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If you want to toughen up, you could take extreme measures, such as sitting in an ice bath or sauna for increasingly long times. Or you could just go for a run or a ride, suggests new research out of Australia.
Previous research has shown that endurance athletes can have higher pain tolerance, but not a higher pain threshold, than non-athletes. That is, athletes and non-athletes start finding something painful at the same point, but once in pain, the athletes can tolerate the sensation for longer than non-athletes. These findings, however, raise a chicken-or-egg question: Do some of the people do well as athletes because they naturally have a greater pain tolerance, or does being an athlete lead to developing greater pain tolerance?
http://www.runnersworld.com/sports-psychology/getting-fit-increases-pain-tolerance
Previous research has shown that endurance athletes can have higher pain tolerance, but not a higher pain threshold, than non-athletes. That is, athletes and non-athletes start finding something painful at the same point, but once in pain, the athletes can tolerate the sensation for longer than non-athletes. These findings, however, raise a chicken-or-egg question: Do some of the people do well as athletes because they naturally have a greater pain tolerance, or does being an athlete lead to developing greater pain tolerance?
http://www.runnersworld.com/sports-psychology/getting-fit-increases-pain-tolerance