Hey, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Ben Pocolsky. You guys know that I've become an absolute fanatic about the benefits of breathing.

If you haven't heard me talk about this, I suggest you listen up, giving your full attention,

because breathing may be the very thing that changes your life, it changes your performance,

it changes your mindset, your ability to focus.

The list of benefits is long.

Now, some people tend to oversimplify breathing. It is, in its essence, very, very simple. But the opportunities that lie within a breath practice are vast and innumerable.

And certain people are focusing on one type of breath.

And that's great.

But I want you all to acknowledge that there's many different sequences and cadences and formats and approaches to breathing that can all elicit different benefits and responses in your body.

Today's podcast is the breathing deep dive with breathing guru Brian McKenzie.

This guy is an absolute whiz when it comes to understanding not only breathing, but high

level human performance.

How your breathing is impacting your ability to access high level cognitive function,

high level physical performance, whether you're trying to do the highest level aerobic exercise,

like triathons and marathons and super marathons and ultra marathons,

or you're trying to do things that are super highly power oriented like powerlifting

and strong men and bodybuilding. Whatever it is,

breathing is the next frontier of performance optimization. Mark my words, you will be doing

this stuff over the next two and three and four years. If you're actually wanting to optimize performance, everyone will be doing

this. Now, there's three aspects of breathing, right? There's the biomechanics. It's how we breathe.

It's moving with our diaphragm, breathing through our nose, deeply into our diaphragm horizontally.

Brian talks about that. Then there's going to be the biochemistry looking at the

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