What happens when you push your body to the edge of its limits? From the icy grip of snow training to the scorching heat of a 170-degree sauna, extreme conditions unlock a world of physical and mental transformation. How does underwater resistance build explosive power? Why does high-altitude training make you feel unstoppable back at sea level? In this post, I share the secrets, the risks, and the raw lessons I’ve learned about resilience, breathing, and finding strength in discomfort. Are you ready to embrace the extreme?

Bring in your knees, exploding up, and it's gonna be building the muscles with that resistance. So you come out of the water, imagine how you're gonna be able to jump. You're gonna be able to explode forward and be able to bring that knee up and kick. All that is retained in the muscles when you come out of the water. Really beneficial.

So you want to be taking off those layers your sweating and then, after you're done training, you're going to start getting cold, so you're going to want to put layers back on. Very critical. Also, as you're putting down those clothes, they're probably going to be getting cold.

Are you gonna be able to, you know, withstand the cold? Is it gonna snow? Check the weather. Let someone know where you're going because you need a backup plan. Take a friend. Always usually take a friend with you. If you're not taking somebody with you, then at least, at least, let people know where you're going.

And be very careful. Training out in the extreme cold, you can freeze to death, frostbite. But, it's really great for burning fat. So, the cold induces this it's on an article. I wrote it on my website. Cannot think of the details at this moment. And, it talks about the, how the cold on your body, induces faster fat burning, and then you're also heating up the body through exercise in the cold, you're inducing more fat burn.

It's very beneficial for your nervous system, for your immune system. Just everything in general it's a very great way to channel stress exactly, like putting it into something that is painful that's beneficial to you, allowing you to really release that tension and it forces you to calm down. Where if you're going to want to get out, but if you can breathe through that intense situation, you learn how to be in a chaotic environment and remain calm, and that is exceptionally valuable.

You know, have actual good footwear that you're going to be ready to train in. Maybe you go barefoot, but be careful because sometimes you can't see the terrain, right? If it's just cold outside. Awesome. Go training for it, right? When you're out in nature in the cold and you're pushing it make sure you have water always hydrate.

Let's go into the heat one. This is kind of I personally love training in the heat. There's a lot of benefits to it. There's a lot of benefits to you know intentionally taking yourself into a heated situation like a sauna So for example, if you go to a sauna and you stay in there for 20 minutes, You There are 30 minutes and you take a 15-20 minute break and then you go back in.

170 to about 212 degrees. Now there's some saunas that don't get that hot. Maybe you have a sauna that gets to like 140. It's okay. It's better than nothing. It's better than not having a sauna. And in the sauna, you can exercise, right? Some people may not even be able to last 10 minutes. Do what you can.

Feel your body. If you start getting lightheaded, dizzy, you're feeling your blood pressure, you can start feeling your heartbeat, get out, take a break, cool down, make sure that you have a way to cool down either like a cold shower or maybe water that you have that you can pour on you. But you don't want to go from a sauna to like a hundred degree day.

And, if you're training out in that, in the humidity, you're gonna be sweating a lot, you need to hydrate. If you're in the dry, you still need to be hydrating, cause you're gonna be sweating, it's still hot. And, you need to be careful. If you're going to be venturing out into nature at that temperature, it is dangerous.

Reconsider it unless you have proper equipment, proper escape plan. Maybe you parked your car at the end of the trail, you're only going like a mile or two, you came back, you know the trail. Cool, but be very careful going out into long ventures in high degree of heat if you're not used to it. And one of the benefits is it causes you to sweat more.

Taking big breaths like that can hurt. Slowing your breath and controlling your breath in the hot area is gonna allow your body to retain that calmness through your heartbeat and not get out of control. So that'll keep you longer in the heat without having that, you know, lightheaded feeling, that heart pumping feeling.

And if you can really focus on the breath. Maybe you never get there, right, because you're able to maintain that inner composure, your organs and everything are more relaxed, and if you have a way to cool down. You do so, you know, like you're not going to spend an hour in 170 degree sauna. I mean, some people do, but you don't need to do 30 minutes.

And it's a meditation practice along with getting all these benefits. On top of that, exercising in the sauna, right? Think about this when you exercise, some people overheat because their body is producing so much heat in their muscles, and they can't get that heat out. They're sweating, and they overheat.

You know, that's sometimes what I do. And then I'll do like a little bit of stretching, stretching is amazing in the sauna. You're already loose be very careful doing exercising and stretching in the sauna because it does increase your heart rate. So if you have any heart problems or you have any heart issues, it could be a problem.

And just make sure you know yourself before you're doing these things because these are extreme ways of training. We're not like talking about like normal, you know, this is like, you're trying to push it, you're trying to, you know, push your healing, you're trying to push your training, you're trying to push your endurance, your cardio, your ability to do things.

So, you know take an intro class geese in the hot work out in the heat. Work out in like 80, 90 degree room. You know, do your training in a heated 80, 90 degree room where, you know, you're doing your regular cardio training. You don't have to go like a hundred degrees. You can just turn up the thermostat in that room, put a little heater in that room and then boom, you're going hard at 80, 90 degrees.

You're going to be sweating. You're going to be pushing that VO2 max. And then you're going to be getting those same benefits. Maybe not like the growth hormones and it's not going to, you're not going to get the same benefits of sauna, but in the exercise, in the cardio aspect, you're going to be hitting those same, the same goal, and you're going to be cleansing your body.

It revitalizes you during the exercise. And, you know, in the heat, you got to be very careful. You start feeling those, the symptoms. It can lead to vomiting, and it becomes like a tailwind situation, where you're then puking, drinking water, and puking because you drink water, and then you can't drink water.

So, if you find yourself in that situation, wait. 30, 45 minutes. You're gonna be thirsty as hell and then have a sip of water. Had this happen to me twice. First time I went to the hospital. Second time I learned how to do it. Didn't go to the hospital. First time was from blowing glass. Second time was from training really hard and then blowing glass afterwards.

It was, it was, it was, It was time. It was time, yeah. My buddy he hydrated better. I sweat a lot. I was, I sweat through like two shirts. I was like ringing them out in the sink. It was, It was a lot. It was a lot. And, you gotta be careful. So, when, if that situation happens, sugar, electrolytes, chocolate milk, you know, get it in, liquid, into the system.

You'll see the person like come back to life. So, important find yourself in that situation, know how to get out. Know, have those things ready. You know, You know you're gonna push it. Maybe bring some chocolate milk. Have it next to your water bottle, put it in your backpack or something. Maybe bring a little cooler that you, you know, you got your electrolytes, your chocolate milk or something, you know.

I do plant milk. Most people will do regular milk. Dude, do what you like. Make sure it's healthy. Make sure it's sourced well. And let's go into high altitude training, which is amazing, right? So high altitude, there's less oxygen at that higher altitude, which forces your body to get used to this lower level of oxygen.

So when you first arrive, you're like, you're feeling maybe dizzy, especially if it's a really high altitude and you just went from sea level to high up and you start walking around and you're like, I'm tired. I just walked from like my car. And like, a day goes by and you're kind of feeling more normal, you're getting more used to it, and then you have more stamina when you go back to sea level.

In here, it's just, it feels thin because you're huffing for air but you're not getting oxygen. So you just, you're like, what? It feels like asthma in a sense. Like you're huffing through a straw but nothing's coming in. And you have to really regulate the breathing. A lot of these extreme trainings always come back to the breath.

Because that's kind of what freaks out when you're in these situations. Not so much the cold, unless you're really exerting yourself, but especially the heat, especially high altitude, your body's going to be freaking out. So you have to slow it down, breathe, calm down, take a few breaks and then keep going and you'll get used to it.

You're still gonna have that endurance. Breathe and then eat well, go to your, your event. You're gonna be super charged, really great, ready to train. Underwater training. So this is kind of two boats where you can do partially underwater, you can do completely submerged, and one of the benefits is whenever you make any movement underwater, you have full resistance.

When you're doing that front kick, every part, every punch has resistance. That resistance. So it's building the strength and it increases the speed. So if you're moving faster in the water, it's going to work on that fast twitch muscle with that increased resistance. You come out of the water, that resistance is gone and then you're moving like lightning.

Bring in your knees, exploding up, and it's gonna be building the muscles with that resistance. So you come out of the water, imagine how you're gonna be able to jump. You're gonna be able to explode forward and be able to bring that knee up and kick. All that is retained in the muscles when you come out of the water. Really beneficial.

Now if you go under the water, It's gonna also be working on your breath. You're gonna have to learn how to oxygenate your blood through breath work. Going under the water, learning to calm the mind so that you can allow yourself to hit that anaerobic and stay under there for a minute, two, three, four, five, depending on your training.

Then you can relax through it and you can get to the other side of that. And underwater training is like, again, you're getting that same training of partially underwater with the resistance on top of deprivation of oxygen. And it is, it's beautiful stuff. Dangerous. You can drown, right? If you get stuck somewhere, if you go too deep.

So just be careful if you're doing underwater training, if you're doing, In, you know, partial water training, be careful where you're doing it. Sharp edges. You know, if you're doing it at a pool, don't be trying to do squat jump tucks at the very edge, and then you bust your knee and your face on the edge.

Going to the pool and doing this kind of stuff. It's just like, it's so good for you. And it teaches you to breathe if you're like swimming. If you're doing this stuff under the water. Breathing, doing stuff. Breathing, doing stuff. Right? You're working out and you're learning this dynamic way to do your training and it just like skyrockets you.

It's dangerous to run crazily on sand if you've never done it before. Cause it's easy to roll an ankle, to roll a knee. So, you know, start off slow, do some very light training, get used to it. See how it is. Then, you know, some more complex movements. And then once you start building it, maybe not the first time, then you can start doing some crazy stuff.

Maybe some spinning jump kicks. If you know what you're doing, if you feel very comfortable, go for it, know yourself. And it's really important. The sand when you pivot can sometimes dig your feet in and then cause a knee to twist out of the socket. So as you're twisting, you have to be very mindful of that planning foot.

That's pretty much, I think, covers it. I mean, like you can do other kinds of extreme training. Like, I mean, I guess you can do, like, high wind training. But, you Yeah, that pretty much covers it. And the biggest thing is just knowing what you're going into, having the methods to back you up in case something goes wrong, knowing where you're going, and then being mindful as you're doing it, because you're doing something that is not normal, that is not, you know, safe.

So train to your limit, train to where you know you can go, and then heal, and then do it again. Then you're going to have a higher limit. But if you keep pushing limits in these kinds of extreme situations. That's where like, real big dangers can happen, right? That's how a slip a faint and things that you don't want happen, and it's really important to have someone there, either helping, watching, managing, or training with you, that you can watch each other in these kind of situations.

And I felt, I felt great the next day. It was like, It was intense. It was hard. It was hot. I could feel the heat. It was strenuous. But I didn't, I didn't push it in that environment because I didn't want to find myself in a situation that I couldn't get out of. So be mindful. Be safe. Push yourself, but do it safely.

But if you just move forward without understanding where we're at, we get lost and things happen. Have a safe journey. Have a beautiful time. Namaste.

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