Credible yet incredible. Great book. Great story. Thanks for bringing a scientific discipline and narrative drive to the Wim Hof story. He's a great man.
That's wild, what a trip that must have been,,thanks for taking the time to share all this,five years ago when I found the method I watched every interview I could find of wim and if one takes the time he reveals little bits of practice tricks ,dudes a character for sure,
That intrathoracic pressure squeeze may gives us the same benefits as the Valsalva maneuver. It creates more room for your heart to beat easier, relaxes cerebral blood flow, and pushes blood to your extremities. It's magic sauce!
Just finished reading your book "what doesn't kill us". Repeat reading the Kilimanjaro chapter. Probably will repeat read a few others as well. Apart from you doing a few wild and crazy things I really like your writing style. Keep it going 👍
Thanks so much! You might want to check out "The Wedge," too. It is a straight sequel to WDKU and goes into a bunch of other ways you can use the WHM principles in a diverse array of environments. www.amazon.com/dp/B085CMTMLM
Hey man, just saw you linked this from /becomingtheiceman! Really great story+techniques and I'm looking forward to checking out more of your stuff and your book too
How does the hyperventilation actually looks like when you ascent? You showed in your Video at 8:32 how it looks when you stop to do it because of SPO2 drops below 85... But i am wondering how does it actually looks when you are in ascent. Also on cold mountain hyperventilating using mouth will increase the chances of dry throat other issues.. Any way to deal with those?
@sgcarney cool video! I love when you expanded on what Wim said. So much, I decided to ask you a question: I've been in and out of Wim's method for a while now and maybe you can help me regain interest in it. In short/TLDR: do you have any opinions/suggestions on how to use the method in real life? Long version: A lot of the feats/benefits that are discussed when talking about Wim are physical and most of them artificially created: purposefully not using a jacket, when you could have. Withstanding cold temperatures that you need to seek out and put yourself in (I've looked at large freezers myself). I was wondering what your experience has been with using it for non-artificial/real situations. Day to day of a normal person, let's say. Let's say we have 2 subjects: 1) an athlete (MMA fighter for example) 2) an analyst at a bank. How can the program be used for these folks above? I know Overeem (MMA) has trained with Wim before. I wish I knew more about the takeaways of this experience. Most of people's lives are comparable to the analyst at a bank. It's not flashy. I was wondering how one can use it to focus more on non-artificial/real situations. I consider climbing a mountain an artificial situation as far as day-to-day goes and I hope you do too. I don't do that on a daily basis but have done it a couple of times before. While I love that folks can do these physical feats and somehow come out alive, in my much boring day to day I don't really know how to leverage the method. Are the day-to-day benefits just side effects such as maybe being more calm when facing an issue at work for example. Maybe knowing that you CAN climb a mountain impacts your day to day? In your situation as a writer/content producer, you likely do a lot of work. Does Wim's method help you in any way? Clearly, it gave you something to write about, which is great! But other than that, could you share some insight on how it helps? I've asked this question in the Facebook group, the community section of the program itself (where you log in and see the courses) and never got a straight answer. I'm only asking you here because you seem to have been able to decode/translate a lot of the value Wim gives. My specific use case is getting higher mental output (increased focus would be great) would be great. I hope this comes across in the right way. I do think there are benefits from the method and I think it is ME the one that can't put it to use in more boring/normal things in life.
Thanks for asking this. The short answer is that these were the same questions that I had when I began writing my follow up to WDKU called "The Wedge." I think that might be a good place to start.
Hi Scott, thank you very much for your video. I have been practicing the method since 2020. In 10 days I travel to Aconcagua. Do you recommend that I only take deep breaths at altitude or also that after 30 or 40 breaths I exhale and I am left without breathing for 1 or 2 minutes? Thank you very much again
Super cool info! I always get altitude headaches at 9000 feet so I'll try this next time I'm there. I'm still trying to incorporate the breathwork. It usually hurts my nose. Any suggestions?
You might be in a very dry climate (this is a guess). I only do the WHM breathwork through my mouth--I believe this is the most efficient way to blow off CO2, which is one of the main mechanisms of the WHM. So my suggestion is to mouthbreathe it.
Man, you just came so right in time. In the past i did 2 trekking above 4000m and the 2 times my headaches were terrible and had heart rate of 120 while sitting, even with acclimation and slow progress. This July i will go to Huayhuash in Peru to do another 4000m, but with less time to acclimate. A few weeks ago i re-started the breathing session and re-reading the WDKU for these kind of tips. I am honestly a litte bit afraid, so I am trying everything I can. One question: while walking on the mountain, you breath normally and only do those hard breathing every 30 minutes if necessary, or you maintain a deep breath all the trekking? Thanks! Regards from Argentina!
"Headaches inevitably spring up"? No, they do not, only if you go too high too fast. I have been about 25 times at over 5000m (including Kili) and couple of times at over 6000m (including Aconcagua) and never had a headache. If you get a headache you either have HAPE or are getting it.
@@sgcarney In the introduction you say "inevitable headaches", they are not. Anyway: twice you say acclimatisation is about increased red cell count, that is only a small part of it. Actually the haemoglobin level a person has is not a reliable indicator of how he will manage at altitude. Acclimatisation is much more complicated than that. You talk about 20% oxygen in the air, everywhere, Then start to explain about only 10% at altitude in each breath. What? There is always 20 % O2 in the air whatever the altitude, the amount of air just gets less. You are explaining a simple thing totally wrong. The will believe this breathing "system" when a real medical authority. like the high altitude medical center in Telluride starts to enforce it after proper scientific study, not before. Until that happens it remains just another RUclips BS hack.
Wim Hof is a hero to many. He inspired me to set up the Breath Power RUclips channel.
Credible yet incredible. Great book. Great story. Thanks for bringing a scientific discipline and narrative drive to the Wim Hof story. He's a great man.
I'm lucky to have met him when I did!
That's wild, what a trip that must have been,,thanks for taking the time to share all this,five years ago when I found the method I watched every interview I could find of wim and if one takes the time he reveals little bits of practice tricks ,dudes a character for sure,
Thanks for making this video Scott. Loved "What Doesn't Kill Us"; just subscribed to the channel!
Absolutely! Thanks for subscribing. More to come.
That intrathoracic pressure squeeze may gives us the same benefits as the Valsalva maneuver. It creates more room for your heart to beat easier, relaxes cerebral blood flow, and pushes blood to your extremities. It's magic sauce!
How is it different from the Valsalva maneuver? I through they were pretty similar (but I don't do any powerlifting, so what do I know?)
06:33 With the power of your mind rather than the passivity of a pill
11:21 DMT breathing
Just finished reading your book "what doesn't kill us".
Repeat reading the Kilimanjaro chapter.
Probably will repeat read a few others as well.
Apart from you doing a few wild and crazy things I really like your writing style.
Keep it going 👍
Thanks so much! You might want to check out "The Wedge," too. It is a straight sequel to WDKU and goes into a bunch of other ways you can use the WHM principles in a diverse array of environments. www.amazon.com/dp/B085CMTMLM
Hey man, just saw you linked this from /becomingtheiceman! Really great story+techniques and I'm looking forward to checking out more of your stuff and your book too
Awesome, thank you!
Focus in place, neurotransmitters in place,... We got a plan! 😂 Thankfully Wim seems to be a competent mad man!
Sort of a word-salad. Listening to Wim requires a but of recalibration (and ignoring some nonsense)
Thanks Scott!
You bet!
Would be great to hear about your experience with ayahuasca Scott 🙏🏻💚
7 days in Peru with 3 aya ceremonies. It's the last chapter in The Wedge. I'll do a video eventually.
How does the hyperventilation actually looks like when you ascent? You showed in your Video at 8:32 how it looks when you stop to do it because of SPO2 drops below 85... But i am wondering how does it actually looks when you are in ascent.
Also on cold mountain hyperventilating using mouth will increase the chances of dry throat other issues.. Any way to deal with those?
Absolute maniacs! Good luck
Thanks! It was a little scary to have a whole bunch of experiences mountaineers tell us this was a suicide mission.
@@sgcarney also well done!
@sgcarney cool video! I love when you expanded on what Wim said. So much, I decided to ask you a question: I've been in and out of Wim's method for a while now and maybe you can help me regain interest in it.
In short/TLDR: do you have any opinions/suggestions on how to use the method in real life?
Long version:
A lot of the feats/benefits that are discussed when talking about Wim are physical and most of them artificially created: purposefully not using a jacket, when you could have. Withstanding cold temperatures that you need to seek out and put yourself in (I've looked at large freezers myself).
I was wondering what your experience has been with using it for non-artificial/real situations. Day to day of a normal person, let's say. Let's say we have 2 subjects: 1) an athlete (MMA fighter for example) 2) an analyst at a bank.
How can the program be used for these folks above? I know Overeem (MMA) has trained with Wim before. I wish I knew more about the takeaways of this experience. Most of people's lives are comparable to the analyst at a bank. It's not flashy.
I was wondering how one can use it to focus more on non-artificial/real situations. I consider climbing a mountain an artificial situation as far as day-to-day goes and I hope you do too. I don't do that on a daily basis but have done it a couple of times before. While I love that folks can do these physical feats and somehow come out alive, in my much boring day to day I don't really know how to leverage the method. Are the day-to-day benefits just side effects such as maybe being more calm when facing an issue at work for example. Maybe knowing that you CAN climb a mountain impacts your day to day?
In your situation as a writer/content producer, you likely do a lot of work. Does Wim's method help you in any way? Clearly, it gave you something to write about, which is great! But other than that, could you share some insight on how it helps?
I've asked this question in the Facebook group, the community section of the program itself (where you log in and see the courses) and never got a straight answer. I'm only asking you here because you seem to have been able to decode/translate a lot of the value Wim gives. My specific use case is getting higher mental output (increased focus would be great) would be great.
I hope this comes across in the right way. I do think there are benefits from the method and I think it is ME the one that can't put it to use in more boring/normal things in life.
Thanks for asking this. The short answer is that these were the same questions that I had when I began writing my follow up to WDKU called "The Wedge." I think that might be a good place to start.
@@sgcarney alright, just ordered a copy :) . Thanks!
Read the book but great to get some visuals
For the night time breathing could you have used CPAP machines? (I know that's probably not super practical but it was what first came to mind)
Yeah that might have worked, too
Yep, it is truth. I almost pass out 😆 fun hahah also left me with tinnitus for a couple of minutes 😱 I had to experience that 🙃
Hi Scott, thank you very much for your video. I have been practicing the method since 2020. In 10 days I travel to Aconcagua. Do you recommend that I only take deep breaths at altitude or also that after 30 or 40 breaths I exhale and I am left without breathing for 1 or 2 minutes? Thank you very much again
Don't ever do retentions while climbing the mountain. It will lower your blood O2 levels and accelerate altitude sickness.
Mansplaining at its best
At its best?
Super cool info! I always get altitude headaches at 9000 feet so I'll try this next time I'm there.
I'm still trying to incorporate the breathwork. It usually hurts my nose. Any suggestions?
You might be in a very dry climate (this is a guess). I only do the WHM breathwork through my mouth--I believe this is the most efficient way to blow off CO2, which is one of the main mechanisms of the WHM. So my suggestion is to mouthbreathe it.
11:44 DMT Breathing Instructions
Is there any evidence breathing affects DMT ?
Man, you just came so right in time. In the past i did 2 trekking above 4000m and the 2 times my headaches were terrible and had heart rate of 120 while sitting, even with acclimation and slow progress. This July i will go to Huayhuash in Peru to do another 4000m, but with less time to acclimate.
A few weeks ago i re-started the breathing session and re-reading the WDKU for these kind of tips.
I am honestly a litte bit afraid, so I am trying everything I can.
One question: while walking on the mountain, you breath normally and only do those hard breathing every 30 minutes if necessary, or you maintain a deep breath all the trekking?
Thanks!
Regards from Argentina!
Good luck on your treks. Do the breathing constantly. The whole time. Never stop.
"Headaches inevitably spring up"? No, they do not, only if you go too high too fast. I have been about 25 times at over 5000m (including Kili) and couple of times at over 6000m (including Aconcagua) and never had a headache. If you get a headache you either have HAPE or are getting it.
From the timestamp on your comments, you didn't watch the video. I address the exact things you're talking about here.
@@sgcarney In the introduction you say "inevitable headaches", they are not. Anyway: twice you say acclimatisation is about increased red cell count, that is only a small part of it. Actually the haemoglobin level a person has is not a reliable indicator of how he will manage at altitude. Acclimatisation is much more complicated than that.
You talk about 20% oxygen in the air, everywhere, Then start to explain about only 10% at altitude in each breath. What? There is always 20 % O2 in the air whatever the altitude, the amount of air just gets less. You are explaining a simple thing totally wrong.
The will believe this breathing "system" when a real medical authority. like the high altitude medical center in Telluride starts to enforce it after proper scientific study, not before. Until that happens it remains just another RUclips BS hack.
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