How I Do The Wim Hof Method: Cold Exposure
Note: This is part three of a three-part series where an average, middle-aged dude — me — tells you my step-by-step method for how I do each of the three aspects of the Wim Hof Method. Part one was about the breathing technique and part two was focused on meditation. This post is about cold exposure.
I’ve got four layers on, a scarf around my neck, two hoodies covering up my baseball cap and I’m still freakin’ cold. Such is the life of a night-time bike ride in mid-January on the central island of Japan.
“Thank you, cold,” I force myself to say.
The chill in my bones is nothing that some heavy riding encouraged by some up-tempo music like my boys the Disco Biscuits provide on the regular can’t solve. So I put on a Biscuits playlist on my earbuds and off I go…
15 minutes later and once again, I’m reminded: Yes, this is why I like winter. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and of all four seasons, none come close to winter for making us stronger.
And that’s why, despite it logically seeming like a bad idea, I continue to take my cold showers on these cold days. Below, I’ll explain exactly how I do it.
