Anyone get the new book? It is called "The Way of the ICEMAN"
Got it, read it. It is a good book, short, understandable.
Written by Wim Hof and Koen de Jong.
Lots of forewords, nothing new with DD, lots of success stories.
It gives an intellectual base of knowledge and it is up to oneself, to take this into daily practice, to experience for oneself. Practice consists of 3 things:1. breathing exercise,2. immersion to cold (daily showers, hands and/or feet to ice water occasionally, maybe ice bath when experienced) 3. commitment. Fairly simple...
Another highly recommended reading: The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown. Explains Dr.Buteyko's method very good and "The way of the Iceman" takes reference on Buteyko quite frequently, and in my opinion the breathing exercises both recommend, are not that far away.
When is the best time for the cold shower/bath according to Wim Hof?
I do not remember, if there was a suggestion in the book, but the recommendation, getting used to cold showering just when one showers anyway. For some it may be twice a day, for another maybe once a week. Thinking for myself, it would be a good challenge and habit to develop, just doing it after climbing out of bed.
My own little growing experience:
The last two weeks it was a bit colder here in Germany (gone the days, when there was winter continuosly, freezing days and nights for weeks)
I did my A+A snatches outside bare chested, same with rowing, and had a frosty run with vibrams, shorts and thin (StrongFirst)-shirt (the only thing that prevented me puling it of, was a little remainder of..I would call it shame?). Afterwards cold cold/warm showering. It feels not as grazy as it may look to thick clothed winter people.
I am doing cold showering for years and I am a fan of sauna (warm-cold-warm-cold...). Key with that, is to just breathing calmly, as there is a natural reflex, to suck air, quite like doing a hardstyle set of swings or snatches in later sets. I am training breath control after exertion on and of for almost 2 years (Pavel's breath counting suggestion in Simple and Sinister). It is just a pity, that it is starting to get warmer here again, but I am tinkering something out to practice cold immersion whole year round, as the shower in summer is not that cold.
In a nutshell I find this stuff surprise, surprise just cool. Feels right.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, an expert, just subjective.