What's up folks? Welcome back to the Whoop podcast where we sit down with top athletes,

researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at

their peak. And what you can do to unlock your own best performance, I'm your host,

Will Amit, founder and CEO of Whooop, and we are on a mission to

unlock human performance. Okay, this is a topic that is close to my heart. On this episode,

we're talking about something we all do about 26,000 times a day. It's a little bit of a brain

teaser. What do we do 26,000 times a day? Think, think, think.

We breathe. Okay, Kristen Holmes, our VP of Performance, sits down with Brian McKenzie to talk about

how breathing can reduce stress, strengthen your body's immune response, help you sleep better, and improve your

performance. Brian is a human performance and endurance expert, the founder and CEO of Shift,

and the president and co-founder of the Health and Human Performance Foundation. He's worked with

top executives, the U.S. military, and CrossFit champions to help them

understand how breath can help optimize health and performance.

Brian and Kristen discussed why it's important to engage your diaphragm.

What breathing does for you physiologically and psychologically,

nasal breathing versus mouth breathing, how breathing protocols can help you regulate your system,

and how being aware of your breathing without controlling it is the ultimate goal of your breath

practice. I have to say, I got into meditation years ago

and just learning how to breathe will completely change your life.

So this is a very important podcast.

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