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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Brian Mackenzie, Human Performance Specialist

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Brian Mackenzie, an expert in the development and application of custom protocols to optimize human health and performance.

His work harnesses and integrates respiratory, movement, strength and endurance-based training approaches to elicit positive results.

His protocols have been used to accelerate and raise both mental and physical performance in world-class Olympic and professional athletes, top executives, and elite military operators, as well as to improve the health for everyday people to those suffering from various chronic illnesses.

Along with innovating the endurance, strength and conditioning paradigm, he has studied altitude, heat & cold exposure and breath work.

Brian co-founded and created Power Speed Endurance (PSE), an online programming, coaching and educational platform that specializes in movement & skill development in sport.

He also co-authored the books Power Speed Endurance, NYTimes Best Seller UnBreakable Runner, and most recently UnPlugged.

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aerobic efficiency is actually the number one thing that we have for human performance.

0:10.8

Like that is the indicator of how quickly you're going to recover, how quickly, how well you can

0:16.3

tolerate stress, you know, how well you're going to get back the next day, and when we see these things start to take shape we

0:26.9

we start to learn how to play with them and so I can recover quicker through

0:30.6

breathing you know we've seen this time and time again I can

0:34.2

down regulate myself with breathing I can you know I can change my performance

0:38.6

with breathing. Okay, welcome back or welcome to if you're new to this podcast, The Finding Mastery

0:54.1

Podcast, and I'm Michael Jervay.

0:56.2

By Trade and Training, I'm a Support and Performance Psychologist, which means I spent most of my life

1:01.4

fortunate enough to stand on the shoulders of great

1:03.7

researchers and great scientists on the science of how the best in the world

1:08.1

work and then been fortunate enough to create and

1:15.0

understanding how people become their very best.

1:18.0

And that is part of this conversation,

1:21.0

this podcast, is to explore how those thinkers and doers work.

1:25.0

Like how do they organize their internal life and their external world to maximize

1:30.0

their pursuit in life and we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they use to build

1:34.8

and refine their craft.

1:37.5

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