That being said, he supplements his breathing and coldness techniques with a mix of simple meditation and yoga type exercises.
I have to say his training techniques are very original. If anything, his methods are more direct and result driven. Hof’s technique and principles are not the same as tummo. Hof does with tummo, a Tibetan monk traditional training method to develop “internal fire”. Many people on the net try to compare what Mr. So, in terms of educative quality, the points are presented and can be understood but we do not really learn much about the scientific principles behind. The book is quite enjoyable if you are the curious kind interested in what physical limitations Mr.
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The book can be read as an inspirational book as oppose to being a training manual because it is not. I guess we have to blame the editor of the book for not doing a good job in organizing the materials. This also explains why the book itself was not well organized. At times re-watching the video is necessary to understand certain points better. Maybe he is not used to speak in English much as his native language is Dutch. Hof is clearly not a person who speak much in the public. It is another form of meditative practice that may work well for those who find rigorous exercise regime not possible and that meditation has been a big challenge to produce results.Īfter all the good things about the course being said, there are quite a number of annoying issues we have to discuss here.įirst, although the training methods are clearing shown in the video and much better than the book itself, which was written some years ago with only sketch description of his methods, Mr. The Wim Hof method, based on breathing exercise as the foundation, actually works well to bridge people from not able to meditate at all, to the point they can at least forget everything else during the training. For some people, it could mean months of practice with no results at all.
The problem, however, as I learned from teaching others basic meditation, is that not everyone can benefit from meditation quickly. Many famous fund managers use meditation to achieve that. Why on Earth I review a physical training course?įor a lot of people, physical training may not be their first choice for improving awareness and mindfulness which are very important in trading. That is, the training works.īut this is a trading focus website. This answered at least one aspect about the course. It also improves my endurance as the recovery time from rigorous exercises is shorten significantly. Just 2 weeks after, I no longer feel the need for big winter jacket while walking in the street here where the windchill is -10 C. He showed me the lessons and I have been practising some of the routines since. It turns out, he likes what is written in the book so much that he has signed up for the video course too. I remember I have the book written by Mr. I figured I need a quick boost to help me get back in shape. I was quite out of shape after dropping off from my regular daily routines for about a year due to some extreme circumstances. Since the book is throw in as an part of the course, it will be reviewed here too. This review is about his 10-week video course on training normal people to benefit from his techniques. He has written a book, Becoming the Iceman, about his journey in figuring out his way to handle extreme cold weather. His ability to withstand extremely cold envrionment and being able to carry out extreme sports under the same condition is well known all around the world.