One of my most powerful health Generating tools
- johnfitzfitness
- Sep 14, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 16
While there are a host of breathwork practices and tactics The Basic Wim Hof Breathing technique has gotten me much further than any other and when you look at the benefits. It’s not hard to wonder why.
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known for completing intense feats of physical endurance in extreme temperature conditions, leading to over 20 world records. the Wim Hof Method is a series of breathing exercises that results in your ability to hold your breath for progressively longer periods of time on a negative breath hold.
you can begin with his basic breathwork technique. It consists of thirty cycles of continuous breathing, no pauses between each inhalation and exhalation. Each exhalation should be relaxed-meaning you should not force the exhale but should instead leave some air in the lungs, so that you breathe in more oxygen than you breathe out.
At the end of thirty breath cycles, exhale and hold your breath for as long as possible with no air in your lungs. This can be timed and recorded to track your gains. You will get the urge to breathe. At that point, inhale and hold your breath for as long as you can. You can squeeze your forehead a little to get more blood flow to the brain. Repeat this process, starting with the same thirty breath cycles again, for two or three rounds.
This breathwork technique dramatically stimulates hypoxia (lack of oxygen) and can even imitates hard training at altitude.
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