"There's No Bad Weather, Just Bad Clothes"

You may have heard this Norwegian phrase before, but I heard it this morning on the radio.  Norwegians are raised to learn how to dress well for outside due to the weather conditions they face.  They are very big on wearing layers of clothing which I've been a believer in for years.  If it gets cold up north this winter, make sure your head is covered and it will help keep your body warm.  I would much rather wear 3-5 layers of clothing than a heavy coat, it just works better.

How do you get your body adjusted to the cold? Apparently our military has spent a lot of money trying to figure that out and prepare our cadets at West Point.  It is cold up there in New York in the winter, but they make first year cadets take a cold shower each morning and that makes a big difference.  Yes, they take a cold shower every day to get their body adjusted for the outside temperatures.

Down here in the South there are many people like ourselves who start getting adjusted to warmer temperatures.  When it's fifty degrees there are not just native southerners who are cold, but people who have moved down here from colder climates.  I expect at some point temperatures in the 40's and 50's will start bothering us, but we're not there yet.

So, if you want to start getting used to the cold, take cold showers.  Or, maybe you'll feel warmer knowing that other people are taking cold showers and you have a hot shower coming in the near future. And, you don't have to worry about having good or bad clothes on, just take the hot shower.