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Training: Tyler Huston on Breath Control Training | improving CO2 tolerance to enhance performance, simulating high altitude with breath holds, & breath as medicine

June 26, 2024 • Cass Warbeck • Season 1 • Episode 34

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This conversation is with Tyler Huston. Tyler is a high performance coach with additional training as a first responder paramedic, addictions nurse, and respiratory specialist. He has spent years as a breathing coach working with clients and patients from all walks of life from physicians and professional athletes, to military and special forces trainers and first responders. All of these experiences have allowed him to refine his breathing coaching practices and develop the Breath Control Training Program. His Breath Control Training program consists of proven principles, exercise, and techniques to increase performance, facilitate and support recovery as well as enhance resiliency.

We discuss:

Underwater meditation through freediving
How the breath can help us become responsive (vs reactive)
Re-learning to breathe efficiently
Aspects of modern life that have changed how we breathe
The mouth is for eating and the nose is for breathing
Most people are actually overbreathing
Why you should improve your carbon dioxide threshold
Using breath as medicine for mental health
Learning “relaxation on command”
The connection between inspiration, exhalation and heart rate variability
How our everyday resting breath should feel like a flowing wave
Using a long, audible exhale to abort panic and anxiety
Simulation of high altitude oxygen training through breath holds
Performance benefits to athletes
How to enhance flow with breathing
Activating the mammalian dive response (to lower our heart rate)
Using nature to amplify the effects of breath training

Learn more about Breath Control Training at Breathcontrol.ca

Connect:

Instagram: @breath.control
Facebook: @Breath Control

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Theme music: Tyler Gaudon & audio editing and processing: Wyatt Pavlik

*Please appreciate that any information discussed is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, always seek the opinion of a physician or qualified healthcare provider.*