023- Relieving Stress, Improving Cognitive Function, and Increasing Performance Through Breath with Patrick McKeown
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Today we go for another breathing deep dive with returning guest Patrick McKeown! Patrick is one of of the world's leading thinkers when it comes to breathing. In this episode we discuss breathing action and cadence and how you can control your breath to boost athletic performance, mental clarity and focus, as well as influence nervous system response.
Patrick will be hosting a training event for practitioners and athletes at the MI40 Gym August 23-25. Visit https://oxygenadvantage.com/events/tampa-florida/ for more information and to register.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The President Hey, everybody, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Pekoski. Today we're going to talk about breathing. We are doing the deep dive with Patrick McKeon. He's been on the show before of the oxygen advantage. And now do not disregard breathing and its necessity in improving your performance and your life and your health. Breathing is the most reflexive movement pattern we have. |
| 0:54.7 | And this is a massive necessity if you want to improve every aspect of life. |
| 0:59.0 | And take it for me, someone who really neglected this through my entire career. |
| 1:02.7 | The benefit I've seen has been nothing short of life changing. |
| 1:06.4 | You know, I was introduced to breathing for the first time in yoga, and I started to become |
| 1:10.1 | very curious. |
| 1:10.6 | I took a breathing class. |
| 1:12.1 | And I just noticed the incredible ability to calm you down, change your ability to focus. |
| 1:16.7 | And then the opposite into that, change your ability to become more stimulated. |
| 1:19.7 | And breath seems to be the gateway to the autonomic nervous system. |
| 1:23.5 | So our ability to control the stress response, if we want to have an increased amplification of stress, let's say if we're getting ready to train, we're getting to the lothargic, instead of reaching for that pre-workout of that coffee, we just go to the breath. |
| 1:36.0 | Conversely, when we're done our workout, you know I've become the world's biggest advocate of taking five minutes after your workout to breathe, calm yourself down, bring yourself back down into a parasympathetic |
| 1:45.4 | state, elicit that response of rest and digest after a workout. |
| 1:50.4 | So Patchbro-Kion joins us today, and he's going to give us the deep dive that everything you want |
| 1:53.5 | to know about breathing. |
| 1:55.2 | There's a lot of stuff in this. |
| 1:56.5 | And he's drawing a lot of really, really important correlations between the breath and sleep, |
| 2:03.0 | between the breath and blood pressure between the breath and brain function. And the list goes on |
| 2:08.0 | and on and on. Not only does he do that, but he's going to tell you the mechanism. So for us nerdy |
| 2:12.0 | few out there like myself, this is a super exciting conversation with Patrick McKeon. Now, another thing I |
| 2:17.4 | want to throw at you guys, |
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