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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield.

And as you know, if you've been a podcast listener for a little while or read the articles

at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, you know that one of the things that I really

focus on with myself and with some of the athletes that I work with is breath control,

whether that be something like box breathing, meaning like a four count in, a four count

hold, four count out followed by a four count hold, whether it be something like the use

of a power lung to resist your breathing or one of these training masks that you wear

to resist your breathing or even like underwater hypoxic sets where you're swimming underwater

back and forth while holding your breath to do things like increase production of growth

hormone or DHA or kind of get your heart rate up without necessarily putting an excessive

strain on your muscles.

Well, in today's podcast, we are pun intended going to take the deep deep dive into breath

work because I have on the call with me the author of a book that I've just recently

finished reading that blew my freaking mind when it comes to what the human body is capable

of as far as things like breath control and breath holding and also what we can learn

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