Breathing Techniques and the Wim Hof Method

wim hof too i'm we've gotten big into the breathing so we're getting into i got into wim hof stuff which was awesome for resetting uh autonomic tone and now we've we've started magic like modifying some of his stuff and adding another stuff from yoga and I'm working on like free diving breathing because what I found was all of my friends at free dive, they're all shredded all the time. It doesn't matter what they eat. They're all shredded. You need oxygen to create energy. You need oxygen to keep your acid-base balance correct so your body's not constantly fighting acid. Most of these guys, they're always super chill, super calm and shredded. We kind of got into that. I find that the more you learn how to breathe and utilize oxygen the easier it is to stay lean and the easier it is to be able to eat your lollies or your tim tams without getting fat so that's always that's a bonus for me yes that's a bonus for me i was gonna say uh rickson hicks and grace here as they call it and spell with an r but um one of the og legends of the brazilian jiu-jitsu scene he says that if you can control your breath you can control your life 100 100 i've got a book called breathology that i'm starting to read and And it's by a really famous freediver. And it's got a lot of philosophical stuff in there about how breathing can completely transform your life. And when people get stressed out, they stop breathing normally. They start breathing with their chest and they don't use all of their lungs. I think it's also worth noting in that regard that we actually have a lot more control over ourselves than we think we do. Not just in regards to breathing but also in regards to lifestyle and like the epigenetics. So like your DNA and all that sort of stuff. Like we have a lot more say in how our body responds to stuff than most people realize. And that's something that Wim Hof is, they're doing research on him on how he's able to control his immune system, how he's able to keep his core body temperature elevated even though he's submerged in ice for over an hour, right? How he can run through the desert, run a marathon without drinking any water. Yeah, it's mind-blowing. it's so strange because I mean there's no scientific explanation for what's going on it seems like he's willing it to be so exactly and it's it's all part of that breathing and you know he may not be right about all the stuff and that's typically how it works we find a method that works now we have to figure out why it works and that's that's the goal of science is to prove or disprove stuff and then to figure out the why something works and it's it's pretty amazing that for a long time we didn't think that we had any control of our autonomic nervous system but what he's shown is you absolutely have control but you have just like anything else you have to practice and you have to work on it and I can tell you right now as I'm as I'm trying to develop these new breathing techniques that we use in our practice you put on a heart rate monitor like a bioforce or put on a polar h7 or what what have you that measures your heart rate variability put it on the bio force app or put it on the lead HRV or put it on sweet beat or whatever app you use practice your breathing and watch what happens to your your heart rate variability and what I'll typically do is is to teach somebody this I'll start doing some hyperventilation training and I can completely crash their HRV and then so their their sympathetic system is getting all crazy and then I've got techniques to bring them back out of that and actually jump

their HRV 10 or 15 points above where they started when they first started the practice. So have you seen in the hard data in terms of your own personal experience from implementing Wim Hof methods, have you noticed that, you know, you've been able to consistently drop your HRV or your HR? A hundred percent. Like when I first started messing around with it, my heart rate was in the mid seventies. Like after I left Pollock and group that I was a very, it was a very stressful time for me the last, the year after that. And, you know, I was having a hard time controlling my stress and it was it was not. So I started measuring my HRV. My HRV was around 48 to 52. My my rest, my waking heart rate would be anywhere from 75 to 80. I started doing using Joel Jamison stuff and started doing different types of techniques for aerobic work. I cut my training down a little bit, started doing stretching and aerobics that helped a lot. But once I started doing the Wim Hof breathing, within a week, my HRV was 81 and my heart rate was 52.