There is no doubt he is an exceptional human being, but the beauty of his attitude and this book, is that he absolutely believes every one of us has the ability to be exceptional. The book also has examples of how people have have healed themselves through very challenging health ailments by using the Wim Hof Wim Hof is an “outlier” who certainly loves the outdoors. Wim explains his breathing and meditation techniques. Spending almost 200 on a breathing course isn’t an offhand purchase for me.The book then covers techniques to harness the 3 elements - Cold, Breathing and Mindset. The classic 10-week Wim Hof Method course is just under 200, while the Fundamentals course is just under 300 (although Wim is doing a half-price discount due to COVID). The Wim Hof Method course is pricey.
This book will change your life BEN FOGLE Positive and persuasive ANT MIDDLETONHis method for exceptional health is intuitively believable if somewhat uncomfortable! Indeed, the idea of ice baths for rapid recovery, and breathing for performance excellence is pretty widely applied in the 21st century. The Wim Hof Method : Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits. He attributes these feats to his Wim Hof Method (WHM. He has set Guinness World Records for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body contact with ice, and previously held the record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow.
He has achieved some incredible feats, both as an individual and with teams. After four rounds of the 30-40 deep breaths with hold, we have re-balanced our biochemical and hormonal blood PH balance which has beneficial short and long-term effects.Wim Hof embodies mental toughness. It can provide a true natural high and is great for our daily energy. After 30-40 deliberate breaths, he recommends holding the breath which at this stage can be done for a surprisingly long time.
In New York that day, he warmed up his hand live on a monitor on stage, increasing the temperature of his hand by 12 degrees Fahrenheit through mental will.By harnessing the power of the mind to control the body, Hof has caused heart rate monitors to flatline, he has influenced the Vagus nerve, he has maintained core body temperature in sub-zero conditions. Hof believes that emotion is biological and we have a potential power over our human body which modern medicine does yet not fully understand.In fairness, the great thing about Wim Hof is that he demonstrates and proves his beliefs beyond doubt. Before a challenge he recommends the following:Sit down, follow the breath – deep inhalation and let go as we instil a sense of calm, while focusing on our goal or forthcoming challenge.“Set attention, tell your body what you expect it to do, wait for the alignment and inner sense of trust, then go and do it!”The mind can activate the right hormones to allow for increased oxygen absorption. He talks about the “adrenal axis”, a system which regulates the body’s response to stress, immune function, energy expenditure, and mood. He generated heat from within to combat the cold without.His explanations are informative.
I recommend the book inspiring, insightful, applicable, purposeful. He has persevered in the face of personal tragedy and public cynicism, but the Iceman won through. I have been working on strict handstand push ups which have seen extremely marginal gains over months, but after one round of the deep breathing I got two more repetitions comfortably! It works, no doubt in my mind.My takeaway is that Wim Hof was a lone wolf who now leads a wolf pack! He has been a missionary on a mission to help others in the same way he has helped himself to break new ground in our collective understanding of human potential. A degree of discomfort perhaps, but proven long-term benefits to health, happiness, and heuristics!I was intrigued by Hof’s reference to the push-up challenge so I tried it do as many as you can for a baseline, then do a single round of the 30-40 deep-breath breathing, then redo the push ups during the retention (breath held out) and recovery breath. He was then challenged to train others to demonstrate that his philosophy and methodology could be learned, applied, and replicated by others.Never one to back down from a challenge, Hof found 12 male subjects and trained them in Poland near the Czech border, in freezing mountain conditions, bare chested, to control their response to the cold using only their mindset and their breath! The trained group was able to voluntarily activate their sympathetic nervous system which was a notable breakthrough for science.In summary, Hof recommends a simple practice which draws on three pillars a breath meditation for a few minutes, to set the mind, before standing in a cold shower for increasing periods of time. He has been described as a physiological marvel, the “Amazing Iceman”.
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