Category: Stories

So today there will be the small story of my life, a girl likewise small in stature (157 cm). But even though the box is small, bombs are kept within! (laughter)

Already being in my mother’s belly, my life was in danger, I was not supposed to be born, but one day a newborn bird, just a chick, fell on my mother’s balcony and my mother made a wish, if she cares for the little bird and nurtures it, then I will be born.

Mother more than anything in the world wanted a girl, but the doctors all said that it would be a boy until the very last moment.

And then I was born.

My name is Andre Belibi Eloumou, I’m mindset coach and personal trainer.

I discovered the ice close to a year ago. After having took my first swim at 40F/4C in dam in the Swiss Alps. Now I can stay over an hour at 32F/0C. Ice bath/cold water/Cold immersion is an actual must.

Since i started it, it gives me great and faster recovery to my extreme workout. I wish I knew about it a bit earlier while I was running 2,800 miles/4500 kilometers from New York to Los Angeles In 4 months and a week from the 1st November 2019 to 7th of March 2020.

The first time I heard the words “Wim Hof,” it was from my brother, Alex, who praised him to the skies several years ago. Alex is a genetic nutrition expert and a fan of pushing limits. Any time he signs me up for an activity (mountain biking, river rafting) and tells me it’s no big deal, I know my life is in danger. He showed me a 2012 Vice documentary called The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman about this Dutch extreme athlete, who created the method after a series of impressive feats including swimming under ice and running a half marathon above the Arctic Circle, barefoot and in shorts. “The cold,” Wim said, “brings us back to our inner nature.”