I tried Wim Hof breathing for the first time and I'm intrigued by the things he's supposedly able to endure, but I can't seem to get a straightforward answer about what these exercises are supposed to be doing in my body. Just a lot of other guys saying Wim Hof breathing is dangerous because you may drown, which sounds like pilpul designed to keep me away from miracle cancer cures to me. Does anyone else follow his methods? For how long/often and have you noticed any benefits?
>>74214198>breathing will cure your [insert current diagnosis here]it's a scam targeting scared vulnerable people worried about their health
>>74214213But he also does cold plunge and sauna which I have done before because it is supposedly good for your blood vessels and circulation. It made me extremely tired afterwards. I was also tired after the Wim Hof breathing.
From what I have read he is basically the white guy that learned tummo breathing, it would be virtually impossible to get to his level without being taught by someone else who can guide you through the exercises. But you should still do breathing exercises especially buteyko.
>>74214370I mainly want to learn Yoga Firehttps://youtu.be/_-l2QBbJ3E8?si=0FSKtPgG_40FEz6Y
>>74214370>tummo breathing>butekyointeresting. I'll look into these terms. had not heard of that. But you think it can't be guided through instructions on a video? Which would imply the instructor needs to see/touch your body while you do them?
>>74214198>QRD on Wim Hofgrift
>>74214198I paid hundreds of dollars for his course. Do 90 hyperventilating breaths and you are guaranteed to feel some of it. It is tedious but worth it. It reversed my celiac disease to such an extent my autoimmune response to gluten was negligible for 90% of my exposure period. It turned what was normally an inflammatory response of bedridden week's worth of mayhem into 3 hours of a mild migraine and bloated belly ache. I could do 80 pushups in one breath when before I struggled to crank out 25 ordinary pushups. Going into ice baths and ice pools I activated this super saiyain cloud of vapor off of me like a walking sauna. The ice baths were the best part. I really enjoyed them. They made me supple. They gave me an unlimited gas tank of David Goggins level stamina but for boxing not running. Protip cover yourself in coconut fat and run up a death mountain. Why? Because it's fun.
>>74214370Yeah but why is he so much better at it? Us it because he learned it on his own and didn't have some traditionalist crippling his exploration? He has done some pretty amazing things
>>74214511It is a bitch to do WHM outside of an icy biome. Moving to the southwest I kept it up for 3 years everyday until I caved and let that old questline rot like old abandoned exercise equipment. It is pure tenacity. You lose the benefits quickly as they came but you dont lose the healed heals.
>>74214527Tibetans are not big into media projects but they are genetically better than Wim at a pedigree level for this task.
>>74214511Thanks for being thorough.>>74214532What bennies do you think it gave you?
>>74214540Never seen any Tibetans do anything in the cold. They are not a mystery to the rest of the world either anymore and we have never seen the extreme cold mastery from any of them. Maybe because they are taught by other people controlling their path and not the cold?
>>74214549>>74214549Benefits:WD40 for your insides.NO2 video game boost for your bloodstream. It is like morphine mind seperation for many of your pains. I started working my way up to breaking boards in martial arts independent of a teacher. I broke some tiles and small boards but nothing big before I feared doing something stupid by myself. The ice baths had conditioned me to be fearless at launching full force punches at walls and shin kicks that bent aluminum pipes.Emotionally the ice victory is like what I imagine smoking meth is like yet booting up a calculator like Neo from the matrix. I ended up screaming at a blizzard and eating a whole box of chocolate mint cookies at a mountain peak that almost blew me off into the cavernous abyss. It will kill muscle building because you desperately need muscle inflammation to build muscle. But it will improve your coordination and neural drive to milk the most power out of your nerves. Sleep will improve. My libido was shot during a year of post break up abstinence/total mental chastity so I cannot call this a boner pill. It probably is the opposite considering how often your penis is inactive and at its smallest. That awoke this primal fear of eunuchizing in me that made me go on my looksmaxxing swipe app quest to put myself out there again. >>74214577They aren't stunt men outside of being sherpas, towel melting contestants, and genetic lab subjects. From what I have seen but I imagine there is more than meets the eye despite satellites and google.
>>74214605Walls being makiwaras* not being a real estate nightmare nigger
>>74214198I once witnessed Wim Hof do his trademark breathing technique and then fire off a massive kamehameha waveno lie
>>74214620BasedHe is Real Life Roshi
>>74214605Good stuff. So to be clear you are talking about the hyperventilating breathing exercises combined with I assume ice baths or other prolonged cold exposure (in combo with sauna? hot/cold cycling? or just cold) and it reduces inflammation in your whole body as well as stamina and mental ability increases. Were there any additional methods I'm missing besides cold and breathing?
>>74214213It's a scam for what? He's not making money by just telling you how to breathe.
>>74214640>>74214640Correct.All I tried were the breaths and the ice methods. I also have done my own eastern quest forays and had little fruit out of that besides Indians looking at me unwelcomingly weird at temples. The few yoga postures he recommends are to get bloodflow into the articulations. Do not sleep on the simple legs in the air or shoving your head up your ass past your knees. I replaced all other yoga with just powercleans and have been doing better. While the simple leg raise posture progresses nothing it prevents circulatory stagnation everytime. While you are beginner it is recommended to wear gloves, boots, and a hat into cold hikes. It takes quite a bit of focused training to overcome this and it is easy to slide back. I have never been able to get over the heat only the cold as much as I have wanted to. I think Wim must have tried Bikram Yoga which I have not delved into.
>>74214659He is and I handed him my money hand over fist with utmost respect and gratitude above all TRUSTED EXPERTS (fat wheezing losers)
>>74214676Would you say one session of say 5 hyperventilation/hold cycles (the ones he instructs to do, you know) per day is sufficient? Two times, one in morning and one at night? Or is it more like you should do however much you can fit in your day because the benefits compound? thanks bro I appreciate your experience
>>74214198he didn't invent itit gets you high if you're good at it, oxytocin, makes you feel warm and loved and have realistic flashbacks of nostalgia
>>74214716Hard to say. Its a nerve thing more than an O2 thing in my opinion. The variability is insane. The ice baths are the only sensible falsifiable skillcheck. I hate tedious tasks. I love Mentzer's HIT and Rip's SS because of how far from tedious it is. It's more like lighting an ember than putting reps in. I follow Mentzer's philosophy for WHM progressive overload. I am missing the elephant in the room of Bikram to see the missing link of pure breathing exercises in the S*uthwest. My ex gf from India is a researcher who had the answer but shes gone and I am so sad to have lost a gold mine of future tier medical knowledge (and lovable gf but that's offtopic).
>>74214740>oxytocin, makes you feel warm and loved and have realistic flashbacks of nostalgiaAs a child of emotional neglect this sounds fake, gay, overwhelming and scary and I need it bad
>>74214762Imagine you felt about a person the way your dog feels about you
>>74214771We call that "oneitis" in post-industrial, post-no fault divorce Weimerica
>>74214771I had a kot for 21 years. He was the closest thing I have ever felt to love. But he's dead now. I'll try the exercises.
>>74214267>good for your blood vessels and circulationyet dude looks like homeless drunk xD
>>74214198Wim Hof public fountain enema puncture injury
>>74214198His mindset around cold is great, especially if you live in a cold climate. After starting his cold exposure methods I get sick way less often and feel way less discomfort about cold weather. It's not a miracle cure but it's just really good for strenghtening your immune system.>Wim Hof breathing is dangerous because you may drownYou're not supposed to do the breathing in water so idk where you got that fromI never felt many benefits from the breathing personally but it's a great meditation exercise
Is the breathing really important? I have that up but continued the cold exposure and it's been life changing enough as is. I have so much more energy and can deal much better with heat stress and emotional stress.
>>74214762same I have never felt emotional connection or close to someone and I curse the day I was born
>>74214213Nothing that's free can be a scam you brainlet.
>>74214198This is the guy with a twin brother, right? The one that, when tested in a cold water tank against his twin brother that doesn't do any of this bullshit at all, the only difference was that the grifter (((CLAIMED))) to feel more comfortable.Any thermic effect from the breathing is just a matter of the fact that with all that focused breathing you're actually exercising. No shit you get warmer when you exercise.
>Do the breathing on and off and it definitely helped me calm down, center myself>Even helped me reduce my confusion migraines to such an extent that I was breathing them away (including the worst symptoms as losing ability to coherently speak or think of words to use, white spots in vision remained)>Had a bunch of issues after, noticed my breathing was kind of fucked and apparently if you do it unsupervised you can fuck up correct belly breathing posture or whatever shit>Picked up since a long time, felt calm and centered for the entire day doing it in the morning>Resting heartrate seems to be lower than usual after doing it>Somehow feel like my chest is more free, I can breath easier, like I am actually properly utilize my chest mobility to breath, if that's a thingI am going to keep this up and do it every morning after waking up, see how it affects everything, especially with being consisten. A bunch of non-meme questions for other anons >When going for the breath hold (breahing out) do you actually fully exhale? How the fuck do you last past 15 seconds in that case?>Has anyone of you done any courses that you feel are worth it, most of it seem a bit gimmick-ish>i.e. icebaths and shit are cool, but I really just want to be able to do breathwork to center, calm and meditate my bitch ass stress away and I don't have room for a cold-plunge or access to a facility that provides that service
>>74215925>the breathingNo>Breathing Yes
WHM Sciencehttps://youtu.be/A6jqaALpEFM?si=AZdXEWC26DTlU22D
>>74216701>>When going for the breath hold (breahing out) do you actually fully exhale? How the fuck do you last past 15 seconds in that case?I do fully exhale. I didn't have a problem with holding my breath after that (I went back to the video to confirm it was actually 90 seconds and was surprised, I didn't know I could hold my breath that long.) How's your cardio? I do a lot of low impact cardio. I also don't smoke although I was a weed smoker until recently. Do you smoke? Is it a mental feeling (like fear of suffocating) that makes you breathe in or do you really feel like you're out of oxygen? I'm sure you can work your way up, lots of resources out there for swimmers to increase the time they can hold their breath.
>>74217424Between fasting for autophagy/insulin sensitivity, and wim hof breathing for immunity, I will live disease free indefinitely until one day I can achieve the American dream of being stabbed by a fentanyl addict.
>>74214198Marketing Genius. He literally sells breathing.
>>74214198i want you to really stop and look at that picture of a 60 year old man playing karate kid dressup in the snow, then i want you to read about how he literally blew his own intestine open by giving himself an enema with a public park fountain. then i want you to consider if this somebody you want to take literally any kind of advice from
depressed crazy alcoholic on a perpetual grift
>>74214762>>74214771>>74216025it's great and + you are meditating during the empty lungs hold part
Friendly reminder that he trained some faggot journo from VICE and had that fucking nerd hanging out on a mountaintop in Poland in shorts like it was nothing.
>>74218411>>74218878Which one of you is right?
>>74218411checked and you make a good point but I think he looks decent for 65. He can be nuts and still be right about some things. I'm trying to figure out which
>>74218878wow the guy stood there for 3 seconds with his shirt off while the picture was being taken?
>>74214198He's a retarded Dutch faggot grifter who happened to have been born with a rare gene that allows him to maintain his body heat in freezing temperatures. He claims to have developed some completely bullshit breathing technique that allows anybody to withstand freezing temperatures, except 99% of the population doesn't have the gene he has and would contract hypothermia. Several people have actually died attempting it.tl;dr he's a huge homo faggot and so are you if you listen to him.
>>74214659>>74216630>pornINB4 >you're paying for it!!!! reeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>74218936>>74219315>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1ZwVICE may be gay and retarded, but VICE from 2015 at least wasn't fake.
>>74214198This is cool and all but how do his skills help anyone in general? Unless we are going to be facing a nuclear winter apocalypse, anything beyond reducing stress and aiding recovery seems a bit pointless
>>74214198>Just a lot of other guys saying Wim Hof breathing is dangerous because you may drownThat isn't "other guys", retard. That's the generic disclaimer/warning you see in front of every video/article/course about the method, including those published by Wim & co. themselves.
>>74214213How does what you said not apply to the entire medical industry?
>>74214198dude blew up his asshole on a public fountainthis freak goes to the park, sees a nozzle for shooting water like 30 feet in the air, and says>better wrap my anus around thatthen he screams and bleeds out his ass and the ambulance comes and you were walking your dog but now you're shielding your kid's eyes and leavingImagine taking advice from such a man
>>74219376But reducing stress and inflammation is huge for the health of your body.
>>74214198>google wim hof fountain enema>its actually real
>People arguing over a nigga breathinglmao you niggas will argue over anything no wonder you get no bitches
>>74218878I remember seeing part of this and thinking wow no wonder Wim Hof is doing better than the journo kid, his core is like 3x the volume>>74219931lmfao it is
>>74219743The fuck? Is this real? Lmao.
>>74220036yeah man water in your butt man it's health, you can get out the extra poop, enemas are esoteric and yogic, the ancients knew
>>74219743Based madmanThis is the Aryan spirit
>>74219931uhhhh fukken saved. I support the coming AI overlords
>>74220063Pet gets a treat for being obedient
>>74214198Whenever I try his breathing method I just feel tired and a slight headache, never any kind of happy feelings come up
>>74219743you missed the way best part. he was on his way to meet his grown son at the airport who he hadnt seen in yearsthats right, on the way to be reunited with his estranged son he stopped at the park for a public prostate massage and blew his asshole out so the son had to go see him in the hospital insteadAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>74214403tummo cant be self learned, no way. buteyko is just a philosphy regarding breathing exercises, maximizing the feeling of hunger for air.
>>74221031thanks for the book recs
>>74221031> just read 700 books to learn to breathe retard
>>742215394 of those you could read in one day
>>74217496I'd say my cardio is okay, could be better. But I definitely have issues with both>Fear of not being able to breath>Breathing correctly normallyNo smoking or other shit that should affect it, I'm just going to google swimmer breathe holds or some shit. For now I breathe out but I guess it's like 75%. Basically letting it relax, but not pushing the last air out, if that makes sense.I'm wondering whether I should join a clinic or workshop, but I have a feeling there will be too many people there and I won't get the pointers or instructions I need.
>>74219376they are not just his skills. it is a known Tibetan practice.. less known now that china had taken military control of the area and exterminated the population as they will likely be doing in canada and and here if we don't put up some effort towards resistance sooner or later
>>74222039wow! and then ill know to breathe in the PROPER WIM HOF™ way??!? does he have a book on public park enemas i can read in a day too?
>>74214198Is that fuckin Netero?
>Look up the wim hof fountain enema>It's a comment on reddit, from an author who wrote a book about him, posted several years after writing the bookWhether or not it actually happened is one question. What it does or doesn't have to do with anything he teaches people how to do is another question. But the most important question on my mind right now is why you fucking faggot r*dditors are here. Fuck off back to r/fitness. You are not welcome here.
>>74224496> le plebbit le faggots im le cool because i piss my worthless life away on a DIFFERENT popular website retard. youre definitely a perfect candidate for the wim hof cult
>>74219743hey it worked fine until they replaced the jet with the more powerful one
>>74224496>It's a comment on redditI just read the Dutch article instead
>>74220836lmao
retarded, adds excess stress to your systembuteyko breathing is better
>>74214198how can one "dissociate" from his anxious self? like i'm an ADHD + anxiety riddled zoomer. How can i trigger the flow state and enter the zone when i want and need. I just want to be focused on command and put aside the rest :/
>>74227155https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomoxetine
>>74227155>anxietycold showers and the breathing technique help with that specifically, highly recommended
>>74214511It does feel great afterwards but yeah, it's such a chore to do every day.
>>74216701>When going for the breath hold (breahing out) do you actually fully exhale? How the fuck do you last past 15 seconds in that case?Same, I exhale like 80% and last around 180s. Maybe we're doing the breathing equivalent of ego lifting and we should breath out 100%? I might try alternating in a bit
>>74224496>>74215479>my hero literally got ass blasted fucking around>son come pick me up>dad what did you do>no time to explain quick its an emergency>oh god what the fuck did you doMind blown
>>74228666Spaghetti story
