S2E55 Breaking the Ice - an Interview with Wim Hof
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Wim Hof is known as “The Iceman” for his record-breaking physical feats, such as spending hours in freezing water and running barefoot marathons in ice fields. In this episode, the extreme athlete and global health leader explains how his simple, accessible and science-backed method for activating full potential can keep your body and mind in its optimal natural state.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The health benefits of taking a cold shower.
· The advantages of deep breathing exercises.
· Brian’s personal experiences with the method.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” by Robert M. Pirsig
“The Lord of the Rings,” movie
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Cold water brings you to the depth of your brain and body.” – Wim Hof
“If you cleanse yourself every day with a good cold shower, you train the cardiovascular system to the best.” – Wim Hof
“The cold has so many benefits.” – Wim Hof
“I've been showing fundamental shifts in medical understanding and physiology of what we as humans, naturally and willfully, can do within our minds and body.” – Wim Hof
“It is love that drives me.” – Wim Hof
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, |
| 0:07.6 | feel and do better. Here's your host, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you and it is a good life and it's about to get a little |
| 0:17.9 | better for all of you listening in today. We have a very, very special guest. His name is Wim Hof. |
| 0:24.1 | He's known as the Iceman. There are those of you who know that name instantly and those of you |
| 0:28.7 | who don't, which is why we want to do this program to get the word out to as many people as we can. |
| 0:33.9 | Wim has set many Guinness world records for swimming under ice and prolonged full body contact |
| 0:40.0 | with ice, even running a barefoot half marathon on ice. He hiked to the base camp and Mount |
| 0:45.4 | Everest with only shorts and shoes. He is an amazing individual. He developed a system called |
| 0:50.8 | a Wim Hof method, which is built on breath, mindset and cold. And I'm very excited to talk to you |
| 0:57.2 | about today because I've been practicing the Wim Hof method for about four months now. |
| 1:01.6 | And I've seen some remarkable results myself. I wanted to share this with people because it's |
| 1:06.1 | helped me so much. So Wim, thanks so much. Appreciate you, Dylann, and all the way from Europe and |
| 1:11.7 | join us here today. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Brian. I'm very pleased and I think I'm, |
| 1:19.1 | you know, I deeply believe in what I do, but then I brought it to science. So it's also a fact |
| 1:26.8 | that we actually one breath of way almost are able to get a much better hold over our bodies |
| 1:36.7 | and minds. Absolutely. And I've seen that myself and I've seen that with many people. Danny |
| 1:42.4 | just shared a story of some people who, you know, basically it's saved their life. So it's |
| 1:47.7 | remarkable stuff. And we want to dive into all that. Maybe you can give the folks a little bit of |
| 1:51.5 | a background and tell us a little bit about where you're from. I know you're a Dutchman, but |
| 1:56.7 | kind of where you grew up and how you got into the whole Iceman deal. The thing is I'm a normal guy |
| 2:02.3 | like anybody. Only I started my soul search very early in my life. Twelve years I was when I |
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