Space Travel, Brains, and Muscle with Cody Burkhart
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
NASA engineer Cody Burkhart joins the Brute Podcast this week. A competitor at the 2012 CrossFit Games Regionals, Cody has continued influencing the fitness world by developing exercise systems for astronauts preparing to travel to space.
In this episode, Cody addresses recovery, mindset, breath work and the path to mastery, so be sure to listen for the best takeaway tips and book recommendations.
Topics:
3:25 - Working at NASA
14:20 - Oxygen and breath work
32:00 - Martial Arts
46:20 - Mentorship & Mastery
Links:
Books:
The Oxygen Advantage - McKeown
The Alchemist - Coelho
The Disappearing Spoon - Kean
Deep Work - Newport
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey, and welcome back. |
| 0:27.2 | My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | This week's guest is Cody Burkart. |
| 0:32.7 | Cody is an engineer for NASA with a laundry list of a resume. |
| 0:36.8 | He's currently working on something called the |
| 0:39.0 | ARED Advanced Resistive Exercise Device Project. And in general, he goes into much more detail |
| 0:45.8 | about this on the show, but he's building an immersive resistance training feedback system. |
| 0:52.3 | So think virtual reality meets resistance training meets |
| 0:56.8 | gaming. He's trying to as closely as possible mimic the demands of what astronauts will |
| 1:03.3 | experience in space to prepare them for all of the demands. He also holds multiple black belts in martial arts, including a third degree |
| 1:12.7 | in Taekwondo. He was a regional competitor in 2012. This is just a crazy successful guy. And he is, |
| 1:20.0 | the reason that I was so fascinating, fascinated with him is he's incredibly thoughtful. So think |
| 1:26.3 | about what it must take to have this type of job |
| 1:30.3 | at NASA and he applies that same level of thinking to training and to recovery and to mindset. |
| 1:38.9 | And so that's what I was really interested in talking to him about. We start to show out |
| 1:42.8 | talking about some of the fascinating |
| 1:44.8 | stuff he does with NASA. We talked about what he's learned from years of martial arts and how |
| 1:50.7 | that applies to all sports. We talk about breathwork strategies for increased performance. |
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