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Six-Pillar Series – Breath Optimization #335

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The Effects of Breathing on Performance

The first few times you do this, you're going to feel a lot of energy. Every time you do that, you are triggering a release of adrenaline. That's like one of the quickest ways to arouse your sympathetic nervous system. And so I think what's happening on these people who are actually doing certain types of performance activities, say push ups while they're holding their breath is they are feeling this huge surge of adrenaline which mutes out all those signs that normally would say stop it.

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