Don't Try to Win Today (2:00 Drill #19)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We're diving back into your questions this episode, covering topics from Wim Hof to why we don't program high-level gymnastics movements at CFNE to my advice for gyms as we continue to navigate these tough economic conditions.
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| 0:00.0 | When I first heard about it, I tried it on my own. |
| 0:02.1 | I have asthma, so I can't hold my breath for very long. |
| 0:05.0 | When I actually went and got tested, they're like, blow out, |
| 0:08.6 | there's a computer program where you blow candles |
| 0:11.0 | on a computer through a device. |
| 0:12.5 | It's basically like a breathalyzer. |
| 0:14.8 | And I have the lung capacity, this is kind of crazy, |
| 0:16.8 | but I have the lung capacity of like a 65-year-old, |
| 0:19.3 | as a 40-year-old. |
| 0:21.7 | So when I first did Wim Hof, the first thing to kind of do |
| 0:25.3 | is like hold your breath for as long as you can. |
| 0:28.0 | So I tried it. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm in the gym. |
| 0:30.6 | It's I'm sitting by myself and I have my watch on. |
| 0:35.0 | I take a breath. |
| 0:36.8 | I hold it. |
| 0:37.8 | I hit the stopwatch. |
| 0:39.4 | And I'm like, OK, close my eyes and I hold my breath |
| 0:41.7 | for as long as I can. |
| 0:43.1 | And when it gets really hard, I'm like, OK, hold on, hold on, |
| 0:47.3 | hold on. |
| 0:47.8 | When it gets excruciating, so the point where I feel like my head |
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