Chest Freezer Ice Bath Set Up - The Sisu Way (Wim Hof Method cold exposure) 

Right on bro! Never forget to unplug before entering. 62 year old man, 42 years as a commercial refrigeration technician. Grocery stores and convenience stores. Water and electric don’t mix ! I know you know that, you told us . I suggest making a label on the lid to remind people. In case you are not home , and someone who doesn’t know uses it. Where was the leak coming from? You say these things have a drain in them, and that’s where it leaked out? I live in phoenix and use my pool . Teathered swimming for 30 minutes. April to October 15 th . When I’m for 30 minutes you can’t have the water too cold. 65-70 is pushing it. So June to sept I have no cold water and I get bummed. The coldest shower water those months is still warm. But oct 10 th to April 10 th , the pool is plenty cold, 38-55 degrees. Just stay in 5 minutes longer in 55 vs 38. I need to build one for summer. It’s too hard to re condition each season. 4 th year of cold water submersion. I don’t dig the cold shower as much as submersion. I will fill the tub with 50 degree water. Thanks for sharing your time and thoughts! Still toying with your idea and a commercial ice machine, to throw ice in a small tank.

I just ordered a 20 cu ft freezer and intend to do this, including grounding wire, timer, and filter. It will be a nice complement to my wood-burning sauna. Great video! Very excited to try this out.

Just got my chest freezer and this was very helpful in getting me started. Thanks!

That masterpiece, master peace line gave me the chills bro! Thank you so much for sharing

If you use an ink bird temp control it will allow you to set the temperature and it will maintain the temperature by cutting the power on and off to the unit without having to figure out a timer.

Hey, Scott! Thank you for the video! I liked it a lot, I've seen it three times, something about ice is fascinatinting to me. I also have a cold plunge, not as big as yours, but I love it. I am doing a bath, or two or sometimes three a day. Before I got it I think your video was the first I have seen about how to make one. I am using, as you may already know about now, for cleaning, a ozone generator and a small filtration for aquariums, to move the water and clean the water. Works great and rarely change the water, few times a year. 5-10 minutes of O3 after each bath and it stays clean. All the best! Update (how to constantly have ice in the tub): I'm going to add here some details I learned from using a chest freezer like this, for those who what to know (science shit, but very useful for me): • 36° is a lot more confortable than 32°, meaning that ice in the water changes the situation a lot; • Scott here has 32°. Once the water starts forming and keeping ice like that, it can ONLY have 32°, because that's how water works, it is 32° as long as there are both states simultaneous present, liquid and solid, meaning ice. And that's when thermometers become useless. They are useful while the water is all liquid, but useless after ice is present. If your thermometer shows less than 32°, you only have ice in there or the termometer is off. Water is less than 32° F only in solid state -meaning ice- and above 32° only in complete liquid state. This means that if there's simultaneously ice and liquid water in the freezer and your thermometer shows a temperature other than 32° F, the termometer is off by the difference between 32° and what it shows. Remember that value and you will know the corect temperature of the water. I have two thermometers, when there is ice in the liquid one shows 33.44°, one 30.92° when both should show 32°F. Heat is a form of energy. It is the movement of molecules. There are two types of heat: measurable and non-measurable, latent. The heat that is drawn from the water after it forms ice is called latent heat, it's there but it can't be measured, weird but it happens like that. • What time to keep it on: To determine approximately what amount of time to keep the freezer on, to do calculations, you need to have a probe-thermometer, the ones that have a long cable with a probe at the end that goes in the water. With a thermometer with a probe at the end and the freezer on, note how long it takes to lower the temperature by .1°, maybe 1° and divide that by 10. Mine takes 8.1 minutes to lower the temperature by .1°C, so approximately 90 minutes to lower the temperature by 1°C. Than, measure or note how much you heat the water by taking one bath. Mine is 0.8° C, I don't know how much it is in Fahrenheit. Also note how much the water heats by itself, without you in it in a 24 hour period. Now you can use this formula to determine how much time per week you need to keep the freezer on: [(amount of heat for one bath)*(number of baths pe week) + (amount of heat that the water temperature rises per day)*7]/(the time that it takes to lower the temperature by 1°F). Use this starting after you already have the amount of ice that you want in the tub, and you will constantly have ice in the water. • I start it two-three times per week, I keep it approximately 20 total, and the ice rises to the top after about two days since I stop the refrigeration (I think it takes so long because my chest freezer has aluminium walls and the ice sticks to them). Since it is so much ice, I break it with a hammer. • Keeping the water moving with an aquarium filter means that, because heat is movement, the water will freeze a lot slower and will melt much more. But the water movement is useful to keep it cleaner, so I use more refigeration. The 20 hours of refrigeration per week is ok to me. Hope this helps somebody, it helps me a lot and it took me a long time to learn it.

In addition to being a teacher, dentist, doctor, and lawyer he also does ice baths, what a legend!

Excellent video, thanks. I do the daily cold showers, hope to evolve on to the ice baths. Very stylish look - I'll follow your example if I get there.

Thank you for the knowledge. This is the most practical home ice bath I've seen.

Scott great video! I just bought my own freezer to convert into an ice bath. Your tips were super helpful! It was the best video I have seen so far showing how to do this well.

You become a masterpiece when you master peace! Love it.

This is by far one of the best DIY cold tank videos.

I'm just starting the Wim Hof method. I'm going to be doing a freezer like this EVENTUALLY. Right now, I'm just waiting on craigslist to find a used one that is really big and in good condition. Luckily, doing cold showers now, I have plenty of time before I need to do something like that. So I'll get a great deal :) Also, I have purchased his 10 week course. It's actually great for this. First day is warm shower, finished by 30 seconds cold shower.

Really like this. Thank you. I like the way you clean the water as I don't want to drill into the side for a filter.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! Massively appreciated. I just bought a freezer pretty much the exact same size and you have helped my learning curve to get it prepared so much. Thank you!!!

good job, love the addition of the rubber ducks.

Great video ! Looking into this now! The tub has been rocking for 4 years or so and looking for something more permanent and all year long. Thank you!

Great informative vid brother. Cheers all the way from New Zealand. That wrap is awesome by the way.

Awesome video! Thank you Scott.

Thank you so much for sharing this video Cheers, Leo

Just got one of these. Thanks for the info. Should have watched it all b4 fillin it up tho. Didnt do any leak sealing. Paid 60 maple syrup bucks for it off kijiijii.

Que lindo, amei a madeira em torno.

Awesome thanks for this. You’ve answered a lot of questions I had about setting up a future ice bath. I’m still using cold showers right now. Thanks brotha 👍

Excellent video. You answered most of my questions. Thank you. New sub

Good job! Some guys say seal off the drain? You put a gasket in yours , so you can use it? Is the only thing I’m confused on? Great video. I discovered the cold water by accident. I’m 62 and a life of hard excercise put me in the swimming pool. Knees and shoulders, jogging and weights after 40 years was just too much. I would swim laps in a 60-65 degree pool for 40 minutes, until the weather warmed it up. I found so good mentally after 40 minutes in 65 degrees. Is how I stumbled on Wim Hof . Life is full of pain and suffering and even trauma like Wim Hof went through. We go in the cold water for our minds , anything else is secondary.

I’m going to use your idea brother. Thanks for sharing your set up with us.

Excellent video ! Thanks so great information and ideas !

Great Video, thanks. I am going to be building one soon!

Hey Scott. You're the man. I'm definitely doing this. Hope to see you again soon. =)

Thanks a lot for the interior dimensions !

great video!!! fantastic information, thank you very much! IF you ever in Cabo, drop by for an ice bath.

Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Now I know what is my next project! 🤝

awesome video thanks really helpful

Very helpful thank you.

Dame that is nice. Where I am right now, there is Alot of snow. no need to buy ice.

Thank you 🙏

So well made! Awesome

Great video! I just started doing the Wim Hoff method. In the past I’ve taken cold showers, but now, with the breath work beforehand, I can start with cold water and my showers last around 10 minutes. I find myself trying to turn the water even colder because it feels so amazing, lol

Nice video.. thanks man for spreading the word.. 🥶

Great video! 👍 I want one!

informative - great vid, thank you. I'm in the process of sorting one myself but I live in Singapore - thoughts on keeping it working with life on the equator? I'll be keeping it outside.

You could try using a temperature controller. They sell them for home brewing kegerators. The probe goes into the water and the freezer would plug into the temperature control unit, when the water reaches the temperature that you set the controller turns off the freezer. They run about 30 to 60 dollars on amazon. It might not work as well for forming ice as the timer method you are currently using though.

i am in the process of setting mine, considering a spa ozonator to keep it clean. mind you that at this temperatures nothing will grow.

Thanks. Lots of good tips

Great content, thanks! what filtration are you using?

Ii think you did a great job

Awesome. Great video!

Sweet! Thx man

This is great 👍🏽 😮

Top man! Great info

considering you use the pump to pull out the sediment from the bottom/shower before using/hydrogen peroxide/etc, how often do you change the actual body of water, if at all ?

link to the wrap you used?

AWSOME!!!!!

well done on the video. I started doing the WHM a couple months ago and my pool was great in Jan and Feb but the water temp is already up to 70deg F in Phoenix area, so not much of a challenge anymore. I was looking for ways to get a good cold plunge with the upcoming warm weather and this looks like just the thing I'm looking for. The thought occurred to me to maybe try using a vinyl pool or pond liner material to line the freezer to prevent leaks, possibly use a construction adhesive to glue the edges so that the door seal will still work, the weight of the water will keep it pressed to the sides, most of those liners are black so it would match your aesthetic of your patio. I hit subscribe.

Good video

Johnny Sins out here with the DIY content. Truly a man of many talents.

When do you get in? In the morning when you get up or after you train? And how long do you do it? You may have answered these but it was a lot of info in the video so I missed it.

Chingon., gracias

the good thing about cold winters is that u dont need to produce ice, u can just get it from the tap water which is 12 degreeds celsius ( at least where i live), so all u have to do is fill up your beth tube and get inside. My longest cold bath at 12 degree celsius was for 10 min, but i just found out today that best is 15 min, so my next mission is 15 min.

I still need to try to get my freezer motor running(got it off the street, but it doesn't turn on).

Great Video Scott , 1/3 Cup of 35% how often? Once a week, once a month? How often would you change the water ? I'm experimenting with sanitation methods, Thanks !!!!

Great video!

You can also put Colloidal Silver in the water to kill bacteria.

YOUR LIFE BECOMES A MASTERPIECE WHEN YOU LEARN TO MASTER PEACE...I LIKE THAT

did you seal any of the seams on the inside?

Amazing

Would be cool if you going into Rebounding/trampoline theraphy too, thats super amazing as Wim Hof method.

Very clever,nice finish.

How is the sealant holding up now Scott?

wouldnt a temperature controller be better than a timer?

Cool dude

I am curious about the ideal setting, in your opinion. I’m referring to the number dial to control how cold. I’ve kept mine on 3 (1-5) for the week I’ve had it. I’m asking in hopes of keeping the stress down on the compressor and limiting the heat if possible. Thanks for the great video!

Hey great video and I really like the set up! Maybe you mentioned and I didn’t hear, what kind of wrap I’m interested in wrapping mine when I get it!

Great video awesome love it buddy. I'll be getting a chest freezer real soon doing something very similar to what you're doing. I also will be filling up with hose water, my question would be how do you deal with the fluoride it's in the water.? also I will be using from 32 to 50 degree temperature water would that be cold enough that maybe it would not let the fluoride penetrate the skin? Once again love this setup you did love the video have a great day. Thanks much..😉

I wonder how hard it would be to add a pressure release switch on the lid, so it kills the power whenever opened? Great Video, Great Set Up!

Hey! 80 years old and my states are AOK with no Issues. Living in the Philippines from Chicago and love to take cold showers. Is this safe for me??

Temperature control is the best addition you can make. My freezer only runs around 4 hours a day which is a huge power savings. Its funny you said you haven't found the need to do that yet but wrapping it in plastic was an important step, which also makes it run less efficiently.

I live in dc. It gets very humid in the summers and rainy. Do you recommend I get one for inside, I never see these videos of freezer chest ice baths for inside in a basement or something.

So its been 4 years now since the video upload is the ice bath still working and did you have to replace any parts?

Can the freezer get rained on/snowed on, or does it need to bo covered (maybe a grill cover)? I live in a four season area.

I’ve being practicing wim hof breathing for about a year and also been doing only cold showers. I built myself an email ice bath chest freezer and love it, but I find if I’m in the water for more than 30 seconds my legs sting have a lot of pain when I get out. I this something that goes away with practice?

Hey man where did you find the wrapping? Or what should I be searching online to find similar stuff? I keep getting wallpaper or stickers

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Thanks bro, you answered almost every question I had. But how fast does it warm up when you're in it? If you're in it for 5 minutes, will it be at like 45degF when you're done? Have you checked the temperature afterwards?

Looks amazing mate, what model is your freezer? Struggling to find a white interior where I am ...

Sorry if you answered this already, how long should a beginner sit in the chest freezer? Thanks!!

Great video! Just one question: how did you seal the cracks that were leaking? which product did you use?

any chance you can link to the wrap you used for it? Really liked it. THanks for video, very good.

What is recommended for east coast residents who receive heavy snowfall outside, will freezer be safe outside during cold,snowfall?

Hi @Scott McGee Looking to create a chest freezer cold plunge solution myself - thanks for the video! Just be careful with the grounding of the freezer. Grounding the freezer to the dirt or "earth" is not the same as protecting you from faults in the circuit. Thought I comment just in case you want to consult with an electrician on how to protect yourself whilst using the chest freezer. I would suggest further, but I'm in Australia, and the circuitry may be different from in the States. I would look into an RCBO Protected Weatherproof outlet. This will protect you from residual current leaks as well as function as a circuit breaker. The residual current device will be far better at saving your life as capable in detecting small leakages in electricity lower than the threshold that is deemed unsafe for human bodies.

Is it possible to have this outside with no cover from the elements?

After 2 years do you recommend filtration and sanitation system? I'm a part of chest freezer ice plunge group and those that dont have linex lining, they dont seem to break 2 years. I'd like to atleast get 3 - 5 years. Does this align with your experience?

So mine will not get that cold. Water temp is 63 degrees even after a few hours on max settings. I did not seal mine before I filled it. Didn’t think about it. Wondering if I damaged the internals by not sealing the inside

when turning it on first time, did you crank it up to the max or else?

So the temperature control is set to maximum I assume, then you use the timer?

Id like to augment my home water system with ice cold water. Im from Colorado where the water was well freezing a good portion of the year, to Michigan, oddly, the water is hardly cold even in the middle of winter.

Nice looking freezer, but by wrapping it you are inhabiting the heat from escaping. The resulting effect is longer compressor running. I’m an appliance repair technician

Where did you get the pump to drain the water

Got a link for the wrap?

Have you considered adding Epson salt to prevent ice from forming? It's good for your muscles and skin as an additional benefit.