The Power of Breath & Temperature

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What's good Shrugged crew. This week we are coming at you with a familiar guest, Brian Mackenzie. For those of you who don't know him, Brian is the founder of CrossFit Endurance, the author of Power, Speed, Endurance, and works with some of the top athletes in performance sport, such as CrossFit, surfing and endurance athletics.

We dropped into RVCA headquarters to chat with Brian about a performance metric that is so often not talked about, breath. We dive deep into how you can use breath as a tool to control the nervous system, and bring your training to the next level by simple learning how to tap into your breathing pattern

We also get into how Brian is using things like ice bathes, sauna, and the unique combination of the two to control the body. We brought Brian on the show to chat about performance breathing, but naturally, we couldn't stop at that. We get into training philosophy, nature integration, and a bunch of topics to get your gears turning in a new way.

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0:00.0	And it's like, look, if I'm going to bury myself all day at work,
0:03.8	don't expect to go perform real well in a workout.
0:07.4	And be aware of what you're doing, and maybe just do some ice and some heat
0:11.4	so that you can down-regulate or up-regulate, and then be able to down-regulate yourself.
0:46.8	You're doing breath, heat, ice.
0:49.5	I mean, there's a cool training facility.
0:51.6	This is, looks like an MMA gym.
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:53.9	Mixed with a CrossFit gym.
0:55.2	Mm-hmm.
0:56.0	And, but you're the thing that you've been getting into is the heat, ice, and breath.
1:01.8	And there's a couple years ago you introduced me to some the Wim Hof breathing method.
1:06.6	Yep.
1:07.1	And I just heard about, like, holotropic breathing before, and I had done some stuff,
1:11.9	you know, one off before, but that method specifically stuck with me
1:16.7	because of how easy it is to use.
1:19.0	And so, yeah, I mean, that's really changed a lot.
1:23.7	Thanks for me.
1:24.2	It's how I start my morning.
1:25.8	Can you tell us more about where you've gone with breath since then?
1:29.2	Yeah.
1:29.7	It's been a couple years.
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