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How To Hold Your Breath For Four Minutes, Training Mask Myths, Performance Breathing & More With Brian Mackenzie

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Iron Man Triathlon - Power Breathing

There's a professional Iron Man triathlete. You could probably find the video on YouTube somewhere named Andy Potts. He was talking about how when all the other athletes are warming up in the water, he'll be off to the side in his wetsuit, doing this deep, deep power breathing. And then he'll end with like a full on exhale and a full on inhale and go through like three cycles of that just to warm up for a race. The irony here is that you've figured out my wife before she would do, she would start a race. She would do this breathing to calm herself down so that she just didn't like she wasn't being overt

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