Breathing and The Oxygen Advantage with Patrick McKeown | EP#127

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Can a different way of breathing make you a better triathlete? International best-selling author Patrick McKeown, creator of the revolutionary Oxygen Advantage technique tells us about how breathing can improve your performance in both triathlon and general health. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Nose breathing and taking smaller breaths -Benefits for triathletes: improved VO2max, running eonomy, oxygen delivery, delayed lactic acid onset, CO2-tolerance, injury prevention, and legal EPO -Health benefits: improved sleep, concentration, and reduced stress and anxiety -Assess your breathing with the simple BOLT-test -How to implement the Oxygen Advantage techniques in your everyday life and in triathlon training SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts127/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Precision Hydration- One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! LINKS AND RESOURCES: *Oxygen Advantage website *The Science of Oxygen Advantage *Oxygen Advantage free Facebook group *2 hour instruction webinar with Patrick McKeown *Simulating Altitude Training video *Measure your BOLT score video RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is@SciTriat.

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0:00.0	We need to assess functional breathing in an athlete.
0:02.9	How well are they breathing?
0:04.5	How well is their everyday breathing?
0:06.1	Because how you breathe during sports is influenced and determined primarily by how you breathe in your everyday breathing.
0:13.0	And a lot of athletes have poor breathing patterns.
0:16.3	And this holds an athlete back.
0:20.1	The Triathlon Show, 127.
0:22.6	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Triathlon.com.
0:44.7	I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Patrick McKeown, who is an international best-selling offer of the book The Oxygen Advantage, and he's the
0:56.6	instructor of the technique or set of techniques that forms the oxygen advantage as well. Basically,
1:04.7	what it boils down to is breathing through your nose and taking smaller breaths rather than a big breaths through your mouth.
1:14.3	And this can improve both health and performance in a variety of ways from delayed lactic acid and
1:22.3	fatigue, improved VO2 max, increased lung capacity and respiratory muscle strength,
1:29.9	reduction of risk of injury and all sorts of other things that goes into both performance
1:36.8	and as I said, health, like even concentration, anxiety, stress management.
1:42.5	So this is a really fascinating topic.
1:45.0	In the middle of the interview, it gets maybe a bit technical,
1:49.0	but we go into a practical step-by-step,
1:53.0	how to apply this towards the end.
1:55.0	So definitely stick around through that discussion as well
1:59.0	to hear all of the interview to learn what to do and how to get started with this.
2:05.7	I found it a really, really fascinating topic.
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