Mike Posner tried Wim Hof breathwork and felt like he'd found a cheat code. Three specific breaths unlocked something he'd never experienced in 33 years, a physiological rush he compares to a video game power-up.
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Well, the first time I did the Wim Hof breathwork seriously with Wim and these guys in the workshop environment, the way I felt and the way I do feel when, you know, even we did the breath today and I felt it again, and it's damn powerful. It's damn powerful. Hold it in. Let it go. It felt like I was putting a cheat code into my body or something. We used to play these old video games when I was a kid on like N64 and if you hit certain buttons in a certain order, it'd give you some special power. Well, this is kind of what it felt like. It's like if you breathe in this certain way 3 times, then like bang, you get this special power. And it's like, well, how did I not know about that? I've been in this meat sack for 33 years now.