198: Breathe, Perform & Recover
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Could "mood" be the #1 determining variable in performance and recovery from training? What impact does reduced breathing versus accelerated breathing have on your oxygen and carbon dioxide levels—and what about your nervous system?
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet strength and conditioning coach, Brian MacKenzie, who will introduce you to breath training in a whole new way.
Brian MacKenzie is a strength and conditioning coach and the creator of CrossFit Endurance, which specializes in movement with an emphasis in running, cycling, and swimming mechanics. Brian has been featured in Competitor, Runner's World, Triathlete, Men's Journal, ESPN Rise, The Economist, Outside, and in the book, The 4-Hour Body. Brian has consulted with several athletic teams, including the 2012 Western Athletic Conference Champions San Jose State Women's Swim Team. His books include: Power, Speed, Endurance and Unbreakable Runner. You can learn more about his work at www.Unscared.com
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What You’ll Learn:
- What hypoxic training is, and why it can be useful
- How "elevation masks" are being used for warm-up and recovery
- How Wim Hof's method can be used to combat lactic acid post workout
- Why we're in the "Wild West" of breathing right now
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Tomato Sauce - friend or foe?
Links & References from the Show:
Got Questions?
- Write to us podcast@yogabody.com
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been listening to the yoga talk show for more than a year, you've probably heard me rant about my messed up feet. |
| 0:06.0 | I have really high arches and I wore high arch insoles and high arch shoes for many many years my entire youth and as a result I ended up in |
| 0:15.8 | my 20s with very deformed feet. For the past five years I've been really |
| 0:20.0 | aggressively working to restructure my feet and it's been working. I went from a |
| 0:24.7 | size 10 in American sizes to a size 12, 12.5 and eventually I think I'll get up |
| 0:30.5 | to a size 13 and all of that happened through walking around barefoot |
| 0:36.1 | through doing smart yoga practices |
| 0:38.2 | and by using toe spacers. |
| 0:40.9 | These are devices that essentially spread out your toes and help you to regain |
| 0:46.0 | connective tissue length in areas where you have lost mobility. This happens in almost all |
| 0:51.0 | modern footwear. Most people think of high-heeled shoes as the really bad shoes, |
| 0:55.0 | but the reality is most running shoes, |
| 0:57.0 | almost all office shoes, formal shoes, |
| 1:00.0 | even loafers squish your toes up |
| 1:02.0 | and lead to defamation in your toes. |
| 1:05.0 | Your feet are very, very complex with dozens of bones and tissues |
| 1:10.0 | and when you walk around with your foot essentially bound up it gets deformed over time. |
| 1:15.0 | A lot of people say, well who cares it's just my foot? |
| 1:17.5 | Well I'll tell you who cares your knees care, your back cares, your alignment cares, your |
| 1:22.0 | balance cares, having squished up feet affects all of those things, |
| 1:25.6 | and a lot of people start to notice that when they start to practice yoga. |
| 1:29.2 | For me it was my balance, I still struggle with my balance, but it's improved massively by stretching out my feet, and I believe it'll get better and better as I continue to make progress. |
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