![]() ![]() ![]() By the fourth week, you should be able to tolerate two minutes of cold water at the end of each shower. Thereafter, increase the time you spend in the cold water by 30 seconds each week. ![]() This temperature will cause some discomfort but should be tolerable. In the first week, Hof suggests 30 seconds of cold exposure each day (at least five days per week): After taking your regular warm shower, turn down the temperature so that the water feels cold (around 60 degrees Fahrenheit), and stand there. Rather, to avoid shocking your body and making yourself miserable, Hof recommends an incremental four-week program of taking cold showers. Now my turn, here goes … Jesus! I feel the air rushing from my lungs and body tightening up, recoiling, saying: “What the actual …” But I am actually in.Īrmed with his motto “What I am capable of, everybody can learn”, Hof believes that people can tap into their inner potential using his ‘Wim Hof Method’: a combination of breathing, cold therapy, and meditation.You’ve now learned why you should practice cold exposure, but don’t hop into an ice bath just yet! Although Hof gained fame by dunking himself in deathly cold water for prolonged periods, you shouldn’t start there. Put in the simplest of terms, the Wim Hof Method® is a way to keep your body and mind in its optimal natural state. And the seeds of the Wim Hof Method were born. “I found that going into cold water stops whatever is going on in your mind, you’ve got to survive in cold water, it is merciless, but righteous.” It helped him heal, and he began to think it could help others heal, too. Hof, in emotional agony, as well as facing bringing up four children himself with very little money, found some comfort in cold water, in the canyons around Pamplona. There is some good information here (respectable studies that have looked at his method, for example) and I do expect more studies to confirm the benefits of cold exposure and breathing exercises (we should not need studies to confirm common sense, might I say).With his characteristic deep, warm voice, Wim Hof teaches you the power of the breath and cold, guiding you every step of the way on a natural path to strength, health and happiness. The book could have been 75% shorter (and probably 75% more enjoyable as a result). I think I eventually gave up at about 87% through, because I couldn't get through the 20th repetition of the same ideas. That being said, this book is so full of pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo and variations on "If you follow this method, you will live 500 years, never experience disease, your wife and kids will love you, you will never feel sad or depressed", naturally supported by Wim's own claims about his own life, that it's hard to get through to the end. Whether you are looking to improve your athletic performance, relieve symptoms related to a health condition, or are just curious to find out what the Wim Hof Method® is all about- there’s something to be found for everyone. ![]() Now we have created this modern society in which we have every comfort, yet we are losing our ability to regulate our mood, our emotions.” In nature, it is not only the physically weak but the mentally weak that get eaten. ![]()
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