Wim HofInstructor and teacher, Wim Hof Method

Diving into extremes! 💪❄️🔥

18 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Wim Hof ran 42 km through the Namibia desert with only two coffees and no water, losing 5.2 liters of sweat while keeping his core temperature stable. Six months of cold training in the Arctic prepared his body to handle extreme heat, showing that temperature stress adaptation transfers across conditions.

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After I did a full record, in shorts, beyond the polar circle, a full marathon, I got it back. I did all the things. I did swimming, I did running, I did climbing, I did all the things in the cold. Now let me go into the heat. So half a year later, I had it organized together with a physiologist to Namibia and run in the Sossusvlei. Desert. I had 2 coffees and just started to run and for 42 kilometers without drinking any water. When I was running and losing 5.2 liters of water out of transpiring, sweating, but my core body temperature remained the same. That means what I did in the cold was learning how to deal with temperature, with stress, and it also worked in the heat. It was amazing.