be suitable for everyone, but in a variety of sports to hone the mind, overcome physical and mental slackness and inertia, so as to strengthen the body, maintain strong fighting spirit and vitality, everyone needs.
The small adventures and small stimuli of daily life are the accelerator and spice of life. As long as you dare to take on the challenge, anything is possible.
Get moving, and you'll be stronger than you think.
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