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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

491 - Brian MacKenzie (Human Performance Specialist, Sorta)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Brian MacKenzie and I had a good chat about how "working out" should be more like play, how psychological issues manifest in our physiology, and how rejection can hit the body like a car wreck. Brian is the Founder & CEO of Shift. He is also the President and Co-Founder of The Health and Human Performance Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching how breath and innate tools can optimize and help health and human performance. Brian has also co-authored the book Power Speed Endurance, The New York Times Best Seller UnBreakable Runner, and UnPlugged, which assesses the integration of emergent technology and human performance.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; "Move with Me" by Nena Cherry; "Smoke Alarm," by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Tchango.

0:02.3

Water Manu

0:27.7

Ladies and Gentlemen

0:29.7

Welcome to another edition of tangentially speaking. I'm Chris your host with the most.

0:36.3

Not sure what I have the most of but I have the most something. I have the most microphone

0:42.2

at the moment. This is an episode with a guy named Brian McKenzie. Let me be honest with

0:47.3

you. Sometimes I book a conversation with someone and I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy

0:56.7

it. I mean that's life right? We're never sure how anything's going to work out. But this

1:05.2

guy Brian McKenzie there's been a series of like movement people recently on the podcast.

1:10.7

You may have noticed and I'm not like you know a top athlete. You may have noticed that

1:17.1

also. But there was a guy who recommended Rafe Kelly for example and then I don't know if

1:24.2

Andrew I think is it him? I don't know if Andrew recommended Rafe or how it happened but there's

1:29.2

this sort of snowballing effect of you know oh you had a good conversation with him. You should

1:33.7

talk to this guy and then this guy with anyway somehow I got in touch with this guy Brian McKenzie

1:41.1

and I looked him up online and you know he's a serious guy. He's he's worked with you know all kinds

1:49.9

of I don't know Navy SEALs and he's written a couple of books. He's coauthored some books about

1:57.0

movement. He's into breath work. He's worked with Olympic athletes professional athletes you know

2:07.4

the military. He's and he's very interested in sort of natural movement. How can I say this?

2:17.0

Like sort of athletics but as a as a reflection of the way our bodies were meant to move. I'm sure

2:25.8

there's a much more succinct way of saying that. Anyway so I booked this thing thinking yeah we'll

2:31.9

see how it goes. I don't know. Dude seems a little slick you know his website's super slick and

2:38.9

you know human optimization is a phrase that sort of makes me roll my eyes. So I was

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