With hot days comes even hotter debate: could you, should you wear shorts? Alex Bilmes weighs in Unless you’ve seen, as I’m afraid I have, more episodes of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix docummercial, The Goop Lab, than could be good for your "wellness" – so that’ll be one episode, then – you may be unaware of the work of professional cold-water plunger Wim Hof.
Hof, who is Dutch (clearly), is the inventor of the Wim Hof Method, a series of deep-breathing exercises that, combined with his relentless promotion of the apparent health benefits of ice bathing, have brought him fame, of the online variety.
More pertinently to this column, Hof is a Man in Shorts. I have trawled the outer reaches of Google Images and I can find no photo in which he