Well I did it. Had a really deep, meditative WHM breathing session, and I spontaneously decided to do the ten-minute challenge that Wim prescribes in the fourth week of his 10-week course. The temperature was slightly higher (around 55-60 F) for the first five minutes, but then lowered it to its ~50F level for the last 5 minutes.…
I’ve spent the first few WimHof posts sharing data from inexpensive USB measuring tools while doing the WHM breathing. But I haven’t talked much about the cold exposure part of the training. In fact, for a few weeks after learning the breathing and meditation the first time (a few years ago), my wife and didn’t do the cold showers. It…
I’ve gone full-scientist now! I went ahead and purchased a CMS 50D+ pulse oximeter from Amazon, based on the fact that I found a python script online for pulling the data off of it in real-time via a USB cable, in Linux. I desperately searched for a pulse oximeter that also had temperature monitoring, since it seems…
As promised in my introductory post, I will start sharing the data I’ve collected from my experience with the Wim Hof Method (WHM). It’s been a latent fascination for years, but only now have I had the time and focus to develop a proper obsession around it. I’ve spent that last week doing a couple hours of “meditation” per day, and…
