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A 3-month review of the Wim Hof Method Fundamentals Course. I have to start this off by saying that I am a massive Wim Hof fanboy and have been for years. This being said, I had been putting off the purchase of the full Wim Hof Method video courses. Well, that all changed about 6 months ago when I took the plunge and dropped £150 on the Wim.

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• The Wim Hof Method is a 10-week course consisting of breathing exercises, physical exercises (some yoga asanas), and tempering. The 10-week video course is a comprehensive program that is designed to help you achieve a deep understanding of the Wim Hof method. Through a series of carefully.

Summary

Wim Hof Method is a good alternative mind / body training to improve overall physical fitness and awareness for traders. The training materials are not as organized as desirable but they are functional. The course is a bit pricey but if you find that you need a solution outside of classic meditation or physical training, it can be the right course for you.

Service Information

Wim Hof Method 10-Week Video Course
Web access for a year to the course with online support forum

One-time fee of USD$247

Rating

Review

Mr. Wim Hof is a Dutch dare devil. 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. He has written a book, Becoming the Iceman, about his journey in figuring out his way to handle extreme cold weather. This review is about his 10-week video course on training normal people to benefit from his techniques. Since the book is throw in as an part of the course, it will be reviewed here too.

I was quite out of shape after dropping off from my regular daily routines for about a year due to some extreme circumstances. I figured I need a quick boost to help me get back in shape. I remember I have the book written by Mr. Hof lent to a friend long time ago. It is time to get it back.

It turns out, he likes what is written in the book so much that he has signed up for the video course too. He showed me the lessons and I have been practising some of the routines since. 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. It also improves my endurance as the recovery time from rigorous exercises is shorten significantly. This answered at least one aspect about the course. That is, the training works.

But this is a trading focus website. Why on Earth I review a physical training course?

For a lot of people, physical training may not be their first choice for improving awareness and mindfulness which are very important in trading. Many famous fund managers use meditation to achieve that. The problem, however, as I learned from teaching others basic meditation, is that not everyone can benefit from meditation quickly. For some people, it could mean months of practice with no results at all.

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. 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.

After all the good things about the course being said, there are quite a number of annoying issues we have to discuss here.

First, 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. Hof is clearly not a person who speak much in the public. Maybe he is not used to speak in English much as his native language is Dutch. At times re-watching the video is necessary to understand certain points better.

This also explains why the book itself was not well organized. Mr. Hof is clearly not the writer type. I guess we have to blame the editor of the book for not doing a good job in organizing the materials. The book can be read as an inspirational book as oppose to being a training manual because it is not. The book is quite enjoyable if you are the curious kind interested in what physical limitations Mr. Hof has overcome.

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.

Many people on the net try to compare what Mr. Hof does with tummo, a Tibetan monk traditional training method to develop “internal fire”. From my limited knowledge of tummo, Mr. Hof’s technique and principles are not the same as tummo. If anything, his methods are more direct and result driven.

I have to say his training techniques are very original. That being said, he supplements his breathing and coldness techniques with a mix of simple meditation and yoga type exercises. Those are not the core of his techniques. You can replace those with your own exercise routines and meditation practices easily.

The course is priced at $247. But you can get the book at Amazon for just $10. So the question is whether the extra $200 plus dollars really buy you something that you cannot get from the book.

I asked myself if I have not watched the videos, could I extrapolate the techniques from the book correctly? My honest answer is no. But majority of the videos I find them lacking in terms of production quality. Hence if you are going to buy the course and watch the videos online by yourself only, the value feels lacking.

If you have someone else in your family interested in learning the method with you, the cost per person for the training materials immediately becomes more reasonable.

Overall, if you are not into regular meditation nor rigorous exercise regime, the Wim Hof method could be a good in-between solution that can improve your health and overall mental strength to deal with the tough trading environment we face nowadays.

I have to start this off by saying that I am a massive Wim Hof fanboy and have been for years. This being said, I had been putting off the purchase of the full Wim Hof Method video courses.

Well, that all changed about 6 months ago when I took the plunge and dropped £150 on the Wim Hof Classic 10-week course. I threw myself into it head first and loved it.

But I wanted more.

That’s why I reached out to Wim and the team to see if they’d be game on sending me the Fundamentals course to see if it would meet my lofty standards.

Laura, Wim’s daughter, agreed to it and the next day I got cracking.

Who is Wim Hof?

Wim Hof is the main man.

He is a dutch ‘extreme athlete’, yogi, multiple world record holder and all round madman (in the best sense of the word).

Think this sort of thing, then imagine that all the time – and more extreme, and basically you’ve got the life of Wim Hof:

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I won’t drag out this bio because I can’t do him justice, but check out his Wikpedia page if you want to learn more. You’ll be flabbergasted by what this man has done in his life (marathon in the Sahara…with no water, etc, etc, etc.).

What is the Wim Hof Method?

Essentially, the method is stretching, breathing, stretching again and then cold water exposure.

An average bout looks something like this;

• Yoga poses
• 3 rounds of 30 Wim Hof style breaths (Deep inhale, shallow exhale, followed by max effort breath hold on last exhale and 15 second hold on the next inhale)
• More yoga poses with deep breathing
• Cold exposure in the form of cold showers or ice baths

It really is as simple as that. You can see it explained far better by Wim in the video below.

You can also see exactly how to do the breathing exercises correctly in this one:

Wim Hof Fundamentals vs Classic 10-week course

As stated at the beginning, I actually dropped £150 of my own dough on the Classic 10-week course – and was about to pay the £225 for the fundamentals course too before I shot the team a message.

So, what’s the difference? Why is one worth more than the other and do you need both?

The classic course is exactly that – it’s the original. It involves doing the breathing, post-breath stretching and then some yoga poses followed by cold exposure.

The fundamentals course goes deeper. There are more homework tasks, more variety of breath work and different little snippets that help to really perfect your practice, such as isolating your hands to cold water exposure to increase blood flow. This is meant to help battle Raynaud’s disease – something I, and a lot of people (whether known to them or not) actually suffer from.

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In short, the fundamentals course offers much more ‘take-home’ value than the classic course. That being said, I have taken lessons from both and applied them to my own variation of the method. This is just my favourite stretches, amount of breath work and length of cold exposure.

Once you have tried the method for a few months, you’ll get a feel for what you like best and can adjust your practice accordingly.

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How do the paid courses differ from the free one?

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In the full method, each week ramps up the intensity. You’ll do varied rounds of breath work, different styles of yoga and you’ll even get homework activities to take your practice to the next level.

The free method, to my knowledge, is just the breath-work tutorial and cold exposure. The stretching is actually a key component and I certainly felt the difference when I incorporated things like headstands, upward dogs and cat-cows into my practice.

With each paid course, you also get a workbook which allows you to log your breath retentions alongside the weekly videos of Wim guiding the class, a 1-on-1 breathing lesson, stretching how-to’s and your homework video. It’s rather jam-packed…

There’s also an option for a stripped back version if you’re ever in a rush. Perfect for you busybodies.

My progress

From week 1, I could feel the changes already taking place.

The one thing I noticed more than anything during my time on the fundamentals course was that my cardiovascular performance was absolutely flying.

I love the gym and lift weights 4 days a week, but I had always neglected my cardio, despite needing strong lungs for when I play football.

Silly boy I know…

But as the weeks passed by, I noticed that my breathing was becoming nice and steady, whereas before it had been quite laboured, even when walking around at a leisurely pace.

I also noticed that my mood improved greatly too. I’m usually a chilled out bloke, but I can get stressed out quite easily. Doing the breathing and the exercises was almost like meditation without having to meditate – if that makes sense?

It also helped curb my road rage which is a nice bonus…

Sleep was another huge improvement. I love sleep, don’t we all? But sometimes I find it really hard to nod off at night. My thoughts usually race around for what seems like forever until I finally drift off. After religiously doing the method for a few weeks, probably around week 5, I noticed I was getting off to sleep much quicker and wasn’t waking up at all in the night.

And finally, since starting on the Fundamentals course, I haven’t been ill once. This has coincided with switching back to a plant-based diet which I fully recommend if you want to really boost the benefits of the program.

Wim himself is a vegetarian, which I believe goes to show that it’s probably the way to go. Don’t take that as gospel though – if you want to crack on with the animal products, feel free. I’m not going to stop you.

But as someone who used to get sick constantly, this has been a godsend, so I won’t be going back.

Is the Wim Hof Fundamentals course worth it?

In my humblest of opinions – yes.

The Wim Hof Fundamentals course takes the regular method and completely pimps it up. This is the method that Wim teaches his in-person students and is what he uses to take them on a walk up mountains in blizzards wearing just their shoes and shorts.

It’s crazy. It’s mad. It goes against everything science has ever said. But it works.

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The Iceman has endured study after study, with science finally conceding that he has completely shifted the paradigm of what they thought the human body capable of. There’s a reason he holds 26 Guinness World Records…

If you want amazing health benefits, try out the free method. If you want to change your life, the fundamentals course is the way to go.

Wim Hof Method Breathing

I had been practicing the method for about 18 months prior to this review and I can’t tell you how much difference it made to actually sit down every day with a full plan laid out for me.

In short, the Wim Hof Method is an unbelievable tool for wellbeing. The Fundamentals course takes this a step further and takes you to health heights you never thought you could achieve.

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I’m not going to say to buy the courses straight away, because I didn’t. But definitely try the free method first and you can see the benefits first hand. When the time is right, you might want to then go and take the plunge.

Wim Hof Method Explained

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