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In our latest audio, Oxygen Advantage® founder and CEO Patrick McKeown leads you through guided breathing and relaxation to help prepare you for that all important test or examination. Millions of us face standardized testing at a variety of times throughout our lives. Whether in school, college, or upskilling at work, the prospect of facing hours of questions designed to test our skill levels can be very daunting. Going into examinations in a stressed state can make concentration very difficult and can have a negative effect on the final grade. Of course, going into exams tired and unfocused will also cause you to perform at a level below your best.When the stress of a test or exam gets too much for us, we enter the body’s stressed ‘fight or flight’ response and lose our ability to function effectively. When we are too relaxed however, our responses are slower and we can lose focus and concentration; essential for successful exam results. This 30-minute audio is designed to help ease those concerns, to help calm your body and mind and focus you for the task ahead. Simply play the audio in the weeks leading up to and just before going into the examination. Let Patrick’s voice guide your breathing and set you up for a great test performance and an excellent grade. Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now.📱 Android Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/ 🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en 📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=en

“I think the pros outweigh the cons of where we’re going with technology in healthcare.” On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick McKeown is joined by world renowned author, biohacker, nutritionist and fitness expert, Ben Greenfield. This particular episode was recorded on the fly, with Patrick on the road and Ben on a hike, so we apologize if the audio quality is not perfect.Ben has built a name for himself as one of the top fitness coaches, triathletes and wellness advocates in the world. He speaks about technology and health with great enthusiasm. He cites the easy availability of modern devices, data collection and AI models as a means for early diagnoses of disease and illness and the increasing affordability of this technology for everyone.Ben also explains his own personal breathing journey, the different breathing traditions he has explored and the ways in which he has brought breathing into his daily life in a wide variety of ways, from getting energized in the morning to preparing the body for sleep at night.This episode of the podcast has an incredibly entertaining and knowledgeable guest in Ben Greenfield. It is a fascinating look at the future of high tech diagnostic medicine, the growth of personal wellness and healthcare and breathing’s place within it, with lessons from a man at the forefront of personal improvement. Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now.📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store:https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/  🎙 Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en 📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=en

In our latest audio, Oxygen Advantage® founder and CEO Patrick McKeown leads you through guided breathing and relaxation to help with insomnia.Insomnia and sleep difficulties are faced by millions of us every night. When we don’t sleep well at night, we lose our ability to function at our best the following day. This 20-minute video is designed to help ease those difficulties and relax your body and mind. Simply play the audio as you are going to bed and let Patrick’s calming voice guide your breathing and send you off to a deep sleep. Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now.📱 Android Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/  🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en  📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=en

In our latest audio, Oxygen Advantage® founder and CEO Patrick McKeown leads you through guided breathing and relaxation to help musicians prepare for a performance.Music performers like instrumentalists and singers have a very difficult profession with many pressures that those of us outside their world may not appreciate. Preforming in front of people can be incredibly stressful and knowing a performance is coming up can heighten that anxiety. This 20-minute clip is designed to help ease and stress or pre-show jitters and relax your body and mind, so you can tackle your performance at your best. Simply find a quiet space and listen. Let Patrick’s calming voice guide your breathing and help center you before your performance. Get the Oxygen Advantage®.Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now.📱 Android Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/  🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en 📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=en

“[My] brain has healed itself and I feel… it’s because of the retraining of the breath.” On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick McKeown is joined by former rugby player, OA Master Instructor and someone with first-hand experience of concussion and brain injury, David ‘Jacko’ Jackson.David is a former rugby union player who spent his professional career playing for his hometown club of Nottingham RFC. It was the consequences of the injuries he experienced during his career that started David on the path to breathwork.David’s first significant concussion occurred at the age of 16, playing rugby during an England schoolboys trial. He would be hospitalized from is injury but at the time, was not removed from the pitch.He would then have what he describes as “a series of head injuries and concussions” throughout the next 15-years of his rugby career. That career ended when one light tackle in training changed his life. The impact, though innocuous when compared to the type of hits rugby players are used to, caused him to go into seizures on the pitch and would lead to a bleed on his brain.David explains how he discovered Patrick’s work around 2017 while looking into the effects of concussion and learned how breathing can be used to increase blood flow to the brain. He has not looked back since and is now an Oxygen Advantage® Master Instructor who works with former rugby players and other people dealing with traumatic brain injuries.This is a very interesting and enlightening conversation about concussion and traumatic brain injury. It is well worth a look for anyone interested in seeing how breathing can be used to improve brain health and increase quality of life.Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now.📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/  🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en 📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=en

“A clear mind is what we want for optimal performance.”On the latest edition of Season 3 of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick McKeown is joined by Formula 1 performance coach Michael Italiano.Michael, an already established performance coach, entered the sport of F1 after a call from old friend and fellow Australian, Daniel Ricardo, who Michael has known since he was 12. After five years with Daniel, Michael is now well established in F1 and is coaching AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda this season.Michael explains the huge amount of considerations that Formula 1 drivers have to deal with every time they sit behind the wheel of these impressive and powerful machines.Factors like heat and G-forces can have a huge effect on drivers’ physical condition but also, when people start getting fatigued, cognitive function begins to decline. Mental strength and focus is essential for F1 drivers.They have to be aware of race positioning, attacking or defending a position, the right way to enter each corner, fuel efficiency, tire wear and much more. All of this happens at an average speed of over 200 miles per hour and a top speed of over 230 mph. If you follow Formula 1 racing, have watched the ‘Drive to Survive’ Netflix series or just want to know how tough things can be, both physically and mentally, at the apex of world motor sport, then this is the podcast for you.Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now. 📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store:https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/ 🎙 Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvantage 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvantage/?hl=en   📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/ 💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/oxygenadvantage?lang=enChapters:00:00 Intro – Challenges an F1 Driver Faces04:37 The Effects of Heat on the Driver10:20 Breathing and F1 Driving13:55 Concentration, Precision and Conditioning19:31 Visual Spatial Awareness, Concentration and Flow States27:04 Mouth Breathing and Correct Tongue Resting Posture29:46 Most Important Traits of a Young Driver32:30 Conclusion

“Block out negativity… take control and then work towards the goal.” On this week’s edition of The Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick is joined by high performance coach, businessman and author, Ben Coomber.Both as a High Performance Coach and in his own life, Ben specializes in breaking down and examining the parts of our lives that may be stopping us form achieving high performance. He says it’s starts with making changes that will get us the “big wins”, i.e. things we can change that will quickly bring improvements, like a good night’s sleep.The people Ben coaches, score different parts of their life out of 10, like diet, stress, sleep and even relationships. By looking at the lowest scores first, Ben says that’s how you can identify your “big wins”. The things we can change or adapt to improve our overall health will differ from person to person. Job, stress, diet, relationships and more can all be negatives for our health. By taking a look at how we spend the time each day is how we can make positive changes and use our time better, and according to Ben, sleep is one of the best ways we can make quick improvements to our performance.Many of the tools Ben uses to improve his clients’ health and performance can all be found in his book How to Live an Awesome Life. Ben’s other books How to Be an Awesome Personal Trainer and Sports Nutrition in Practice are also available for purchase.This is a very entertaining and informative conversation about finding ways to use our time better and avoiding the many unhealthy traps of modern life, like poor sleep, phone addiction and stress. Discover more about Ben on his website bencoomber.com or search Ben Coomber on your preferred social platform.Plan your exercises at home. Try the free Oxygen Advantage®Breathing App, available now. 📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store:https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/  🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvan...📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvan...  📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/OxygenAdvantage... 

“Everything is vying for our attention… and we need to take the power back.”On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage podcast, Patrick is joined by TV host, radio personality, comedian, author, and mindfulness teacher, Dermot Whelan. A well-known celebrity in his native Ireland where he has been a permanent fixture of television and radio for well over a decade, Dermot experienced many struggles with his mental health over the years. Even when his career was flying high, Dermot was still experiencing mental health issues that were starting to eat away at him. It all came to a head about 15 years ago when he experienced a panic attack on the way to the Cat Laughs comedy festival in Kilkenny where he was performing. He was driving and had to pull his car to the side of the road. He would eventually arrive at the festival in the back of an ambulance.He says it wasn’t until he discovered mindfulness that he was able to start making really positive changes in his life. A neighbour introduced him to mindfulness and he hasn’t looked back since.From his status as a national celebrity Dermot has used his position to spread the word about mindfulness, even teaching live courses and writing his book ‘Mind Full’. The book features easily accessible information about mental health and mindfulness while mixing in comedic elements. Comedy is something that comes naturally to Dermot and is something he was able to extend into his Mind Full tour which is currently ongoing.This is an entertaining, practical and accessible podcast for anyone interested in mindfulness, breathing and improving mental health.Visit www.dermotwhelan.com for more information about Dermot and tour dates.Plan your exercises at home. Try the free Oxygen Advantage® Breathing App, available now. 📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store:https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950 🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/ 🎙Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvan...📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvan...  📱 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/OxygenAdvantage...

“The sun will always rise again tomorrow and you’re not on your own.”In this episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast Patrick is joined by Caroline McKenna, a mental health advocate, teacher, and host of the ‘A County Down Under’ podcast which she started during her time living in Australia. Originally only visiting Australia for ‘a few months’, Caroline ended up staying seven years. It was during her time in Australia that Caroline saw the high standards of mental health awareness and positive steps taken to highlight and address it. Things like readily available counselling services and mind healthy activities like mindfulness coaching.During the pandemic, Caroline started to galvanize her thoughts on what she wanted to change in her life. She had spent almost three years in lockdown, away from home like many other non-Australian nationals, so she made a 15-minute video explaining the difficulties that many ex-pats face being unable to return home. The video was a huge hit and was the beginning of what became the ‘A County Down Under’ podcast. A very popular show focused on mental health and wellbeing which has appeared on top download lists in Ireland, the UK and Australia ever since. At a similar time, Caroline also started Sunrise Socials as a means for ex-pats to meet up and watch the sunrise and look at the future with positivity. The first Sunrise Social took place in Sydney, there are now 35 communities worldwide.Caroline speaks in honest terms about how repeated suicides impacted her community growing up and how she struggled to understand why someone would take their own life and how she herself decided to quit drinking alcohol due to its negative effects.An advocate of ice baths, it was also during lockdown that Caroline was introduced to breathwork thanks to Ronan O’Brien of Breathwave Ireland and has not looked back. She now agrees with Patrick and wants to see breathwork training taught in schools.This is a very entertaining and enlightening podcast on the importance of finding time for ourselves and time with our family and getting away from the distractions of work and the phone.Plan your exercises at home. Try the free Oxygen Advantage Breathing App, available now. 📱 Android Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxygen.advantage📱 Apple store:https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxygen-advantage/id1589260950🔗 CONNECT WITH Patrick McKeown (Oxygen Advantage®)💻 Website - https://oxygenadvantage.com/ 🎙 Podcast - https://oxygenadvantage.com/podcasts/ 📹 YouTube Channel -https://www.youtube.com/c/OxygenAdvan...📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/oxygenadvan...  📱Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theoxygenadvantage/💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxygenadvantage🐥 Twitter - https://twitter.com/OxygenAdvantage...Chapters:00:00 Introduction01:53 Ireland and Mental Health04:55 Caroline’s Story09:34 Giving Up Alcohol 15:11 Discovering Breathing Exercises19:48 Making Breathing More Accessible 22:40 Mental Health and the Older Generation24:45 Teaching Breathing in Schools30:04 Giving Attention to Ourselves31:14 The Distraction of the Phone38:51 Religion and Breathing39:53 Why Are More Men Doing Breathwork?43:02 Breathing for Concentration and Focus45:10 Teaching Students & Mental Strength49:55 The Future of Breathing53:56 Conclusion

“Flow starts when you say yes to the fight.” This week on the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick McKeown and Daniel Pållson are joined by Rian Doris and Dr. Michael Mannino of Flow Research Collective, a team of doctors, scientists, athletes and entrepreneurs working to get the best out of human performance by researching the state of ‘flow’. Flow is an optimal state of consciousness where you feel at your best and are able to perform at or near your optimum potential. It has been described as a state of rapt attention and total absorption. It is a state where your sense of time changes, your inner negative voice quiets and your self-consciousness decreases. By reaching flow states we can perform at our best, whether in an athletic pursuit, during a presentation or performing creatively. Rian and Michael explain the complexities of flow, how our brains and bodies change when in flow and how we can get the best from it. This is a very detailed and interesting podcast on what flow is, how it works and how we can teach ourselves breathing to better access flow states. If you are interested in reaching peak flow, then this is the podcast episode for you. Visit www.flowresearchcollective.com for more details on the research into flow states.Visit https://oxygenadvantage.com/ for more detail on functional breathing for health and performance.

“It was pretty much the best and worst day of my life.”On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick is very happy to welcome breathwork colleague, OA Instructor, surfer and star of popular Australian reality show Bondi Beach, Mr. Dean ‘Deano’ Gladstone.Admitting he shares a similar story to Patrick’s, Dean explains that he struggled with asthma from a young age, even being hospitalized at the age of nine. The only times he felt relief from symptoms was when he went swimming regularly. Any extended length of time away from the pool and Dean’s symptoms would return.Dean had stopped swimming prior to being hospitalized and was sent back swimming by his doctors. Despite regular continuing issues with his asthma, Dean stayed extremely fit and reached an incredibly high level in swimming, reaching an Australian national ranking of 2 in the 400m swimming event at the age of 18.But even at an admirable fitness level, Dean still struggled with his breathing. He was regularly ill and would often go on a course of antibiotics prior to a swimming event as he knew the high levels of stress and competition would negatively affect is health.Becoming a plumber after school, Dean found that dust would regularly affect his breathing and coupled with his exercise, he suffered chronic fatigue. Around the same time, he discovered yoga which was his first foray into “regulation of the breath”.His life took a massive turn when he was violently assaulted in an unprovoked attack in his 20’s where he received spinal damage and had his four front teeth knocked out. It is a day he describes as “pretty much the best and worst day of my life.”The attack destroyed his health. It led to anxiety and post-traumatic distress, he started suffering skin irritation and was scratching himself to the point of bleeding at night. He needed to make a change so he and started looking at holistic alternatives. Since then Dean has not looked back and has gone on to become a yoga instructor, Buteyko instructor and Oxygen Advantage® instructor.He now works with people from all walks of life from children needing to improve their asthma to high level athletes looking for that 1% improvement. Thanks to Dean, this is a very interesting podcast with an enlightening life story that you should enjoy. More about Dean and his upcoming courses can be found on DeanoGladstone.com.More about Patrick and OA can be found at OxygenAdvantage.com.

“Chew some gum, stand up straight and shut your mouth.”On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage podcast, OA founder Patrick McKeown welcomes renowned orthodontists Dr. John and Dr. Mike Mew.Dr. John Mew is the originator of orthotropics, a type of oral posture training designed to prevent poor craniofacial development in children. A lifelong pursuit, Dr. Mew has always been intrigued by the development of the face. After seeing that many young people develop retracted jaws which can negatively affect their appearance as well as contribute to issues such as sleep apnea, he began to develop his theories.John is joined on the podcast by his son, Dr. Mike Mew, a fellow orthodontist who has continued his father’s work to improve the craniofacial development of the next generation from his clinic in Purley, London.Both men talk to Patrick about the reasoning behind their work as well as the benefits of keeping the mouth closed both for improved functional breathing, crooked teeth and improved craniofacial development.Find out more about the Mew’s work at the John Mew Orthotropics website and Orthodontichealth.co.uk.For more information on OA, please visit our website; www.oxygenadvantage.com.Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

“I was silently fighting this chronic panic disorder from the age of 13.”On this week’s edition of the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast Patrick is joined, by musician, author, mindfulness therapist and mental health advocate, Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin.A former Westmeath Gaelic footballer and Leinster Rugby player, Niall is a well-known celebrity in his native Ireland where he rose to fame as front man for rock band The Blizzards and as a solo performer.In more recent years, Niall has grown in prominence thanks to his work with mental health awareness and his part in founding mental health advocacy charity A Lust for Life where he currently serves as Creative Director.Growing up in Ireland in the 90s, Niall would sometimes run afoul of the Christian Brothers teaching him in school and suffered beatings at their hands. Niall moved to Israel with his father, a UN representative, at 13 and suffered PTSD after experiencing the conflict going on there. It reached a point where he was experiencing 2-3 panic attacks per day.Niall still captained his school football team and would go on to play U21 Gaelic football for his county and professional rugby for Leinster before embarking on his music career. In fact, exercising was the only time that Niall felt he could “breathe normally”. Everything came to a head when he suffered a massive panic attack prior to an episode of Ireland’s The Voice where he was working as judge.Since then, Niall has done “everything and anything” he can to communicate what he went through and help others to deal with similar problems. Find out more about Niall’s Mindfulness work at www.niallbreslin.com.For more information on OA, please visit our website; www.oxygenadvantage.com. Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

“Does your body recover quickly and get back to ‘normal baseline’, or does it stay there?”The latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage podcast is taken from a recent OA Members Masterclass (05 Jan 2023). Oxygen Advantage founder Patrick McKeown speaks to Dr. Jay T. Wiles, a clinical health psychologist, working as Health Behavior Coordinator for the WJB Dorn VA Medical Center and the Greenville VA Clinic in South Carolina, USA. He is also the co-founder of Hanu Health, a health technology company that sees stress as “an opportunity – a chance to learn and build resilience”. Dr. Wiles has specialized training in health behavior coaching, health assessment, nutritional interventions for mental and physical health, motivational interviewing, applied psychophysiology, and consultation. In this masterclass, Dr. Wiles focuses on resilience and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – when the amount of time between your heartbeats fluctuates slightly. Undetectable, except by specialized machines but a possible indicator of future health problems including a heart conditions or depression. Find out more about Dr. Wiles’ work at the Hanu Heath website.For more information on OA, please visit our website; www.oxygenadvantage.com.Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast.https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

“It’s athlete preparation… I’ve been doing this for 40 years and I’m still learning.”This week on the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by lecturer, trainer, author and widely considered one of the foremost authorities on strength and conditioning, Michael Boyle. Beginning his career in the early 80s, Mike struggled to find work full time in the new field of strength and conditioning and worked at the college level. He often offered his services for free and supported himself working in bars for the first 10 years of his career. He would go on the work with the Boston Bruins, the World Series winning Boston Red Sox, and the gold medal winning US Women’s Olympic Hockey Team.Mike explains how strength and conditioning has evolved over the years. From originally being “the weights guy” he evolved the conditioning side and looked at preparation, healthy eating, core training and more. Another challenge he faced was trying to change old school mentalities about preparation for athletic competition. Even facing resistance for pushing the now very common knowledge that a big part of preparation for an athlete was being healthy.A continued evolution was what brought Mike to breathing. When he first heard the diaphragm described as a muscle and knowing that muscles can be trained, began bringing it into core training. Mike quickly learned that simply asking people to exhale to their maximum accessed the deep abdominal muscles including, the internal obliques and the transverse abdominis and could greatly benefit strength and conditioning core training. This is a very interesting conversation with someone at the top of their field.More on Michael Boyle can be found on his website bodybyboyle.com.For more information on breathing for health and performance, visit the Oxygen Advantage® website.Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

“Breathing is 50% of movement. Movement is everything.”On the latest edition of the Oxygen Advantage podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by Mads Tömörkènyi, Copenhagen-based author and scientific researcher of biomechanics, neurophysiology and anthropology.Mads is the author of Human Mechanics: Unleashing the Potential of a Highly Advanced Species, where he points to four main pillars of health: nutrition, breathing, movement, and sleep. Blending history and scientific evidence, Human Mechanics aims to help us “experience first hand the incredible benefits of digging deep into your biological potential”.With a background in sports science and physical training, Mads’ studies have given him a deep understanding of the important role that breathing plays when trying to get the best out of physical movement and training. Mads points to the importance of using the diaphragm when breathing during exercise and physical movement. He notes that too much emphasis can be put on big belly breathing which uses abdominal muscles but not the diaphragm to the same degree. He and Patrick agree that people put too much emphasis on “the six pack” as the sign of true fitness which is not the case. In fact, they note that too much emphasis on building abs, and therefore focusing on just one group of muscles, has a negative effect on the development of core strength. Putting a focus on breathing during physical exertion is the safest and most efficient way to build abs without neglecting the development of essential muscles. For more information on OA, please visit our website; www.oxygenadvantage.com.Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

“You cannot study this without trying, so you have to get into the water.” On this edition of the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by research scientist, cold immersion specialist and author of new book ‘Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life’, Dr. Susanna Søberg PhD. A scientific researcher, Susanna’s studies originally focused on metabolism and more specifically, brown fat, the body’s healthy fat that helps regulate temperature. As part of the research she started looking at how the brown fat reacts to various cold situations such as cold air on your skin or entering a cold room. This eventually led her to look at cold water immersion and ice swimming, a well-known pastime pursuit in her own home of Denmark and throughout Scandinavia. After facing her fear and entering the water, Susanna soon learned the importance of breathing when putting the body into such an extreme environment. She says that there are big health advantages to cold water immersion and that everyone taking part could benefit greatly from learning to breathe calmly and lightly during cold water immersion. Susanna takes Patrick and Daniel through how cold temperatures affect people differently, how important controlling your breathing is in dealing with the cold, how commonly cold water immersion is used around the world for health benefits and much more. Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life is available from all good book stores.For more information on breathing for health and performance, visit the Oxygen Advantage® website.Check out Spotify or your local podcast provider to listen to more of the OA Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d

James Cannings “Kids are growing up and are now coming into the workforce. And in another ten years they're gonna make up a big part of that workforce and they're angry.”In this week’s episode, Patrick and Daniel are joined by James Cannings, Sustainability Officer for advertising firm MSQ. James was the co-founder of MMT digital which he grew from a staff of 3 to over 100.The company was acquired by MSQ where James now serves as Sustainability Officer. While much of his focus is on external environmental sustainability, he also points to the importance of internal sustainability as regards our own health and wellbeing.James explains how he is role is a much newer one to the corporate world and is constantly evolving. Currently his focus is on environmental sustainability but he admits he has a “deep fascination” with broader sustainability across the supply chain, the workforce and beyond. He points out that the future for sustainability may be very positive thanks to a younger generation that are more concerned about their health and wellbeing and have seen what previous generations have done to the environment.James also takes us through his own internal sustainability journey as he turned to yoga and better eating in his 30s as the pressure of selling his company lead to poor health and eating habits. It's a journey he says he could not have made without the help of his wife Em.For more on the Oxygen Advantage visit www.oxygenadvantage.com.Or check out Season 1 of the podcast athttps://open.spotify.com/show/5XTS4B3ODaEfsbNOBmYb6d.

“If you are terrified of vulnerability, best of luck having mental toughness.”This week on the OA podcast Patrick and Daniel are joined by author, coach and mentor Todd Herman who trains and educates professional athletes, leaders, and public figures on performance, strategy, mind-set, and execution.Starting a peak performance and coaching service in 1997, Todd has been closely involved in the field ever since. Despite struggles starting his business, the Canadian was able to build a strong, successful company and built a very large collection of clients across the sporting world, even to the point where he was working with different people in over 85 separate sports.Leveraging this expertise into developing his own method for boosting athletic performance and into releasing his bestselling book ‘The Alter Ego Effect’, Todd has seen his success just grow from there.He speaks to Patrick and Daniel about how he has started to bring breath work into his teaching and how he helps give athletes the tools they need to prepare mentally and find consistency.

“When you understand the principles of what you’re actually doing with your nervous system, it’s just a lot more straightforward.”This week on the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel speak with yoga master, TEDx Speaker, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur extraordinaire Lucas Rockwood.Lucas is the successful founder of YOGABODY and since the earliest days of his love affair with yoga he has made it his goal to find out the relationship between yoga and breathing and he admits, it has not been an easy road to walk.Yoga was the saviour of Lucas who was a very unhealthy twenty something in 2002. He worked a job he hated, was abusing drugs and alcohol and only fuelled himself with quick and easy junk food. Something had to change, and for Lucas that change came after a challenging but rewarding yoga class.Since then, he has travelled the world to work with master yogis and continues his journey to clearly define the breathing exercises for yoga. He notes that the main focus in yoga classes is on the poses and, while essential, this can often mean participants are lacking in the specifics of how to breathe for various postures.It a goal of his to educate the yoga community about the importance of the specific breath for the right posture.

“There are three main physiological targets that you can hit when you do any sort of training session; Aerobic Target, Anaerobic Target and Neuromuscular Target.”This week on the OA podcast Patrick and Daniel are joined by author, consultant and expert in high intensity training, Dr. Paul Laursen to talk about his work.An avid sportsman throughout his life, Dr. Laursen describes himself as a “failed athlete” who had taken a deep interest in sports from an early age. He was able to leverage that love of sports into his successful career in medicine and sports science, specialising in High Intensity Training for his PHD.While in a professor at Edith Cowen University in Perth, Australia, he met and carried out many clinical studies on Interval Training with his long term colleague Martin Buchheit. Following the successful publication of many papers and a large review of their work they co-wrote the very successful ‘Science and Application of High Intensity Interval Training’.Dr. Laursen outlines some of the reasoning and methods behind his research and explains how he has started to put more of a focus in his work on breathing to see if performance can be improved at high intensity through targeting and conditioning the respiratory muscles.

“It was my breathing outside the water that influenced my breathing inside the water.”This week, Patrick and Daniel are joined by multiple World Champion free-diver Karoline Meyer to talk about how breath control has benefited her life and career diving to incredible, World Record-breaking depths, without breathing equipment.The Brazilian national takes us through her training regime and explains how she began using breath control as part of her dive training. She outlines the kinds of complex physical and psychological training and breath control techniques she has utilised to make her a leader in the field.

“I love to work hard, but for me it was more about making sure I could fortify myself.”In this week’s episode, Patrick and Daniel are joined by elite Australian CrossFit athlete and author James Newbury to discuss his life and career and the benefits that breathing techniques have provided him.Four times named Australia’s fittest man, James first discovered breathing techniques in 2016 “passively” and after his first rookie year competing in CrossFit, he looked into breathing more deeply to improve his performance, endurance and recovery.“And it just flourished from there,” he explains. He says his methods were questioned initially by fellow competitors when he would utilise breathing techniques prior to events but after his times improved and he moved up the rankings he says this way of thinking started to change.James explains how he has managed to remain positive despite a massive setback which hit him following an excellent season in 2019. He outlines how during mountain bike training for an Iron Man triathlon, he crashed his bike into a tree and suffered a punctured lung, mild concussion and a broken back. He tells Patrick and Daniel how he dealt with this setback and how he was able to motivate his recovery through breathing and mental fortitude and actually take part in that Iron Man triathlon only five weeks later.

“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.

“I would have loved to have discovered [breathing/mindfulness] when I was 25… This would have made a difference for me, for everything else that I did.”In this week’s episode of the Oxygen Advantage podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by former NHL professional, two time Stanley Cup winner and Olympic runner-up Johnny Oduya. Making is way through the Swedish professional scene, Johnny made it to the National Hockey League (NHL), the world leader in ice hockey in his early 20s, reaching an apex in the 2013 and 2015 seasons when he won the league’s highest honour, the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks.Despite his renown as an elite level ice hockey player, the Swede has taken a huge interest in mindfulness and breathing in recent years, leading to the opening of his own ‘HALE’ studios in Sweden. He takes Daniel and Patrick on his journey to finding focus and how important mental focus is for athletes.

“I was not curious anymore.”This week on the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel speak with retired Danish footballer Allan Gaarde to talk about how breathing helped bring back focus, motivation and fitness to his life after a career in football.Allan enjoyed a 14-year career as a player in the beautiful game before transitioning back to the sport post-retirement as Sporting Director of top flight Danish club Aalborg BK. After leaving this post in 2019, Allan found himself ‘tired all the time’, having let a lot of his physical fitness fall by the wayside. He explains how breathing techniques brought additional motivation back into his life and helped him find a healthy balance.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Stress is not just ok, stress is essential.”This week on the OA Podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by Swedish Army Captain Niclas Wisén to speak about how breathing has become an essential part of his life both in and out of the military. A psychologist and captain in the Swedish Armed Forces with over 10 years’ experience, Niclas has been involved in the training and selection of new recruits for much of his time in the military. During this time, he has incorporated breathing as a way of improving performance and coping with stress. He outlines how things like Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) and various breathing techniques can help physically and psychologically in many facets of a soldier’s everyday life and during the rigors of military performance.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode of Invincible Breathing with Patrick McKeown, the leader in the wellness industry and independent consultant on the Global Wellness Summit advisory board, Anna Bjurstam, tells us her experience working with medical doctors and wellness during the last 20 years and how the wellness industry has evolved.

David Jackson - Master Instructor of Oxygen Advantage, former professional rugby player, accredited UKSCA Strength & Conditioning coach, NASM performance enhancement & corrective exercise specialist joins Patrick McKeown to discuss how breathwork can improve performance in Team Sports, recovery, and pre-competition warm-ups.Understand the science behind it and how can you implement it in your everyday life to manage stress and anxiety.

In the first episode of the Oxygen Advantage podcast, Patrick McKeown and Daniel Palsson are joined in conversation with Krav-Maga expert, Master StrongFirst Instructor, and Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor, Peter Lakatos. He tells them of his experience training professional athletes and how breathing is essential to get the best results from functional movement.