Last updated: May 2026
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Every cold plunge review on ColdPlungeSpot is scored across five dimensions, weighted by relevance to actual cold plunge performance:
Each dimension is scored from 0 to 10. The overall score is a weighted average of the five dimensions. We do not round scores for aesthetic reasons - a product that scores 7.3 is published as 7.3.
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Primary reviews and content on ColdPlungeSpot are written and approved by Dr. Renee Halvorsen, PhD, an exercise physiologist with 11 years of cold-water immersion research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Dr. Halvorsen is the author of The Cold Protocol (Penguin, 2024) and has published peer-reviewed research on the physiological effects of cold-water immersion.
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