What did you do to prepare today?

baords dyslexic wrote: »

Show and tell and a list of items is always a good read, often surprises me what I've missed out or what clever uses people have found for things.

• lighter
• superglue
• meds- iburofen, aspin antihistamines
• four plasters
• alcohol wipe
• 2 single edged razors
• plastic handled craft type knife
• spool of thread and a needle
• s/g shot and fishing hooks

Doc Ruby wrote: »

I ordered Wim Hof's "Becoming the Iceman". Normally I'd have no truck with these wacky gurus, but his feats seem to be both reproducible and scientifically tested, as in they don't know how he does it but it does work, and works for other people too.

Hof holds eighteen world records including a world record for longest ice bath.[1] He broke his previous world record by staying for 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds immersed in ice at Guinness World Records 2008. The night before, he performed the feat on the Today Show.

Dr. Kenneth Kamler monitored the event to explain the effects of using the Tantric practice Tummo to control one's body temperature. Tummo has been practiced by Yogi monks in Tibet. Wim describes his ability to withstand extreme cold temperatures as being able to turn his own thermostat up by using his brain.

In February 2009 Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within two days.[2]

In 2007 he attempted, but failed (due to a foot injury), to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts.[3][4] Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt: "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement; my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society."[5]

In 2009 Hof completed a full marathon (42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi)), above the polar circle in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F). Dressed in nothing but shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes. The challenge was filmed by Firecrackerfilms, who make productions for BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic.[6]



Hof again broke the ice endurance record in 2010 by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 44 minutes in Tokyo, Japan.[7]

In 2011 Hof broke the ice endurance record twice, in Inzell in February and in New York in November. The Guinness World Record is now set for 1 hour and 52 minutes and 42 seconds by Hof.[8] On April 18, Hof got the test results regarding the "The influence of concentration/meditation on autonomic nervous system activity and the innate immune response" case study, demonstrating that he is able to directly influence his own Autonomic Nervous System and Immune System. Hof seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines(flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques. a different study on Hof while immersed in ice showed that Hof suppressed the cytokins (flammatory bodies) by 100 percent.[9] In September Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water. The run was performed under the supervision of Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels in assessment of prof. dr. Maria Hopman[10]

On April 19, 2012, an episode of the US television program Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, featuring Hof, was broadcast. Hof was tested against a member of the team named Austin, both sitting in a tank full of ice. Austin sat in the tank for about 20 minutes, with his surface body temperature falling to eight degrees above freezing. When he got out of the water, the other two team members used a heat camera to reveal that his body was at about forty degrees. Wim's core body temperature stayed the same for the entire twenty minutes, as did his heart rate.

I reckon I'll give it a blast anyway and see how I get on, if it at least makes my morning swims in the icy Atlantic more palatable I call that a win.

Assuming, as seems to be the case, that he's really onto something, the techniques and abilities he's mastered could give an enormous advantage in survival situations. Exposure becomes someone else's problem, extremes of heat and cold can be laughed off, the first rule of the three slips down to the bottom of the list, it changes the game completely.

I'll give ye a quick review whenever it arrives and a more thorough analysis in about ten years.

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Maudi wrote: »

ive read and seen bits about this guy the last couple of years....what is going on here??running up everest? in his shorts..incredible!

If it wasn't so well documented I'd have serious doubts myself. The medical explanation given doesn't wash, and I'll tell you why; the bottom line is energy in, energy out. If he's trekking through -20 conditions for hours on end, unless his skin has somehow become the perfect insulator he's radiating heat at a far greater rate than he can possibly replace it, that's why the autonomic responses are there in the first place.

All the medics are saying is that he's suppressed the basic symptoms of cold damage, but his blood hasn't somehow changed into antifreeze, he should still be suffering frostbite and worse.

Its simple physics.

That's not to say there isn't a medical explanation, of course there is. We just don't have it yet, there's something more going on here. Should be an interesting read.

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

Pics dude!!