Strength coach Brian MacKenzie uses Wim Hof breathing and cold exposure to speed recovery after hard workouts. The breathing protocol hits a meditative state in under three minutes, faster than traditional meditation. He credits the method with better health and consciousness, and recommends the online course.
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My name is Brian McKenzie. I'm a strength and conditioning movement specialist that works in sport. I learned how to apply new techniques to training through movement and through exercise. When we found the Wim Hof Method, I had never been able to really get into meditation or a lot of breathing stuff, and I was messing around with training mask I became very curious about breathing at that point because the training mask allowed me to get into a better position and breathe more. Then we came into the Iceman stuff and we literally found a way that we could do meditation without really doing meditation. I'm not somebody who likes to sit for 20 minutes and do nothing and try and be quiet. I'm somebody who wants to do a lot in 20 minutes. Through the breathing exercises, it's not— you don't— you're never in a place where you are really kind of being in a deep meditative state. And what takes people like 20 minutes or even sometimes a lifetime to achieve with meditation can be achieved in 3, less than 3 minutes with, with this method. The most important thing about training is that you recover. Recovery becomes quicker, faster, and the body is able to respond and get back to doing what it should be doing sooner. So it's, it's been a very, very big help to what we've done. It's played a very large role in what we've done. For myself, it's changed my life from a health standpoint, from a centering or consciousness standpoint, from an openness standpoint, all of that. The online course, it's a must for somebody to establish a foundation in anything. And the online course provides that foundation. Wim Hof rules!
