Getting Good at Nasal Breathing

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Getting good at nasal breathing is useful. A gear system of the type that briam mackenzie and colleagues have developed, i think, is a good way to conceptualize this. If you're doing long duration work and do it all nasal breathing, if you have deviated septum, it's probably ecause you don't nasal breathe enough. The other aspect is whether or not you're using your ribs, the intercostal muscles, or these muscles.

This episode I discuss endurance: our ability to perform effort over extended amounts of time. I describe the four kinds of endurance: muscular endurance, long duration (single-set) efforts, and the two kinds of high intensity interval training (HIIT). I discuss efficiency of effort and maximizing quality of effort, and a hydration formula. I review how our heart literally gets stronger when we oxygenate muscles properly. I also discuss motivation for long bouts of work and the visual physiological basis of the "extra gear" we all can leverage for effort. Finally, I review how accelerating as we fatigue can allow us to access untapped energetic resources.

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