Wim HofInstructor and teacher, Wim Hof Method

Do you do the breathing exercise before sports?

10 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Wim Hof explains that performing his breathing exercise before athletic activity alkalizes and "cleanses" the body's biochemistry. He claims that exercise pushes the body into a slightly acidic state, leading to soreness, and that the pre‑exercise breathing removes this acidity, allowing athletes to experience longer endurance, better performance, and reduced fatigue.

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Can I do breathing before I do sports? That's the best because you alkalize your body. What happens when you go do sports, you exert your body's biochemistry to become sore because you use it. So if you go and do the breathing, you will cleanse the biochemistry in the depth of the body, which you do not notice when you just walking, but when you do sports, you will exert and get to that depth of the body normally, which is then slightly acidic. Now it has been cleansed. That's why we do the breathing, and that means you are able to do more sports, more longer endurance, and better.