Ep 121 // Are you Breathing Correctly? Oxygen Advantage with Patrick McKeown

The Movement, Strength & Play Podcast - A podcast by School of Calisthenics - Wednesdays

This week on the podcast we have the privilege of Patrick McKeown author of the 'hottest' book on the market for understand breathing and breath work - The Oxygen Advantage. We've been big fans of his work ever since getting more interesting in breath work and the importance of breathing mechanics. Since reading his book and knocking his 5k personal best down by nearly a minute to 19.16, by using some of the breathing techniques, Jacko has been excited about getting Patrick on the podcast to be able to sharing what he has learned about the breath, how we breath and it's huge impact on our overall health, from our sleep, stress management and more - not just our fitness levels. Learn why switching to nasal breathing is an absolute must in Patricks view after all of his research, simple exercises and breathing drills you can do even whilst listening to the podcast. He even explains why nasal breathing during the Corona outbreak is so important as a protect mechanisms over mouth breathing.All of this and much more on today's School of calisthenics Podcast. All of the links, articles, books and references that Patrick made can be found here - https://schoolofcalisthenics.com/2020/04/01/podcast-episode-121-oxygen-advantage