Bonus: Slaying Myths & Adapting to Nasal Breathing
This is a shortened version of Episode 50 (1.5 hours long)….I cut out the good and left the great parts of the story from George Dallam, PhD on nasal breathing for health and performance.
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#50 — The Science of Better Breathing with George Dallam, PhD
Nasal breathing is not a trick or hack to get an unnatural advantage. Nasal breathing is the designed in way to breathe properly. Not nasal breathing causes problems which can be undone by starting to nasal breathe.
Dr. Dallam says, “One simple rule: breath through nose all the time, or as much as possible.”
#49 — Training for Injury Prevention with Matthew Smith, DC CES
Strength training for endurance athletes pulls them out of their repetitive stress patterns. Building proper movement patterns provides a foundational way to bring the body back to balance. Once in balance, getting stronger, ongoing cross training, and adequate recovery creates resilience against injury.
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#48 — Breathwork for Faster Recovery — Matthew Smith, EverAthlete
Breathwork is the deliberate practice of breath to improve your state of being. Faster breathing does not result in “super oxygenation” of the blood. It just removes more CO2, which makes it harder to capture oxygen from breathing.
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#47 — Dry Needling for Fast Healing — Christine Bell, PT
I am delighted to be joined by Christine Bell, the Aussie PT. Christine
Is a physical therapist and coach for endurance athletes. She is well known for her ability to identify root causes of pain and her ability to resolve the underlying functional problems using hands on techniques and dry needling.
#46 — Forestalling Age with Fitness with Dr. Stephen Black
Be sure to listen in as Stephen explains his philosophy of proactively addressing imbalances, deficiencies, and poor movement patterns to help older athletes become healthier and stronger while having fun. We go through the process Stephen follows with his clients to provide personalized training and nutritional plans to help them get to where they want to go from wherever they are, and he reviews some basic interventions that tend to apply to most people.
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#45 — Build Strong Habits with Samuel Salzer
Sam Salzer is a Behavioral Strategist specializing in applying insights from Behavioral Science and Behavioral Economics to fuel habit formation. Join Sam as he makes the world a better place, one good habit at a time.
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#44 – Chris Schwenker, PT, Virtual Cycling’s Biggest Fan
Indoor Virtual Cycling is the evolution of our great sport. Listen to Chris Schwenker, P.T., virtual cycling’s biggest fan and publisher of Zommunique talk about how he uses and promotes virtual cycling to find fun, camaraderie, fitness and more.
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#43 – Yoga for Cyclists with Hunter Allen
Hunter was looking for a solution to undo some of that tension he had put into his body by riding so much for so long. Hunter found that yoga helped him to build muscles that were more supple…not just chiseled and ripped but also flexible and resilient
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#42 — Muscle Activation Technique for Performance and Pain, with Rhonda Mansell
Muscle Activation Technique is designed to identify and correct muscular imbalances that are responsible for chronic tightness…pain….decreased performance. MAT practitioners look for imbalances between right and left, front and back sides of the body, which would indicate an area of weakness which may be the cause of the tightness, pain, decreased performance.
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