232: One Breath – Freediving & Beyond
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Breathing has always been an integral part of yoga practices, but for many years, it was mostly forgotten or taught as an aside to asana practice. Just in the past few years, breathwork has come back into the mainstream bigger than ever before—and it's extreme. From Holotropic breathwork to The Wim Hof Method to free divers and hypoxic training, it seems like breathing has never been more popular, and yet more misunderstood with sometimes disastrous results.
On this week's show, you'll meet author and free diving hobbyist, Adam Skolnick who chronicled the life of one of America's most famous freedivers who tragically died in 2013.
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What You´ll Learn:
- Why people are dying in free diving
- How Adam became a travel writer to support his passion and interests
- How Adam learned to dive to 30 meters in just 4 days
- Why social media sometimes presents a "false reality" of what's truly possible
- 6 competitive disciplines: static apnea, dynamic apnea (mono-fin swimming for distance without breathing), dynamic no fin, constant weight (with fin), constant weight (no fin), free immersion
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Adam Skolnick has written for the New York Times, Playboy, Outside, ESPN.com, BBC.com, Salon.com, Men's Health, Wired, and Travel + Leisure, among others. He has visited 45 countries and authored or coauthored over 30 Lonely Planet guidebooks. ONE BREATH, his first narrative nonfiction book available now on amazon.com.
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| 0:00.0 | If you go to a cross fit box and ask people what they had for lunch, I promise you half the room will have drank a huge way protein shake. |
| 0:09.0 | If you go to a marathon, a foot race a marathon and ask everybody what they ate for dinner the night before. |
| 0:15.0 | 80% of them are still probably carbloting. |
| 0:18.0 | They ate a whole bunch of pasta, a whole bunch of rice to get their glycogen stores up. If you go to ask specific people |
| 0:26.7 | doing specific movement practices what they eat you'll find the answers are |
| 0:29.4 | pretty consistent. If you go to a meditation center you'll find people are |
| 0:32.4 | avoiding garlic and onion and chilies |
| 0:34.0 | because it kind of irritates your nervous system. |
| 0:36.6 | And if you go and ask your average yoga student what they're eating, it tends to be |
| 0:39.3 | bread, rice, milk, coffee, sugar, really pretty blah foods. |
| 0:45.8 | Nothing too exciting or interesting. |
| 0:47.6 | When I made my first trip to India in 2006, |
| 0:50.8 | I saw that firsthand and I experienced it firsthand eating in |
| 0:54.3 | ashrams and eating in little yoga centers in the south of India and I realized |
| 0:57.8 | hey this is an absolute disaster for flexibility for connective tissue health and so so when I got back, I started working with formulators |
| 1:05.0 | and I'd been doing raw food plant-based nutrition for a long time. |
| 1:08.0 | And I started supplementing my diet |
| 1:11.0 | and I created a nutritional supplement formula called |
| 1:13.4 | yoga body stretch. None of these ingredients I invented none of these things came |
| 1:17.4 | out of the sky in fact they all have loads and loads of peer-reviewed published |
| 1:21.7 | research in terms of their efficacy, but what they do is essentially, it's a formula specifically targeted for joint and connective tissue health. |
| 1:31.0 | As a yoga student, you are deliberately stressing your |
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