The Wim Hof Method

I agree with some other reviews - WHM is fascinating, but this book not so much. Lots of anecdotes and he repeats himself endlessly. Could've been a large pamphlet and just as effective.

Did this book have an editor? Certainly doesn't seem like it. It's not only that it's repetitive, the exact same sentences and conclusions are repeated several times. Narrative (if you can even call it that) is all over the place. Not to even mention all the mentions of “science” without any citations/sources. This book is a first draft at best that needs a lot of work to get it to a polished book.

Which is a shame, because the core of it (Wim Hof Method) is certainly a very interesting thing. Both breathing and cold water plunges/showering. But for that I think you're better off googling for it, or using the app. This book has the method spread throughout the book in several different variations without giving you a definitive/basic version explicitly. It's so badly edited. Or, more likely, it's completely unedited. First draft straight to print. Infuriating.

I've heard about Wim in the past, I've also practiced his breathing method a bit, and reading this book was a great way for me to find more about him and his method.

Wim discovered his inner potential on his own, and he's been teaching it for many years now. In the beginning, people didn't believe in him, but after scientific experiments that was done on him, most of the sceptics became believers.

He describes his method as a combination of cold exposure, breathing practices and mindset trainings, and claims that those can change our biochemistry in a matter of days. Practices like those aren't new. It's been known for thousands of years in certain eastern traditions. But Wim Hof is one of the first persons that voluntarily started to merge those practices into modern science and western society, which is very valuable for us because eastern teachings tend to be a bit mystical and not attractive for western folks. But with the help of people like Wim, we're being given techniques that can improve and even save many lives around the world.

It's been a few days that I've started taking cold showers and doing breathing exercises, and I already see some of the benefits.

Also, if you practice any form of meditation, the breathing practice that Wim suggests will put you in a perfect state for any meditative practice, so try it.