

A piece of advice: if you ever meet someone who wants to teach you how to ride a bike and says he's going to make you win the Tour de France: run away! But the truth is that, during one Corso of the MethodsWim Hof, the instructor will not teach you anything like that. Terms that, ironically enough, are rightly used in the article.

The "phenomenonWim Hof " has indeed spread on the internet with sensationalist videos: become a superman, become limitless, etc. It's like confusing learning to ride a bike and winning the Tour de France: the former is necessary to achieve the latter, but it's not the same thing. But while the Method Wim Hof Wim Hof has led to many personal feats for various reasons (personal, such as surpassing oneself but also attracting the attention of scientists and thus giving legitimacy to one's experiments), it is not part of such an approach. In other words, were they actually practicing the Method Wim Hof or an ersatz such as the one described in the article.Īdmittedly, it is not possible to totally dissociate the two.

It would therefore be interesting, if these former practitioners exist, to know how they practiced the MethodWim Hof : did they learn it by themselves on the internet or from a certified instructor? But it seems difficult not to get feedback from the dozens of problematic cases.Īnd when everyone else complains to the same coach, it gets strange. Of course, instructors probably tend to see mainly those people in whom the method has a positive impact in the long term. In spite of this, we have never heard of dozens of practitioners who have suffered such negative effects. Leonardo works directly with Wim Hof to train new instructors with the WHM Innerfire Academy. In addition, we are in regular contact with the community of instructors, who exchange information and observations on practice. Sébastien has been practicing for 3 years, has been teaching for 18 months and has trained about 150 people. Leonardo has been practicing this method for 4 years and has trained thousands of people (including doctors, health professionals, osteopaths, top athletes etc.). We are led to meet practitioners of this method and to train these people. »Īuthors of this answer to Loris Vitry, we are certified instructors of the Method Wim Hof. First of all, Loris Vitry claims to have met "dozens of former practitioners of the MethodWim Hof, have all had a burnout and now have a destroyed endocrine system", but also "dozens of people who were surprised to have become asthmatic after a few months of practicing the breathing Wim Hof method", and finally "people who have developed heart problems (palpitations), anxiety attacks, sleep apnea.
