Sleep Disruptors: How They Quickly Destroy Your Sleep
You can get a full night of sleep (8 hours) and still wake up drained and groggy. What matters is whether your sleep is interrupted and how often. There are many sleep disruptors that can mess with your sleep and disrupt your sleep cycle. Some of these are small and may simply move you out […]
Better Focus and Flow Start with Light, Quiet Breathing
There are times when everything just clicks. You lose track of time, you stop overthinking and you move, speak, or work almost without effort. That is where you achieve better focus and flow. You may experience flow state for a few minutes or a few hours at a time. Breathing plays a direct role […]
Measure Your Fitness with 7 Great Tests for Better Health
Most people think your fitness level is reflected in whether you have a six pack or how big your biceps are. While this certainly reflects an aspect of your fitness, such as and idea of body fat % and muscle mass, it doesn’t tell the full story. There are other components of fitness that give […]
Your BOLT Score: What it is and How to Improve It
We are all concerned with unfavorable blood pressure or cholesterol reading but people look at you blankly when asked “what is your BOLT score” . This breathing test measures how well your body uses oxygen and how well you tolerate carbon dioxide. It reflects how well you recover from stress, your fitness level, how well/quickly […]
Why Sleep Gets Worse After 50 And How to Make It Better
As you get older you’ve likely noticed your sleep getting worse but don’t know why. You might wake up feeling unrested or struggle to fall asleep for what seems like hours at night. This isn’t just a reflection of getting older. It relates to underlying issues with your health and poor habits and is why […]
Conditioning to Improve Fitness: 10 Facts You Need to Know
Getting fit requires a gradual on-ramp. You can’t expect to start pounding the pavement the day after a new year’s resolution and expect to be successful. Real conditioning takes time – time to build stamina, strength, and the ability to recover quickly. The correct approach to conditioning to improve fitness is gradual, steady, and built […]
CO₂ Tolerance: What Happens When You Improve It?
When we think about breathing we usually only think about the oxygen your body needs to survive. Most people don’t know that the amount of CO₂ you have in your blood has a significant impact on how much oxygen your body can use. CO₂ tolerance impacts your stamina, your focus, how calm you are, and […]
How Better Hormone Health is Supported by Nasal Breathing
There’s much more to breathing than moving air in and out of your lungs. It has a direct impact on how your body manages hormones like testosterone, cortisol, and melatonin and indirectly impacts others. These hormones control energy, stress, recovery, and sleep. Nasal breathing supports better hormone health. In the sections ahead, we’ll take […]
Why Your Breathing Gets Worse With Age and How to Reverse It
While we may all feel we are experts at breathing since we do it so often, we don’t realize it becomes more difficult with age. Naturally our lungs lose strength, habits change and harden, and overtime stress begins to impact the way we breathe. As our breathing gets worse with age it impacts our health. […]
The Psychology of Anchoring Calm: How to Best Handle Stress
Most guys expect things to calm down only after a storm has passed. By that time, stress has wreaked havoc on relationships, sleep, productivity and health. Calmness, doesn’t automatically happen after stress, however, you can train to send stress packing by anchoring calm and using functional breathing. Whether your body senses a threat or […]