Wim Hof?

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Anyone follow the Wim Hof method? Does it actually work? Please give me your experiences!

Or AIBU to think it's just him trying to sell books?

I do think there’s something in it. I tried the breathing technique this morning actually and did feel really good after. I also tried open water swimming last week and really enjoyed it (albeit in a wetsuit, gloves and booties!)

I've been cold water swimming for a couple of months now and it definitely lifts my mood, clears the mind and gives me a really good sense of well-being. Some of the stuff Wim Hof does though is pretty extreme for normal folk!

He's taken elements of other disciplines, yoga, meditation, thermalism etc and put them together. So, yes what he advocates can improve your health, body/mental well-being. Not everyone could do what he does, we all have things that we can stand more than others, which is how we'd find out place in the old tribal systems.

I open water swim every week all year round in just a swimming costume and it is genuinely life changing. I feel alive because of it.