Oxygen Advantage

“Physical fitness is far from everything. You need spiritual, mental and emotional fitness also.”This week on the OA podcast Patrick and Daniel are joined by Anna West, founding board member of the Global Wellness Summit and VP for Six Senses Spa brand of luxury hotels where the message is ‘Integrated wellness’.Anna outlines how she became a wellness pioneer when setting up a series of successful businesses built around health in Sweden and how she used that knowledge to set up the Six Senses brand of luxury hotels with over 30 locations worldwide. She also outlines the chain’s initiatives to reduce its impact on the environment with goals to be plastic free by 2022, bottling their own water to reduce plastic waste and even hosting chicken farms and vegetable gardens on their sites where guests can collect their own ingredients to enjoy a sustainable, farm to table experience.

“If I exhale at the wrong part of the movement, I’ll jeopardise my technique and there goes my efficiency.”In this week’s episode, Patrick and Daniel are joined by Swedish CrossFit athlete Simon Mäntylä to discuss his career and the training required to be a top-level competitor. Starting in 2012, Simon had no competitive outlet for the variety of gym work he was doing at the time. Some friends in his local gym introduced him to CrossFit and after a short time found he had a knack for it and has competed ever since both in Sweden and internationally.Simon outlines his journey to his current fitness obsession, the level of training he has to go through on an average week (a minimum of 11 different training sessions!) and the kinds of work expected of a CrossFit athlete at the highest level.

“This is an amazing new planet you are landing on.”This week on the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by Finnish ice swimmer Magnus Appelberg to discuss his new book, ‘Ice-cold piece of mind’ and his incredible journey through the freezing world of ice baths and ice swimming.He outlines how he trained himself to calm the body’s natural panic state when entering freezing cold water and used it to develop his ‘Ice Lab Method’.Similarly, he explains how he uses his exercises to train the body’s ‘fight or flight’ reaction to ice cold water and how learning to control this reaction and reach a certain level of relaxation can have huge benefits for our health.

“The more I’m listening to within, the better it becomes.”This week on the OA podcast Patrick and Daniel speak to German model, health/wellness/breath coach and Oxygen Advantage Instructor, Jules Horn.Jules speaks to Patrick and Daniel about his own life story as well as his own journey with breathing and his discovery of the Oxygen Advantage and the many health and well-being benefits that they have brought to his life.Jules explains that finishing school at 16, he worked as an industrial mechanic for seven years before a friend encouraged him to try modelling. Since then he has worked his way up through the modelling world and is now living and working full-time in New York.Despite a healthy life with a vegan diet, Jules says he was initially sceptical about breathing’s benefits but upon using breath holds and air hunger exercises, he began to see major improvements in breath, sleep and gut health. He explains how since then he has continued to deepen his knowledge of breathing and share this learning as a breathing instructor.

“That’s the thing I’ve probably searched for my whole life, that ability to wind down.”In this week’s episode of the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by founder of Conscious Breathing, Anders Olsson as the “Three Breathing Nerds” delve into what started his journey into various breathing techniques and how he has used that knowledge to become a world leader on the subject.Originally looking at breathing techniques such as Buteyko as a way of calming his racing mind, Anders even attended one of Patrick’s old Buteyko workshops in Copenhagen in 2009. “I could notice almost immediately that it gave me a new tool, an ability to unlock the turbo, to slow down.”Anders explains the many trials and tribulations he faced on his journey, including having to sell his house in order to keep pursuing his Conscious Breathing dream, in this engaging and informative conversation with Patrick and Daniel.

“Recovery didn’t really start to speed up until I understood what had happened to me and before I started to change my life in a better way.”In this week’s episode of the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel speak with former professional tennis player and successful businessman Robin Söderling. The Swedish ace started playing professionally in 2001 and reached the top of his field in tennis, playing all over the world and competing in two consecutive French Open finals (2009/2010). His career reached its apex in 2010 when he was ranked world number 4 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). However, in that time he says he was so obsessed with tennis and his performance that it started to negatively affect him mentally. He explains how, his tennis career was sadly cut short in 2012 after he contracted mononucleosis, a persistent illness that prevented him from playing until his eventual retirement in 2015 at just 26. On top of that he suffered regularly from anxiety and panic attacks, starting in 2011. He tells Patrick and Daniel how he was able to use breathing to deal with his anxiety and use the lessons learned to continue to build a successful business career in tennis equipment.

The Sports Performance Specialist, Melissa Prieto, and the Meditation Guide Lucas Osorio meet to talk about why female breathing is different, based on science and their experience as Master Instructors of the Oxygen Advantage Method. Learn how you can use your breathing to mitigate premenstrual cycle symptoms.

In this conversation with Bellator professional fighter Georgi Karakhanyan and sports performance specialist Melissa Prieto you can learn the best breathing protocols for MMA fighters, how to use breathing during training camps and why breathing is so crucial during MMA fights.

Hear in this breathtaking conversation how David Smith, Nike Athlete, Speaker, and winner of a Gold Medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, how sports burnout can affect athlete's health, how to manage a crisis, and go beyond your limits even when you feel that your body can't.

In this conversation between Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor diagnosed with type-1 diabetes when he was 11 years old. Dr.Nick Heath, and Worldwide renowned breathing expert Patrick McKeown learn the science behind diabetes, how it affects your body's ability to oxygenate correctly, and how Breathwork can help reduce the symptoms and effects this has on the body.