this is wim hof i am the ice man i must be a genius because it's so simple to be happy just go into this ice bath is meeting the stress to the deepest see the mist it's cold i'm in holland i'm with the ice man it's pouring rain it's freezing and i'm gonna get an ice bath with this man who's already been in here for 45 minutes go down slowly and surely follow your breath follow your breath don't think about the camera just be oh man great this is awesome powerful everybody should do this it's
amazing you learn to deal with stress [Music] six-year-old wim hof is an extreme athlete from holland who is world renowned for his ability to withstand sub-zero temperatures at 17 years i was when i first encountered a thin layer a layer of ice on the water i went in and i felt connection i could get a hold of my deeper feelings after decades of immersing his body into freezing temperatures he developed his own practice called the wim hof method is about breathing techniques that makes you able to enter into the depth of your natural physiology your
mindset and you have the cold which trains the cardiovascular system to the best he claims that it can strengthen the body's immune system and help cure things like depression anxiety pain and even fight off diseases winning a tour of wim's house right now yeah man it's more like a campground this is where i drink it's not cold now but normally it's -30 degrees celsius this man is truly a superhuman i run in my shorts when it's cold you know for an hour or so no shoes and go you have how many world records and what
are they yeah it's like 26 world records getting quote records breaking them standing for in the ice for almost two hours now uh running beyond a polar circle a barefoot then once i lost the way under the ice i had to go for 50 meters but i went over the 100 meters because i missed the ice hole there i lost the fear of dying that was very very impressive he is completely breaking down barriers for what scientists thought the body could do when i asked him how he does it he explains that cold exposure works
like weightlifting the muscles get stronger the more you expose them reducing the force that your heart has to use to pump blood it's the best part you know the striptease do you own shoes yeah but they don't own me my vision is that we are now able to get 100 control over our own brain we are able to defy inflammation actually the course of disease and then we will change mental health care with natural ways we are able to out balance any hormonal or mental disorder i tell you want to get any mental disorder wayne
wants his voice to be heard in every corner of the globe which he's had enormous success so far hearing cops [Music] dozens of documentaries and books have been created about his life and theories millions of social media followers actively engage in his lifestyle and he constantly runs workshops for people to implement his wim hof methods into their daily lives if there's something i've learned over the last two hours at wim's house it's that this man is up to something very special i literally slept zero hours last night we came here i was sleeping in the
car and now i've never put more alive in my life it's been incredible to meet the legend himself and i look forward to not only practicing his message but seeing him next time in the cold mountains nice meeting you drew and remember ice is your warm and fast crap you know when you make love it's called [ __ ] in french hey when you [ __ ] you you think it's amazing what what is happening wow everything changes this becomes beautiful oh that smile becomes beautiful the twinkling in the eyes becomes everything is beautiful and
more and more that was nice that's the way you got to learn to live and love life every day because we got the brains for it we got their mind for it we got the heart for it and we never have been schooled there in but i tell you we gotta [ __ ] love life as the [ __ ] and this time the taboo is gone because hey man [ __ ] is the most beautiful thing in the world we get these beautiful little innocent beams out of it and then we sodomize it no
no no no it's beautiful and with that it is the life it's [ __ ] beautiful i'm drewbinski and if you like my travel videos please click subscribe and join me as i plan to visit every country in the world
