Breathing Techniques for Optimal Health & Performance
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Discover how your breath can change your life! In this episode of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang chat with Erwan Le Corre, a movement and breathing expert, to explore the power of proper breathing techniques for health, fitness, and mental clarity.
Learn how nasal breathing can boost your workouts, diaphragmatic control can strengthen your body, and why free divers avoid hyperventilation. Hear insights into managing stress, improving lung health, and how small changes in your environment can encourage natural movement.
If you’re serious about building a healthier body and mind, this conversation will inspire you. Tune in now and start breathing better today!
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Chapters:
0:00 Breathing for Health and Performance
2:06 How Kids Inspire Natural and Effective Movement
6:30 The Impact of Modern Living on Natural Mobility
9:12 How Movement Habits Affect Your Posture and Health
13:50 Simple Ways to Encourage More Movement at Home
20:33 Breathing Techniques for Swimming and Peak Performance
26:40 Using Breath Control to Reduce Stress and Conserve Energy
32:33 How Breathing Affects Stress and Athletic Performance
38:10 Why Elite Free Divers Avoid Hyperventilation
44:38 Understanding Shallow Blackouts and Water Safety
50:13 Extreme Free Diving and Lessons About Breath Control
58:24 The Truth About Hyperventilation and Relaxation
1:02:39 Breathwork for Calmness and Mental Clarity
1:09:38 The Art of Relaxation and Finding Inner Peace
1:16:01 Mindfulness, Kindness, and Personal Growth
1:22:14 Using Blood Work and Nasal Breathing for Health Optimization
1:29:48 Breathing Patterns and Their Effects on Your Body
1:40:07 The Benefits of Breathing Less for Better Health
1:45:35 Strengthening Breathing Muscles for Improved Performance
1:53:55 Breath Control Techniques for Better Oxygen Use
2:07:11 Nasal Breathing vs CO2 Masks for Fitness
2:11:08 How Breathwork Combines Physical and Mental Focus
2:16:31 Methylene Blue and Recovery for Athletes
2:22:02 Letting Go of Fear and Focusing on What You Control
2:28:29 Taking Responsibility for a Happier Life
2:30:34 Appreciating Small Moments and Building Gratitude
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about the respiration, the biomechanics. |
| 0:03.1 | Respiratory muscles must be very strong, and the rib cage must be very flexible and as large as possible. |
| 0:10.7 | It means that your lungs have volume. |
| 0:14.2 | A good way to strengthen your diaphragm is to put it under pressure. |
| 0:18.3 | And what happens when you inhale is that you feel the push outwardly, and you're going to try to push, push, push, push, push, keep pushing. And you want to feel the effort because you are pushing the limits of your diaphragm. So it's like if you were to do a biceps curls, you can do it very slowly because you can control that muscle. You want to control the diaphragm the same way. And the breath of work method, there are three pillars. |
| 0:39.4 | There's the breathing, breathing mastery, breathling, but most importantly and also meditation. |
| 0:44.4 | I have a long background of athletic, physical activity. |
| 0:48.5 | And I love the physicality to be performing at that high level of physicality. |
| 0:53.3 | I need my mind to be in the right place. Where'd you pick up on some of this stuff? Where'd some of this start for you? Thank you for showing all this stuff to us in the park today. All the different movement stuff and the breathing. And where'd you pick up on some of this stuff? Where'd some of this start for you? Along the way. It's been a long way. I'm in my 50s. |
| 1:13.3 | But let's say it starts with, if we talk about natural movement, because all that was natural |
| 1:20.3 | movement, it starts where everybody, because we all go through the same developmental sequence of movement skills that are specific to our species. |
| 1:33.3 | So if you're a member of a human species, and I'm going to move like a dolphin or an eagle or a guinea pig, |
| 1:40.3 | you're going to move like little human animals do regardless of being in Europe, United States, |
| 1:46.3 | you know, Africa, Asia, it doesn't matter. All kids move the same. So they start, you know, |
| 1:53.1 | the place in their back, supine position, they flip to prone position. they start to use their arms. |
| 2:01.3 | They do army crawl, baby crawl. |
| 2:04.6 | They start to elevate the position. |
| 2:06.1 | They go on their knees, knee hand crawl, foot hand crawl, move up and down the stairs. |
| 2:13.1 | Okay. |
| 2:14.5 | That behavior is not taught. |
| 2:17.0 | It's not shown by their parents. |
| 2:19.2 | It's instinctive universally. |
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