Growth through states and archetypes

An amazing start to Saturday morning starting the day off with Wim Hof Coach Chun from Hyper Activ. Hope the session, brought some zing to your weekend.

Here’s a recap..

• Breath work and cold immersion - Facilitated by Chun centred around the Wim Hof Method, here’s a recap of the key takeaways .

• Archetypes we focussed on:

  • Explorer - The archetype of the explorer is to learn new movements and find out the limits of one’s mobility through curious inquiry.

  • Warrior - The archetype of the warrior is mental and physical strength to push through pain by reframing. Facing adversity with in stride, with a smile and a “yes, I can do this…I love this!” mentality.

• Beyond the functional movements we incorporated these primal movements:

  • Bear crawl - Builds strong wrists, shoulders, is low impact while it engages the whole body and challenges the respiratory system.

  • Frog squat - Open up your hips and loosen your hamstrings while build strength endurance in your quads.

  • Hindu push up - Builds strong shoulders, core while opening the hips. This is a dynamic and efficient compound that is killer for for muscle building and body flexibility.

• Breath work - Techniques were centred around the Oxygen Advantage methods to boost Carbon Dioxide tolerance. CO2 is the stimulus for us to breathe. Boosting this, will help improve stress resilience, increase circulation and reduce muscle fatigue. What we did:

  • Rescue breathing

    • Objective - Warm up to prepare the body for a tolerable feeling of breathlessness.

    • How - Watch video here

  • Preparation of altitude training

    • Objective - To prepare the body and mind for using breath holds as a stressor.

    • How - Normal breath in and out through the nose, pinch the nose then walk 15 paces with breath held, then release and breathe normally for 40 seconds (3-5 reps)

    • How - Watch video here

  • Shark fit

    • Objective - To create strong air hunger and strong air hunger causes a disturbance to the blood’s acid-base balance. As the breath is held, oxygen continues to be extracted by the cells and excess carbon dioxide cannot leave the blood through the lungs. Regular practice of breath-holding exposes the body to increased acidosis, which causes adaptations to it, reducing the acidity of the blood during intense exercise and delaying the onset of fatigue.

    • How - Normal breath in and out through the nose, pinch the nose then walk with breath held, when a medium hunger for air, increase the pace to a fast walk or jog, when a strong hunger for air comes, run/sprint, then release walking a few paces while breathing 6 shallow breaths, then resume normal breathing for 40 seconds (3-5 reps).

    • I’ve done a variation of this on the Assault bike. Watch here.

  • Wim Hof Breathing followed by Cold Immersion with Chun!

Look out for our next event at Core Collective!