#283 How Breathwork Affects Our Mobility, Why "Belly Breathing" is Bullsh*t & More [w/ Dana Santas]

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe welcomes Dana Santas, aka, "Mobility Maker" to the Industrial Strength Show. Dana is a breathing, mobility, and mind-body coach to 45+ pro teams and hundreds of pro athletes in MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, PGA & WWE. She is also a best-selling author, inventor, and international presenter on ways to breathe, move and feel better for performance enhancement and healthier, happier living. Highlights from Joe's conversation with Dana include: How Dana originally got her "foot in the door" working with professional sports organizations & pro athletes; Why does Dana hate the word "flexibility"; Why breathing should be categorized as a "fundamental movement pattern"; Dana explains her "breathing bridge"; Why "belly breathing" is bullsh*t; How breathing affects shoulder, hip (and overall) mobility; Benefits of the "5-7-3" breathing format...and Much MORE!

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0:00.0	Hey guys welcome to episode number 283 of the industrial strength show
0:05.1	I am not going to take up too much time during this little intro because I do not want to
0:11.3	Take away from the amazing conversation that I had with today's guest.
0:19.7	Dana Santas, aka the Mobility Maker, we had about an hour and 12 minute conversation that I enjoyed from start to finish and I know you guys will too.
0:37.0	I'd like to think all the guests on this show are great,
0:41.0	but there are some that you just click with and it just even in life you know
0:46.8	there's there's certain people that within the first one or two minutes of talking to
0:51.0	them you know that like they're your people like this is my kind
0:56.2	of guy or this is my kind of girl. Well Dana is is my people like just perfect fit for the industrial strength show before we even started
1:06.3	talking training and breathing and mobility which is her expertise just hearing her backstory the first 15 or so minutes when she talks about
1:19.3	her backstory and how she got her foot in the door working with so many professional sports
1:26.2	teams and professional athletes and hearing how she hustled and just the tireless work ethic and hustle and over delivering and even her
1:38.8	approach once she got her foot in the door the way she approached the strength coaches in the field who were already established like I just loved everything about her backstory, her approach.
1:55.1	The lessons in the first 15 to 20 minutes
1:59.1	are worth the listen in and of itself and we didn't even really talk too much training during that time.
2:06.6	But and then when we started talking training, breathing mobility, you know, it got even better. Some of the highlights for me just to give you a little sneak
2:15.3	peek a little preview she spoke about why she hates the term flexibility and also belly breathing which I am guilty of using that term.
2:26.4	She gets into why she does not like those terms and she has some pretty good reasoning behind it,
2:32.7	logical reasoning behind her views there.
2:36.3	She talks about breathing as a movement pattern,
2:39.9	which I found super interesting
2:42.2	and agreed with once I heard her speak on the topic,
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