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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

You Should Be Breathing Through Your Nose! Journalist James Nestor Explains

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

James Nestor, author of the hugely popular book "Breath" explains his deep research. Should you be breathing through your nose? The answer is YES! Today on the Spartan Up podcast, He tells Spartan Founder & CEO Joe De Sena how breathing affects your performance. He also explains the history, the science, and some simple steps you can take to improve your breathing.

As Nestor says “If you stick with this, the benefits are profound, you will most likely gain performance, you'll be able to recover more quickly, you'll be able to work out at the same level with the lower heart rate, so you'll be able to push it even more. And they've done this with cyclists, with rowers with ultra marathoners, with so many other people.”



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Host: Joe De Sena

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0:00.0

But if you stick with this, the benefits are profound.

0:03.6

You will gain, you will most likely gain performance.

0:06.5

You'll be able to recover more quickly.

0:08.9

You'll be able to work out at the same level

0:11.4

with the lower heart rate. So you'll be able to push it even more and they've done this with cyclists with rowers with ultra marathoners with so many other people and it's there's not a lot of confusion about that it's making

0:24.7

that switch though people don't want to make the switch.

0:27.6

Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe DeSena founder and CEO of Spartan Race.

0:34.0

We are talking about overcoming obstacles.

0:38.0

The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.

0:49.0

Today on the Spartan Up Podcast, James Nester, author of the hugely popular book, Breath. He's done deep research

0:56.1

into how breathing can affect your performance. He tells Joe DeSenna about the history,

1:00.6

the science, and some simple steps you can take to improve your breathing.

1:04.9

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1:08.0

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1:24.2

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1:26.2

Joe the Center here with Spartan Up podcast. I got the dog

1:31.4

Sir Ernest Shackleton. We've got an amazing guest James Nester and he's going to teach me and this little crazy dog how to breathe

1:40.0

That's right how to breathe I mean we should all know how to breathe because without breathing we're dead.

1:45.0

So what do we have to learn about breathing?

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