BECOMING SUPERHUMAN WITH ICE MAN - Wim Hof

Oh everyone who is watching this with this group in particular here are all of our discomfort ah seeking discomfort this is not what I do about it don't do this at home directly like copying don't do it these guys are experienced [Music] he's able to withstand extreme cold this guy run to the top of Everest in his underwear he says it's easy experts are baffled how is he able to survive wim HOF or as some of you may know him - the Iceman he might well be one of the most unique humans currently alive the past 20 years he's been breaking countless endurance records mostly around his ability to resist extreme cold temperatures from spending nearly two hours submerged in ice water without his core body temperature changing to climbing past the Death Zone of Mount Everest barefoot wearing nothing but shorts while running a full marathon in the desert of Namibia without drinking water he's surpassed what anyone thought the human body was capable of over and over and for a while that's what he was known for as the Iceman the freak of nature who breaks impossible records but after a series of independent scientific studies he's proven that with his specific training we're all capable of pushing our minds and bodies way past what was thought possible thank you and he calls it the wim HOF method how is it possible for a human being to be exposed in an ice bath for one hour and 44 minutes wim HOF is changing scientists understanding of how the body works he recently shook the scientific community after injecting himself and a few of his students with the form of an infectious ecoli bacteria we saw less fever he had less flu-like symptoms and he also had lessened concentrations of inflammatory proteins in his blood together they fought off the disease the breathing and meditation both of which are major pillars but his method leaving the world confused and us like many others fascinated while wim may seem superhuman and a total anomaly to the human race there are now millions of people around the world practicing his method his records and his life raises the question what if there is a world of untapped potential and all of us just waiting to be released an ability to tap into deeper parts of our brain to regain control and will power over our own bodies and do things we never thought we were capable of before and so after meeting women in LA a few months ago and hearing about all his claims we were fully intrigued by the possibility of unlocking our full potential we felt like we had no the choice but to fly out to his training camp in Poland and experience it in person our goal was to understand whether wim is simply a madman with superhuman abilities whether he has actually made a groundbreaking discovery about what the human mind is capable of we brought a group of friends and filmmakers to help capture the process and even though we arrived in Poland with over three years of experience and seeking discomfort none of us could have expected the wild journey for answers we were about to embark on and it begins as a starter you don't have to wear a t-shirt you can wear a jacket amazing we haven't done like the breathing I don't run less that sure let's tackle mate this is good midnight last night it progressively kept getting colder Wow Zack how are you you're refusing to kind of show any emotion about everything they said that everything that is happening there is patiently waiting just because someone's message is good doesn't mean that the messenger themself is like anything special said you have to fully believe in order for it to work that's me I'm a simple man yet I'm going to change the world we are made to believe that a whole lot of things a lot of crap is normal like war and disease and mental disorders tomato sort of playful like yeah that's life life it can be a tough [ __ ] and all that [ __ ] I don't believe that within four days I will bring you guys into a state of mind more than ever you have experienced people making you able to go in very stressful environments like a freezing cold mountain or even over-insured for hours in four days it's not like a training its awakening and in this awakening we show the world that we have so much more power already here right now and it needs just a couple of steps to disc cover welcome to climbing the mountain what kind of gear are we gonna have yeah just a couple of spikes under your shoes and as shorts a little short yeah yeah Shores enough to cover at all you know how long is it gonna take to go up you don't know oh it depends on the mountain a mountain in sunshine is it very nice you can stay for hours there's nothing going on but you will not do that when there is a wind chill of 100 kilometers it's like a whip on you don't stay picnicking while a whip is going on you just want to go as fast as possible and maybe it's not even possible the mountain is a mirror of our capacities coming up and we got so much more within us and the mountain will just bring it out but before that is going to happen we're gonna pray lude it we're there a nice splash you better be ready are you ready do you feel ready okay that's exactly what I need a natural expression let's do this you want to ring the bells right off the bat we got a feeling that wim had no intention of treating us like a regular group normally he begins by teaching his breathing and meditation techniques that allow you to cope with the extreme cold but his most recent study has indicated that this may be possible to be achieved all through the power of the mind so instead of training us he thought it'd be an interesting idea for the first day to start off with a real-life trial of that study by taking a straight to cliff jumping into ice water he doesn't usually do this where we go in without any breath work he doesn't specifically we've been told if you're in water without training that temperature for three miniature body shuts down yeah I mean all he said was to put on free control so I'm assuming we're about to get really cold I'm down for the breathing and the training I'm not down for the jumping with nothing and no training and no breathing nothing just full-on noobs all right we are about to go for our first adventure with wim to the waterfall we're jumping from six meters up we have never we have not done any training fights no no cross right here that is in the long time exposure into cold that is the one where we jump from down into the ice water zero degrees and floating so it's cold in a normal we're about to discover the definition of freezing your nuts off what do we do dude I've never jumped in cold water why are we doing a cliff jump six meters up freezing shovel yeah [Music] [Music] haha good tape a bloody good tape yes exist comfort power powers with us as we were celebrating completing his initiation without us realizing it wim was carefully watching us and our reactions were about to completely determine how our next three days would pan out I've never liked pushing my body like that before like every single voice inside your mind is just like screaming at you like are you insane you cannot think about nothing then survive and when you are in the cold you don't think about you're indulging into your emotion and you brought a broken heart and all those things you just got to survive thus you learned to control your emotion today when we went to jump off the cliff you said that the anxiety and the fear that we're facing is natural yes what would you say your relationship with anxiety and fear is today it was great day because I saw not only me having fun day at the wharf but you're holding this ballgame is going to be good he's coming for days so how I'm dealing with this anxiety there is no anxiety there's only power and that power is going to be ours and it's gonna be our mind and my challenge these four days is to bring you to the food for understanding by feeling of your of the power of your own mind and send that into the world then it is there that we not point to heaven's door inside and that you are the master of your own brain you are the owner of your own brain got that your own mind your own happiness strength and help is your our first day in Poland came to an end without training we went to bed hopeful that the next day would finally start preparing for the intense climb up the mountain in three days but when we woke up we were told at whim and other plans normally I don't you I go gradually into step by step but not with this group they are all about discomfort seeking discomfort is exactly what I needed so we jumped straight into the depth which normally I do absolutely not it's bringing heart attacks to people because the vascular system is is not right but in this case I could specifically with this group and want to try out the last study I've shown that it is all in the morning we are built to be happy strong and healthy we got all the tools but they are not awakened but who is going to wake them up that's us this week we're gonna do things I've never done because I've been a guinea pig on my life and I changed the books now I'm going to do that with yes feeling here's the plan there is no plan we do whatever whim decides we were supposed to have do something up here but apparently we're gonna go downstairs to figure out what his plan is he tells you to jump in the water you jump in the water if he tells you to sleep you sleep if he wants to slap you in the face you get slapped in the face that's what a master does women told me to do that dude [Laughter] I woke up at half past three and since then I've been thinking oh [ __ ] this is gonna go a complete different way we don't want a another vice documentary who wants something new in its ice pack for you guys ten minutes all of you set you mind the latest study showed we are able to tap into the deepest part of the break just at will we will show and without you how to handle the brain how to handle the mind set your mind your mind will make your body able and survive from a ten minutes ice bath as a treat we come back up here and we have a great festival in the sauna and then you get food okay Maura we gotta do breathing we make it a short cut because you guys all from going out of comfort into the discomfort there is the comfort I will show you what is comfort we were supposed to learn the breathing techniques to cope with the cold today but he decided to skip that step and just throw it straight into call and see if we can just put the power of our mind adapt to it what does that mean man I was freezing when I had my toes in the snow I'm I supposed to sit in the free ice bath it's a very long time in ice water involves breathing a big part of it we're surpassing that and just trying to go straight through the mindset I've never died like a school I talk about the breath you know it's a nice the whole point of us being here is to learn when I feel like we're just being thrown into [ __ ] and being like the power of your mind just shut up and do it when your house is on fire you'll run fast you don't need to think you go because adrenaline is there so it's like the house is on fire it's not on fire but you are follow me in this and it's gonna happen begin to doubt and it is something else is gonna happen so is there something physically I do or something mentally delenn need to do - like Center my mind just follow the breath yeah the only thing is don't interfere what the body is able to do with what the body is able to do adaptation meditation is dynamic it's real it's a deeper part of the brain having a sufficient blood flow now they studied mindfulness of research and they saw that within 10 minutes what we do people even after years of training in mindfulness are not able to get into you know put the signs out of there and get back to your sense you are the one in command over yourself got that three minutes is hypothermia right yeah now we're doing ten minutes without training okay and the last year we were in the water for probably 30 second and I never in my wildest dreams thought that I could stay in cold water for three more than like two minutes this is testing every assumption I've ever made about myself in the cold I hate the cold and in a way there's like a method to his madness you know at first I was I was mad at him I was like why aren't you training us and then the other part of me after a while thinking about it was like [ __ ] just happens in life and you have no control over and there's no training you just have to like react the house is on fire what are you gonna do survival actually surviving is something that we never do you never have to survive you know you have to survive your when you were living at hyperthermia like if you lose control over your body you will literally just collapse I'm already freezing go down we had to pack on your thighs long exhalation and let the body do what the body is able to do George interfere let it go you got it yeah are you ready yeah it's just talking to Thomas let's have a say yes here's what I've come to terms with without training without any of this the only thing we can rely on is our own mind if we can accomplish this something that either genuinely think is impossible right now then we should be able to push our minds beyond anything else in regular life [Music] whoa nice you can do this come on [Music] get them on your thighs touch feel the palms of your hands they are war this is the way you learn how to deal with utmost trust let it go you are thinking [Music] Oh No [Applause] [Music] oh my god just how do you feel hey guys your 10 minutes like no preparation just the power of demands dealing with stress severe stress I have never ever seen Thomas like in that much the skin that much pain that much discomfort like the vein on on his on the side of his neck was just popping I've never seen like that suffering on a human space yeah I'm so proud of Thomas you just feel so alive like all your primal instincts just kick in to save you I could do this again and they're just a nice man not born for this weather but [ __ ] it survive anything I can't feel my hands I can't feel my feet is it a myth that if you stay a minute and a half to two minutes and freezing water like that you just get hypothermia there are people in cooter collapse because they are vascular system is not right okay you're not in good condition but I prepared you and you walking well now you feel good amazing just ten minutes no preparation just the power of the mind [Music] thanks around the corner opening up so your extremities the blood from your extermination from your arms your legs are now mixing in with your warmth or blood like I did not shiver for a second in the cold water but here you're like my entire body is just going [Applause] in the water I was picturing like headlines being like youtuber loses his hands in Polish I don't know I was like so scared for a lot of it like I in legitimately thought I was gonna get out and no longer have control of my hands when I get out I couldn't move them I was looking at my hands and they couldn't I couldn't fold him in they were stuck here I've never experienced that before are you proud of yourself though yeah definitely I legitimately was convinced I would get out there's several moments when I was like alright I'm standing up now and what made you stay is probably you guys like looking around being like if you guys can do it I can do it too what do you think of Thomas he sucked that's it that's that Thomas was great he had an issue but look how he got with this focus through his trauma through his issue and you've got an issue you think looking at this hey man you follow Thomas during this wildly unpredictable day wim put us into ice water five times longer than what he ever usually does with fully trained groups and by the end of it we were promised that the following morning wim was finally going to introduce us to his famous breathing technique to help us cope with a cold too early for this incessant coughing [Music] [Music] [Music] finally the breathing is gonna be leading the team for about 45 minutes and okay are you relaxed just move your body a little shake it you know you get the [ __ ] outta me I mean I wake up I'm gonna do my best and everybody is gonna possibly do three minutes without air in the lungs so think and feel as if you fill up your belly through your mouth or nose doesn't matter Julian then the chest and then into your heart and then you let it go barely Chuck high letting go barely just hard letting go barely Julian like the sea waves on the shore and letting go letting go is a round number one if you feel light-headed loosen the body tingling it's all alright breathe into it intensify whatever you feel intensify and three boolean as we're finally starting to learn the method I think you might be a good time to explain what it consists of there's three main components breathing meditation and gradual cold exposure and its main objective is to awaken the deeper parts of the brain that wim claims we've lost control over first Wims meditation technique differs from traditional practices by preparing the mind and body to stay strong and calm during situations of stress when the fight or flight response is activated he then gradually takes people through cold exposure countless independent studies have shown that cold exposure boosts the immune system and decreases inflammation in the body which is also why pro athletes use it all the time for recovery but one believes the cold can do so much more and lastly his breathing technique is designed to take deep inhales and gentler exhales in order to take in more air than we're letting out this allows your body to function at a higher level than normal and can get you to hold your breath for three to four minutes this process can in some cases cause a wide variety of physical and emotional responses [Music] [Music] all right [Music] breathe and relax it's deep enough and three full yet letting go - for the end letting go 148 letting go at some point I'll just just get me out of my body I feel amazing I've never been able to like hold my breath longer than like 45 seconds so holding it for three minutes was psyche trippy it felt like ten seconds like you'd lose track of time like I'm holding my breath and then he's like good that's three minutes as we thought we were finally going through the full wim HOF method he decided to fully flip the script again and skip the rest of the training and go straight to the mountain shut the [ __ ] up and let's climb this mountain it's about do it leave the mountain alone with your pathetic thoughts over done and now we go up the mountain and do it buddy already knows what it is going up I guess it is so cold outside and it's snowing and we're about to climb this mountain hopefully we'll make it to the top [Music] so when decided to completely reverse the the whole set up for us so he started with showing us the power of our minds and then training us but even with all of that he still decided to skip day three of training which is usually more more breathwork and like kind of ice baths and take us straight up the mountain they've never done this with a group before ever and all the group's they've had here for training is the first time he's done it like this it's like we're the guinea pigs for it I mean the only thing we can rely on is ourselves at this point like and each other right like it's just like the verge of being reckless I mean it is pretty much reckless and I think here in the college is it but I guess we'll see [Music] already here let it snow let it snow let it snow that and let us go talk so that's what we do yeah there you go hey pep talk is over man we are just going to do it so here it is Oh guys know what to do yeah what is it one step another one another one and then we reach a talk this is it [ __ ] now or never Thomas's [ __ ] is the fig I got home did nobody's even skiing that's Hough not figured it's cold it's hot it's hot how does this make any [ __ ] sense somebody tell me please no it doesn't none of it does we take today where it's the worst wetter conditions possible no [ __ ] did my mom is gonna watch this and she's [ __ ] kill me [ __ ] are we doing it's - [ __ ] 3 or 4 Celsius climbing a freaking mountain in Poland right we could be in Hawaii right now you know Kobe in Hawaii [ __ ] it [Music] [Music] can we cross anyone right now coming up or down they think we're freaking but it's just like eight people shirtless walking up this reason to thing I mean maybe we should take that advice and do a stop okay okay just focus on like one step at a time that's the only thing that works for me right now I think about the ocean two hours ahead of us makes me very sad [Music] for through the way they're starting to feel it on my back mostly but just trying to focus on the breathing and just follow winds footsteps keeps you distracted just thinking of your breath this is like slow pain whereas ice-bath was instant shock and so if you keep keep your calm I think you can you can make it up [Music] good job Bridget good man element major in an ages it's a power of the moment coming to you and then suddenly the bear buddy is able to do so much more [Music] nice ball with sharp just like a plunger boys this is getting colder and colder how because we're climbing up a mountain as well we're getting more tired a little bit more altitude would you feel that that's a whip straight to the chest ah ah this fresh snow it's not helping the situation though it's the fingers feel like blocks [Music] so [ __ ] win we just got to the point when the wind is really starting to catch up and there's snow hitting it hard so come look at these trees this is so crazy let's go max oh my god [Music] we're about 1900 meters in elevation it's just almost like it's over it's 5800 feet and at this point that's no it's also possible Thomas is gone just wants to [ __ ] run down there and I second that let's go a few hundred meters from the mountain summit we got stuck the snow levels were getting up to our waist and making the call to continue the track to the top became extremely unsafe amidst the intensifying weather conditions together with the windchill he this more than minus 20 and it is impossible to to go after the snow it's gonna be yeah we bloody did it oh yeah we bloody did it work continuing past this point would have put us in real danger but in our eyes and in Wims eyes we did it [Music] it took us a silent climb down of reflection and a day of warming back up to fully understand the purpose we began to realize is that Wims objective this entire week hadn't been to teach us his method but instead to show us that even without it the human mind is capable of so much more than we ever thought possible that we were capable of so much more than we thought possible and that no matter what challenge were going through in our lives we should never lose hope and underestimate our ability to shine and find the strength within us to succeed we spent the morning after the climb during a group reflection with wim and he decided to end our trip where it all began I wanted to were complete yeah make it full circle and so now I want to entice you to ballistic basically he wants us to take these torches light them up and walk back to that waterfall that you guys everybody jumped off the first day normally I go and do not exceed no longer than two minutes in ice water immersion you guys did five times you guys jumped directly from seven meters down even gainers I saw hey what was going on here because you have three years of working together or even more always going into discomfort that means you have gone out of the normal way of thinking and that made you for me perfect to be my guinea pigs for new research pioneering because we gotta revolutionize something in this world and show that we are made of much more than we think and for that we have to dive into the telephone yeah that you got fear right now cuz this is normal this is nature this is for the guys who venture who pioneer who go past their fear and their controlled way of thinking they go past and show new ways new directions and that was the aim of these last four days you guys did bloody great to unlock your potential we have given ourselves fully the last four days to show new directions past fear and past fear there is a lot more coming to us you are the new generation you are to youth you got to change this world now only luck your own power of your own mind because it's so beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 42min 56sec (2576 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 18 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/afightingnaturalist]

Thanks for the share man

[u/Nikolaosrokos]

I already watched it, it’s a great video especially the new concept Wim uses

[u/fajank0]

lmao dyel nigga kek

[u/[deleted]]

Great video but I can't watch him swimming under the ice like that. Just freaks me out like extreme heights.

[u/[deleted]]

I saw it yesterday. great documentary