Videos of tough men enduring pain & cold!

I am interested in my responses to cold & pain & have tried various things. Ice swimming, Cold baths, Running bare chested in the snow, Light slapping, spanking, & stapping over my back. I did it to toughen myself, prove I could, to learn more about myself & to build strength of character & self mastery.

The most important thing I learnt is that fighting cold & pain makes it worse - relax into it & let it in and it becomes a powerful force which makes me feel stronger, more determined & energised.

I wish people wouldn't always think that people into experementing with cold & pain are wierd or freaks, I am a normal, inteligent, fit, 23yo male.

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I keep physically fit with Exercise, Aerobics, Running, Swimming, Weight Training, etc.

But I also belive that with fitness goes toughness so I take my training a stage further with daily Cold Baths, and go Ice Swimming in winter! to develop willpower & resolve.

Occasionaly I use pain in personal development because I feel that part of toughness is an ability to cope with moderate pain, face it & not run away fron it.

I have experemented with mild whipping & caning, to test myself as a form of Stoicisim, Pain Endurance & Character Building. Can I take it like a man? do I have the mental self controll to bear pain stoically

The Spartans were very extreem about it, taking dosens of lashes with a whip, silently, a disgrace to cry out or scream.

Well, I am not so extreem 6-12 thwacks with a cane or 12-20 lashes with a whip are enough. But I take a pride in giving and taking this pain without flinching or wussing out.

I am 23 years old and my paid work is as a fitness instructor at a gym in the north of England. I know I have unconventional views on personal toughness and have found very few other people who share them.

Paul Lajos