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Today's guest is Leonardo Pelagotti, a Master Instructor for the Oxygen Advantage and founder of Inspire Academy, who recently worked as the official breath coach for the Chinese national breakdancing team at the 2024 Paris Olympics where they secured a bronze medal. Leo has coached multiple Olympic medalists and continues working with elite athletes while developing his unique 5-dimensional approach to breathing. In this conversation, we explore his Olympic coaching strategies, breathing assessments, altitude training techniques, and he demonstrates his signature "katana breathing" method.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction & Olympic Experience
0:24 Working with China's Olympic Breakdance Team
2:08 Sleep Breathing Techniques for Athletes
4:01 The 3AM Wake-Up Fix
6:03 Full-Body Muscle Contraction Technique
6:56 Were There Other Breath Coaches at Olympics?
8:47 Celebrity Athletes Using Breathing
10:03 Pre-Performance Anxiety Protocol
13:05 What's the Minimum Effective Dose?
18:13 Advanced Breathing Assessments
21:40 Breath Gadgets: What Actually Works?
26:26 Altitude Sickness & Mount Kilimanjaro Stories
32:49 CO2 in Rooms vs CO2 Training
39:18 The 5 Dimensional Breathing Framework
44:47 Why Wim Hof Practitioners Have Good CO2 Tolerance
48:57 Nose vs Mouth Breathing Differences
52:20 Guided Katana Breathing Exercise
57:00 Exercise Setup & Safety Instructions
58:39 The Breathing Practice Begins
65:04 How Do You Feel? Closing Thoughts

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