Electrical Brain Stimulation for Optimal Performance w/ Dr. Daniel Chao — Barbell Shrugged #349
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Daniel Chao, CEO of Halo Neuroscience and creator of Halo Sport, dedicated his whole life to understanding the brain and its function. Specifically, how electrical stimulation can help the brain more rapidly improve physical performance, cognitive function, and overall happiness.
Halo Sport is the first-ever brain stimulator used to accelerate movement-based learning. In other words, it speeds up the development of skill, strength, and endurance, depending on the type of training that you pair with it.
Halo Sport works by applying non-invasive, mild electrical current to the motor cortex (part of the brain responsible for movement), allowing your brain to build stronger connections and learn movement faster. For example: You can wear Halo Sport for 20 minutes before your training session, which gives you one hour of what neuroscientists call "hyperlearning" or "hyperplasticity". Training with it accelerates gains across skill, strength, and endurance.
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Chao about how the brain is wired for movement, how to increase mastery of movements by 50%, incorporating meditation and visualization into performance that matters, how to increase fine motor skills and advanced movements through brain stimulation, how to maximize performance in CrossFit with 20 minutes of use in your warm up, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Strong family, we're back. |
| 0:02.2 | We're hanging out with Dr. Daniel Chow from Halo Neuroscience. |
| 0:07.9 | These guys have created this really cool head-bone device that does brain stimulation, |
| 0:17.1 | send it some electronic shocks into your brain, and they help you get better at fitness. |
| 0:23.3 | It's pretty cool stuff. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm not a neuroscientist. |
| 0:27.6 | I actually came into the center of view. |
| 0:30.6 | Pretty skeptical that you could shock someone's brain and getting them better at snatches |
| 0:34.4 | and clean the jerks. |
| 0:35.4 | But he did a very good job of making me think a little bit different about how our brain |
| 0:41.4 | is wired for movement and how we can speed that process up. |
| 0:45.7 | So very cool stuff. |
| 0:48.6 | And I think you're going to enjoy the show. |
| 0:51.1 | Make sure you are getting signed up for our email list November 5th. |
| 0:55.3 | We are launching a brand new series, 30 days of coaching coming out. |
| 1:00.5 | I have scoured all of the website. |
| 1:03.8 | That's over six years of articles and interviews, like thousands of podcasts and interviews, |
| 1:09.4 | hundreds of articles to bring you the best 30 days of coaching to get you stronger, faster, |
| 1:16.1 | leaner, more dialed in on your nutrition, meal prep, all the pieces that go into living |
| 1:22.2 | a healthier, stronger life. |
| 1:26.7 | You are interested in being in the 30 days of free coaching. |
| 1:30.8 | Just make sure you get signed up for our email list. |
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