The method was first held in disdain due to its simplicity and its primitive nature.
It is a practical way to become happier, healthier and more powerful.” Īccording to Wim: “The Wim Hof Method can be characterised by its simplicity, applicability and a strong scientific underpinning. Here was born the nickname ‘ The Iceman’ who would set a world record for fastest half marathon barefoot on ice and snow, with a time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 34 seconds in 2007 and climb to an altitude of 7,200 metres on Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes. During filming, Hof saved a man who had accidentally fallen through the ice.
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After plenty of persistence a TV crew agreed to film him jumping into holes he had cut out from a frozen lake. Shortly after, he began trying to popularise his methods. However, when his wife and mother of his four children committed suicide in 1995, he felt his breathing techniques and cold-water routine could help others suffering with poor mental health. This daily routine continued for the next 15 years, he kept his ideas to himself and carried on working and living a ‘normal’ life. In an interview with The Rolling Stone in 2017 he said: “I felt this attraction to the cold water, and then, after I went in, I felt this understanding, an inside connection. It was then he decided to strip down and take a dip, he enjoyed that much he went back the next day and did the same again, and again throughout the winter months. Then, in the winter of 1976, Wim was walking alongside a somewhat frozen Beatrixpark Canal when the urge came to him. By the age of 17 he was already very interested in Yoga, Karate and even Hinduism – not the average hobbies for a 17-year-old boy in the 1970’s. Hof was one of nine children born into a working-class family.
Here we take a look at the origins of the 'Wim Hof Method' (WHM) and assess its benefits, while uncovering some tips along the way. He was ridiculed for using a method seemingly so primitive, but he would eventually prove the doubters wrong. Hof claimed, boldly, that this theory was wrong. It was believed that ‘both the autonomic nervous system and innate immune system were regarded as systems that cannot be voluntarily influenced.” Before Wim Hof was born in Sittard, a city in the southernmost tip of the Netherlands in 1959, what he’s achieved was thought to be scientifically impossible.
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