Cold Exposure
Hello my wonderful friends and followers! I wanted to write this to give a little insight into The Wim Hof Method and Me and show you some of the things we are doing.
As I explained in my It’s A Fine Line blog, I started doing The Wim Hof Method to work on getting back to being happy, healthy and strong. It works on three main pillars: Breathwork, Cold Exposure and MindSet.
I started with cold showers, nothing too mad, just taking a normal shower then flicking the temp all the way off for the last 10 secs. Progressing over the weeks until I was doing 5-6 minute ones. Starting with a cold shower rather than a warm one and loving the feeling it gave me.
It was a mix of feelings really. Physically it took away my pain, reduced inflammation, but mentally was the most surprising. It made me feel elated, accomplished, like I’d taken on a major force and beaten it in...
Between Pride & A Fall
It has been a long, long time since I last posted here. I wanted to let you know why…
Back in 2020 when we all became aware of the pandemic, I thought the toilet paper hoarding, empty shelves and the confusing instructions from the UK government were hilarious. First world problems.
Also, and this is important. I felt very lucky to be here in Bulgaria, surrounded by land. Not confined to an apartment or city house and where all the shops were operating as normal. Not one person to be found hugging toilet paper like their life depended on it.
When the vaccine started rolling out I was also delighted to find out that I didn’t need to wait for my age bracket to be called in. I could just turn up and get jabbed at the local hospital and on 23rd February 2021 that’s exactly what I did.
I was so smug! Dan felt like he’d been hit by...
The Wim Hof Method and Me
I discovered the Wim Hof Method a few years back. Jody Hatton suggested him to me, he thought I might find him interesting. So me being me, I had YouTube playing on my tablet while I was working on my laptop… I am the Queen of bad multi-tasking.
Needless to say half hearted breathing, while focusing on work, just doesn’t cut it and I didn’t really grasp the importance of Wim’s message.
I decided it wasn’t for me!
Forward Wind to 2021
February 23rd 2021 to be precise.
I stood in the queue to get the first of two COVID vaccinations. I was so happy that living in Bulgaria meant that I didn’t have to wait for my age group to be called to qualify. Just stand in a queue and voila!
That smugness was short-lived as a few days later, while mixing concrete for our new breathwork platform (my life is anything but sedentary), I felt that something was wrong. My leg...
