Super HumansThe extremes of Wim Hof, Jill Yoneda, Amanda Dennison, and

Wim Hof• Wim Hof has trained for over 20 years and counting for surviving

the extreme cold• To train Wim Hof would will his body to influence his metabolism• His feats include: Staying immersed in ice for 1 h, 13 min, 48 s.

Wearing swimming trunks and goggles, he swam 60 m under ice. He also runs half marathons, barefoot, in bitter temperatures north of the arctic circle. He also climbed 7400 m on mount Everest in shorts and sandals!

Jill Yoneda• Jill Yoneda is part of the national free diving team• To train Jill Yoneda uses mammalian dive reflex (adaption's that

conserve available oxygen to protect the body's vital organs)• Her feats include holding her breath for 5 min 17 s, swimming

underwater for 150 m, swimming underwater while holding her breath for 48 m.

Amanda Dennison

•Amanda Dennison is a firewalker •She has been a firewalker from 2005-now•To withstand walking across fire she

thinks of a happy memory and no matter what don’t stop walking

What I Think...

•I think that lion tamers are super human because who is brave enough to aggravate a lion

•And they whip them which makes them want to attack

•And they lure them into the cages. Who is brave/stupid enough to do this?

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