Mark Bell's Power Project - Just BSing and Nasal Breathing - MBPP Ep. 755

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

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That wouldn't be good, right? Yeah, he has a very chill demeanor. You don't realize how much I eat, man. Like that one meal it goes i was thinking about it because i've been kind of doing some one meal a day stuff myself and i was like and i'm sitting there eating for like three hours i'm like man he must be just like going nuts on this yeah i will uh i'll chain together meals yeah i'll be like i'm just having dinner but like my steak is running out so it's like, ah, let me go

start cooking something else. Uh-oh, what'd you forget? It starts... You have like a half-drunk Kratom over there? Half-drunk? I don't want to go to the office right now. Full drunk? Yeah, I got a full drunk. Let's go! Give me my drugs. The only type of drugs I take. Kratom.

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We got sleep bullet. What? Yeah. We got some new different, like, rather than just like the capsules and the potions and everything,

we got- Those little tabs. We got tabs. Damn. I have other stuff in them, I think. Actually, no, it's just made with,

I'm sorry, it's made with just a different type of kratom. Yeah, before I forget, because I always forget, mindbullet.com, you guys see us, we take this shit every day. Well, not every day. Most podcasts will take that. They like the potions.

I like the capsules. The potion made you throw up the one and only time you took it. We're not supposed to tell anybody that. It was too strong for you why do i laugh when i get on the mic oh no spinning and shit uh so yeah just be careful with the potions if you're not ready for it um it'll it'll knock your ass on the floor we were podcasting in mid podcast i i had to run out and yeah so that we don't talk about that i was looking at pitbull torres yesterday when he

took it i was like he's 180 pounds he said he's never done this before he just went off the glass yeah yeah like what he's talking about he's when he's talking about smoking pot it's like he's so high right now because i smoke yeah yeah he's every day he's like yeah just go home smoke weed but uh mindbullet.com promo code power project will save you a shit ton of money uh links to them somewhere down in the description podcast show notes but yeah for sure just mindbullet.com and at checkout enter promo code power project uh i still don't understand how it's sold how it's paid for all that good stuff but once you guys go there you'll figure it out it's legal for now

ish yeah i'm also stock up on it while you can like also though that's how you know it's really good because it's like people are trying to get rid of it yeah yeah because that shit's working yeah it is it is really just weird how like um i don't know what that number is i have to call that back it's really weird how good it makes you feel. And you're not like, not high, but... Yeah, you're high. No, man. Until you've smoked weed. Okay, okay.

Because you've had shrooms, right? Which is like, I'm one with the earth, right? You've done kratom, which is like, hi, I feel happy and I want to talk. When you smoke weed, it's like you're just high. It's just a different level. It's different, man. You know, like shrooms, I feel like there's a level of control.

Kratom, control. Weed, there's still control, but you're just out there. You're just kind of giggling. People don't talk about like high off of anything else, really. It's usually just off of marijuana, right? Where they kind of say they were high. I mean, somebody might, I guess, say high off of cocaine or something,

but it's like, I don't know. I still never try it. Too many people say it's like, you know, if you feel like Superman and you feel like the world is yours and you can do anything, that's not a good thing. You gotta be humble.

Your inhibitions are gone and you're just like, yeah, let's fucking go. I'm too scared to try it. I'm too much of a pussy. I've never tried it. I don't, I would never would.

I would love to see you on cocaine. I don't know why. I would just love to see him on different drugs. Cause you're generally just like this. Yeah. Right. So I think I'd be talking super fast. I would be just,

I would just be ecstatic that like, I no longer work for like like for like slingshot anymore if he was on cocaine because we would all be like get like the longest text message be like hey this is what we're gonna do tomorrow it's like oh shit dude like a long ass day fuck dude that's like a like a three-day photo shoot in one day all right i guess so plus we're gonna film hustlemania and then we're gonna start a new company then we're gonna podcast film hustle mania and then we're going to start a new company. Then we're going to podcast. It's like, Oh,

here we go. Some high performers do use Coke for productivity, right? Like people like that work hours. There's a guy that's on, a guy that's on Rogan that, um, talk quite a bit about like how he periodically like does Coke and does other stuff.

He's like a professor. That's awesome. I mean, and, uh, he's like researched it and stuff. He just says like little dosages here and there. It's like sounds totally insane, but.

Microdosing? Yeah, I don't know. Microdosing cocaine. I don't know. You know. Sign me up. Hey, I don't know. Being real with all the wild.

Used to be in soda, right? Was it? Yeah, it used to be in Coke. Coca-Cola? Yeah, it was. I mean, probably some mild amount, but. There's the aspect of just because we did something doesn't mean it's good for sure but but but with all the weird shit that we've learned on this

podcast with all these guests you know i wouldn't be surprised if a little bit of coke does you some good i wouldn't be surprised either but all right well especially like if you have like uh i mean people are looking for like chemical dependency, right? What if somebody like my brother who was bipolar, when he did something like cocaine, what if that just latched onto his brain? Like, holy shit, this is exactly what I needed. And maybe it made him feel a little too good. Maybe he did too much of it. I don't know. But it would make sense that it might help your brain produce stuff that maybe under normal circumstances you're missing.

And the amount of people who have done shrooms and it's literally helped them through traumatic experiences that they've had. There's so many stories of people who like have used it for therapeutic uses and they're just like depression. All these things are gone. I'm not saying go do shrooms. I'm just saying like there could be – I mean different chemicals could have different uses. Yeah, I mean because like the way like I used to and everybody used to look at like LSD, but then now it's like, well, actually, I don't see us ever looking at cocaine that way. Like it's – Don't you have a little bit of personal experience?

A little bit, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, back in my day, yeah. I mean I don't have an addictive personality, so so that's why I don't talk about it. Yeah. Because I tried it, and I was like, whoa, I see why people love this stuff. But it's not cool for me to say that, because that's just like saying somebody like, oh,

I'll try it, and I'll be just fine. No, because you might not be just fine. You might get fucked up, because i've done it more than once that second time i was just like oh this is weird i wonder if this is just like lower quality or i had less or what's going on here thankfully the person i was with was just like you'll never experience that first time again i was like whoa okay i was like then it of course all came raging like into my head like oh then i'm gonna try to do more like yeah i'm out i'm good yeah yeah but i can see why people like it so yeah that was my my two and done can't say one and done

what's the deal with uh elon musk he's like not buying twitter now or what what happened you guys know dog i don't know i heard a little bit but i don't know true because apparently they wouldn't disclose the bots oh sorry and i gotta eat't know truth because apparently they wouldn't disclose the bots. Oh, sorry, Andrew. I got to eat this mic's dick. They wouldn't disclose the bots. Well, it is a dick, so you got to eat that dick. Yeah, they wouldn't disclose how many bots there were or something like that. I think they're claiming like it only makes up like 5% and he's claiming it makes up 90%.

It's like, holy shit. Like, does that mean that Twitter is kind of fake? If he thinks there's that, I mean, what percentage would there have to be for us to be like, yeah, it's pretty fake. Like even above what, 25%? Like if 25% of the stuff on there is fake or driven by, maybe not even fake, but controlled by like some sort of artificial intelligence. Yeah. I guess I would think that that was kind of fake, right? You know, I was just going fake, right? You know.

I was just going to, hold on, let me read it. I didn't mean to cut you off. So just quick Google search. First thing that pops up, don't know if it's true. It's from CBS News. So you take it with however you want to take it. Musk says he'll scrap Twitter by unless he gets clarity on fake volume. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is putting pressure on Twitter saying his deal to buy the company can't move forward unless it shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.

Yeah, which I don't buy. I don't think it's less than 5%. Yeah, there's no way. There's no fucking way you look at instagram because there are these websites for instagram where you you first off you can see the accounts you can tell by the interaction certain accounts get if they've purchased followers i know a few people who have like 1.4 or 1.3 million followers um get four comments not even no not even because you can purchase comments you can purchase views but you can tell by the interaction like that like 90% of your audience has been purchased.

So you see that people can actually purchase views. They can purchase followers. They can purchase interaction. Where are all these accounts coming from? These accounts have been made for these businesses. You can do the same thing with Twitter. You can do the same thing with all these different social medias so i wouldn't be surprised if there's a fucking lot i also wonder like what would be considered a fake account that's what i was gonna ask you know because

like if i like i don't really do much with my twitter but sometimes people have multiple accounts so what if i have a couple that are dead that i've just never did anything about. Like, I wonder how would Twitter even be aware if something's like a bot? Like, what does that even mean? What does a bot even mean? Like, what are we even talking about here? Yeah, absolutely. Because like, wherever you get a fake...

We're going down a rabbit hole. Yeah, like, not a fake account, but fake followers and all this stuff. They also follow other accounts right like then they also comment on other accounts and i'm not saying that it's a real person but like how would you be able to be like like yep that's a fake person it's like well no it had a a unique um what's it called email or something yeah the uh emi number on a cell phone like they can track all that shit down and that's how you like you you go to these places then they have fucking rooms full of cell

phones and they're all watching and liking the exact same thing over and over and over and over it's fucking crazy but on each one of those somebody made an account so it's like I get it yes they are bots but I in my opinion when I think of a bot I think of like one person on a computer made like a million accounts and then those million all do the exact same thing. Like that's what in my head. It's not like actual like each individual phone. So, yeah, I don't know. That's that.

Why do you guys think? Why do you guys think that Elon Musk gets a pass? You know, like he's the cool billionaire. But then there's like the evil billionaire. There's Jeff Bezos who people think that he's like going to do more harm than good. There's Bill Gates. Like, I don't know. Like, why do you think people, first of all, Bill Gates, like why do you think people hate Bill Gates so much?

Because you know why people hate Bill Gates. Yeah. I mean, he looks like a pussy and he's, you know, he's, he's trying to, he's, he just, he does, you're going to hate the guy for that? He does some like, uh,

some real like, um, like evil villain type shit. That's why. Does he have the laugh? It's the conspiracy stuff, right? It's like,

yeah, it's all the stuff with like, uh, like the, the patent behind the thing that caused like two years of, like they own that for some fucking reason and then it's like oh now magically you have the medicine for that like that's convenient

and then he's telling everybody to uh stop eating meat and then he owns more farmland than anybody on the planet now huh is it because he's gonna start growing vegetables and start selling that shit like it just he does a lot of weird shit and he's way out of shape. And I'm saying all this as somebody who plays on Xbox. I do have Microsoft shit in my house. Like that's never going to end. So, yeah. But we have another guy that's going to send people in a rocket to Mars.

And that's OK with everybody. I think it's only because they sign a permission slip. This multi-planet guy, he's fine. So with Musk, though, I think we're multi-planet humans. Yeah, I think why Musk gets a pass is because like he'll do like funny shit that's like trending on. Well, he'll make something trending on Twitter. He made a blowtorch, right?

Or like a flame thrower or whatever. The boring company. He's, you know, that's the other thing is he has multiple multiple businesses that are multi-million dollar businesses but also like he'll you know just like tweet out like dogecoin to the moon and it's like next thing you know that shit's fucking going crazy so a lot of people other people have made money off of just following him on twitter he'll do some dumb shit like uh about Deus X, the video game. It's like, wait, how the fuck do you know that?

He'll tweet out, dude, Halo is actually a really good game. It's like, whoa, he plays Halo? It's like with it, yeah. Yeah, so I think that's why he's like the cool guy. And then, of course, trying to buy Twitter to keep speech free or whatever the fuck he said. Keep freedom free or some shit like that. I would say like 10 years ago bill gates was like put up on a pedestal yeah and he had this like billionaire

club where you donated i think like 95 of your profit from your company i don't know like exactly what it meant but it was it doesn't mean that you are donating 95 of the money that you've ever made in your life but it was him and a bunch of other people that were donating these like enormous amounts of their uh like profits and stuff like that and so it seemed for a long time that he was uh into being a philanthropist and if i did say that word right that's a hard one to spit out um he had all these i saw like a documentary but it's probably funded by him and or one of his companies. On Netflix? Yeah, on Netflix

where he was like helping with sewage in like India and stuff. And I saw that and I saw it a couple years ago and I was like, this, fuck man, this is above and beyond anything I would ever think of. This guy's amazing. I saw that because of you. You mentioned that. Yeah. And then I watched it. So, yeah, like that's

immediately what I think of when I think of Bill Gates because i saw that doc but i think the main reason why people are just like all up elon musk's ass is just because he's been on rogan he's been on rogan twice you know i mean it's like he people have heard long form content people have been able to hear and like he he acts like a troll on the internet which is cool i think it's cool when a billionaire is acting like a troll and fucking throwing jokes at people but again some people didn't think that was cool but like you haven't i mean i know bill gates has been interviewed but they're always very professional interviews they're not just conversations about bullshit right uh zucker book was zucker book zuckerberg can't fucking say his name right now he was interviewed recently too but it wasn't

uh he was on a podcast but it was again it seemed very scripted so i think since people have been able to see musk they've been able to relate to musk especially joe's audience like they love him and i think he's uh sick too but that's why you know you don't have any other billionaire that's done some shit like that i agree with that he definitely speaks um uh i don't know like what mark zuckerberg's iq is but like it seems like it's out of this world and and obviously elon musk is very smart but elon musk uh somehow still talks like us yeah and he just smoked a doobie on the show, right? Like he was just going with the flow, right?

Like he got high and he was just hanging and he seems to have like similar complaints about stuff that we do too. Like he'll get frustrated with like similar shit that everybody else gets frustrated with. Elon's just like me. Yeah, it makes you think he's like uh more like us but hearing like mark zuckerberg um talked to like he was in court for something with our government and he was just he was just destroying them they're lawyers and stuff they had some of the best people in the world trying to come at him and he was just like same with jeff bezos it

was like he couldn't they just uh were just just crushing – the government was like I guess trying to – I forget exactly what it was they were doing a while back. But a bunch of them were in front of Congress and it just made our government look very stupid. I was like this is not very good. I think with Musk also, he doesn't really have like that corporate speak, corporate voice, you know, nothing, he doesn't have to hold a press conference for shit.

Like nobody's going to write his, you know, when he addresses the public or whatever the hell, that's all, that also helps a lot. That's a really good point. You know, he's,

I don't, I wouldn't, I don't know if I can say he's charismatic, but like, he's not going to like, he'll respond by himself. He doesn't need a team to write a response for whatever. So that's huge, too.

So that's why people like Steve Jobs a lot. I know Steve Jobs was like I think a lot of people thought he was an asshole, too. But like when he did like he talked about the phone and when he had something new to share uh people went fucking crazy for that the audience was packed um people were like holding on to every word that he said and he seemed to like really have good control of the room seemed like he was really good public speaker yeah yeah i wonder what he would think of the m2 imax or macbooks that we were talking about yeah we were talking earlier about like air dropping shit and so And some of this stuff like makes me looney tune. Like people, when people have a Samsung, like that alone drives me nuts.

I can't leave people like a voice note thing. Nope. Which like a voice note is like the greatest thing ever. Because sometimes you like don't have time to like text somebody or whatever. And sometimes I see that they're like, I don't even have the ability to communicate with this person in this way like fuck him man i'm just not going to communicate you're listening you can go to the voice note app right and he has to record but then he has to send it to them which sucks but that's another it is it is another option um but then even like videos and stuff and like things get all

fucking jumbled up but what I don't understand about any of the phones well at least actually on those phones I don't even think you can send a video at all no I don't know how anybody survives okay boomer comment no no no like even like androids can't send other android

videos either they cannot do it why do y'all make this choice all the android owners in the audience why do you do it i don't know what they're doing because we're apple we don't want to pay for the overpriced apple bullshit so then like uh the other thing i don't understand is like even when you are apple to apple when you when you have an apple phone to another apple phone they make this technology like a 4k and they do all this stuff and then you can't even use that sometimes like when you go to send when you go to send a like 4k you know video to somebody else or

sometimes we're trying to use stuff for work or to post stuff uh then it turns into like some file or some shit and then it's like trying to figure i know i'm a million years old and i know i probably sound like i'm a million years old but like it doesn't work and it's like why why make the technology this far advanced it's kind of like when the with the uh god damn what's the name of that uh camera that does the surround, that little tiny box camera years ago. GoPro? The GoPro. When the GoPro came out, they made that thing all fancy,

and they made it all HD and stuff right off the bat. And then if you, like, loaded it to your computer, your computer was, like, slow as fuck. And it was hard to use those files, hard to work with those files. And the same thing is always with the phone. Like, they always are ratcheting up the technology but then to receive the technology or use the technology can't even barely use it yeah it hasn't caught up i i think and again i have no idea but it has to do with like literally like

like you couldn't send like a uh i'll just we'll just use a 4k tv in the mail like in an envelope right like you just you can't it doesn't fit in your mailbox uh so I think that's what it has to do with like the the iMessenger like it you like through my phone I can't send you a sandwich yes even though I'd love to but like that I think it automatically that 4k file will like down res just so that way it doesn't take a million years to send to you and then when you get it it's like a fucked up file but yeah that is yeah it's just i don't know eventually it's going to catch up and then when we start sending 8k videos it's gonna be like this

piece of shit only sends in 4k like god like might as well get a kiosera it's the price of better quality you know like you know you want better quality videos. Those file sizes are going to be dummy big. Hey, do you guys know, do either one of you guys know on TikTok or Instagram what they load up? Like what will they actually handle in terms of their like pixels in terms of like, whether it's HD or 4K? There's like no information. I tried to look it up a bunch of times. Yeah, there's different things but like the the basic thing so like what we see in everything and i still have to make uh i'll get to that later but everything's 1920 oh 9 by 16 so 19 sorry 16 by 9

so it's widescreen 1920 by 1080 so if you just flip that on its side 1080 by 1920 now it's 9 by 16 so whatever the fuck ratio you want to get to that is good uh the thing where it gets fucked up is that like tiktok uh reels they all will usually force your video to be 30 frames per second it'll be compressed in some way and then it will be compressed. And the more accurate you can be with your compression on export. So like let's say the megabits or whatever the fuck is like 10 on the export. If you upload it to TikTok and Reels and it's like should be closer to four or five, then it's going to compress your shit. But if you can get it right on the money to where it's like four or five, then it won't have to compress your video and it'll look a little bit better because it's not doing its own internal compression.

But you're right. There's no information on all that shit. You just have to nerd out and know exactly what to search for. God damn. And this is all from somebody who doesn't even fuck with that stuff anymore. I don't have time. So it's just normally like, oh, does that look good? Cool, go. god damn and this is all from somebody who doesn't even fuck with that stuff anymore like i just i don't have time so it's just normally like oh does that look good cool go because you always try to record like with the best quality but then you're like does it even matter nope it doesn't and

that's when everybody freaks out over like oh this doesn't shoot 4k or my screen's not 4k your eyes can't tell the difference never will 4k looks real good though on on a screen what tall big screen my phone you can tell the difference between 1080 and 4k on your cell phone i think on youtube i can because youtube allows you to put a 4k video so when 1080p versus 4k because i used to post like on youtube i can tell the difference. The video quality of the newest phone seems to be superior in some ways. It seems to be better, right? Yeah.

But what I'm saying is on a screen that's not 4K, you're not going to be able to tell. No. Yeah, no. The screen itself needs to be 4K as well. Yeah. I do need a new phone. The new one's kind of not the one to get, though. The Pro Max?

The new, new one. The 14? The 14. The 14's not out yet. I know. Do they preview it or something? A little bit, yeah. Oh.

But from what I understand, the 15 is going to be like a huge game changer. Oh, really? But like big shock, oh, the next one's going to be good, but the next, next one's going to be better. Like, well, of course. But like they might go to USB-C and then, of course, add all kinds of shit to the camera and whatnot. How are you guys juggling shit right now? Because we're doing a lot of these shows.

I'm doing Smelly's Kitchen. I'm running. I'm lifting. Are you guys holding down the fort okay? How are you doing, Andrew? You got a little freaking baby at home. Yeah, I am leaning a lot on my wife. She's doing a lot, and I'm just grateful.

But I was actually talking to Nsema about this. The alarm clock just keeps getting earlier and earlier. So, like, I had it set for 6, and things were, like, pretty good, but I was constantly rushing, like, oh, I didn't get to eat today. So I'm going to have to like fast accidental, accidental fast. And then it's like, let me, let me put that up to five 30. And it's like, okay, I ate, but like, fuck, I'm kind of running late.

I didn't get to do my stretching. Like something always got skipped. It's like, let's do five o'clock. Like, I think we're getting there. Like, ah, but I'm still rushing. So, uh, and then rushing because like, when I get to the gym, it's like, oh fuck, I like can't get on this machine or whatever it may be. So today I bumped it up to four 30 and that was a pretty good sweet spot, especially cause we didn't start early today. But that's what I'm doing right now. Um, is just kind of setting the alarm back up to that four, 4am hour. Um, that's helping a lot. Everything else has been, I don't want to say a crapshoot cause that's not, that's not.m. hour. That's helping a lot.

Everything else has been, I don't want to say a crapshoot because that's not the way it is, but I don't know if I'm going to get in the cold plunge tonight because I was doing it first thing in the morning and it happened every day. But now that it's happening in the afternoon or later, it's like, ah, shit, this, that, and I got to go to bed. So it's like, I don it's you know this that and i gotta go to bed so it's like i don't know if that's gonna happen uh dinner has been kind of like a rush so like i have to start prepping that the night before way more often than i think because it used to be just

like oh can you know you start thawing some meat or something now it's like okay yeah i'll try to get to that but shit's kind of going crazy with aurelius right now that's like fuck i should have done that when i left so little things like that that i still have some loose ends that i got to tie up cold plunge is a lot easier before you eat i'll tell you that much and there's that too there's that when i get home you know if i if i eat like i'm done i'm not going to cold pl cold plunge. I don't know what the difference is, but there seems to be some sort of big difference. I think maybe you're too relaxed after you ate. You're just like, you're like too relaxed to want to do anything difficult at that point.

So for me, it's very difficult after I eat. Yeah. So that's actually what would happen to me too. If I ate, it's just like, it's probably not going to happen. And the problem is by the time I get home, because I'm eating one meal in the morning and then I might have a protein shake. I might have a legendary tasty pastry, which is amazing. So I might have something very small, but it's going to be like high in protein in the middle of that, but that's it. So my next meal, I'm like really, really wanting that next

meal. So when I get home, I know it doesn't take very long to jump in that cold plunge, but it's like another thing. It's like, I'm going to have to get cold. I'm going to be wet. I got to dry off. I got to change. I got to da, da, da, da, da. And then start cooking. It's like, I'm just going to go straight to cooking. Quick question for both of you guys. Have you guys a pH checked your cold plunge? No, son. All right. Take those pH strips and dip it in there just to make sure that the pH level on the water is good because you want to be making sure that water is nice and sanitized.

Also— I probably got to just change it all out. You might not need to. No, no. Trust me. You don't. As long as you just put a little bit of the sanitizer in and then check the pH because it has the pH increase or decrease, y'all are fine. You don't need to change the water. How about the filter?

Do you have to once a month? Just set a reminder on your phone once a month to change your filter. They gave they put six filters on one and a half months and they just change it. Actually, another thing you could do it. Sorry, guys, for all you guys, cold plunges. Make sure you change the filter monthly. But what you can do if you don't have another filter is you can legit take the filter out, turn the cold plunge off, take the filter out, rinse it off and put the filter back

in. It's that simple. And it takes literally two minutes to do. And you can do it with the plunge full of water. Yes. Okay. You do it with plunge full of water. So just make sure.

Maybe I'll do that today. Yeah. Go find the YouTube video on it. Okay. Just make sure because yeah, some people don't ever do that. And the plunge is really cool because you, some people don't ever do that. And the plunge is really cool because you don't have to change out the water. You know, when you get a fridge and do that shit, you have to change out the water consistently because it gets nasty. You don't plunge. But one thing I noticed when doing breath hold stuff in the plunge after eating,

extremely uncomfortable, not recommended. It's not recommended that you do breath hold stuff anyway. I ain't going to be responsible for a death. But definitely not after eating. They always told you as a kid, don't go to the pool after you eat. Well, don't go fucking plunge and breath hold after you eat. It's hard to breathe sometimes, especially – oh, right in there. Too easy. We're going to have to start pushing it further back.

We need like a little mini backboard over there. We do. We do. Yeah, right? Yeah, make need like a little mini backboard over there. We do. We do. Yeah, right? Yeah, make it look more professional. That'd be nice. Now he wants to throw everything over there. He wants to throw his caveman coffee,

a biscuit tea over there. That's just really good. We don't have no code, but guys, check out caveman coffee. We do have a code. They can use Smelly's Kitchen, I believe. Really? I think it works, yeah.

Okay. You can give them 20% off. Use Smelly's Kitchen. Yeah, go for it. We love those peeps. Does that one have caffeine? No, I believe. Really? I think it works, yeah. Okay. You give them 20% off. Use Smelly's Kitchen. Yeah, go for it. We love those peeps. Does that one have caffeine? No, no caffeine. It's in the fridge if you want. You want me to go grab you one? I'll get it. Don't worry about it. Okay. Oh, wait. Our sound guy's

leaving. He produces everything. Just in SEMA, do the thing with the crank and then you'll figure it out. Nothing's gonna work. We're fucked. You gonna try another shot? Oh! That was bullshit. It rim jobbed man yeah it went in and then it poked right back out that's happened sometimes and i do have to say this at the middle of the episode because whenever you say at the end not as many people go

we're at like 14 30 people in discord right now damn almost 1500 members just going at it talking helping each other out we dip in there all the time. So go to the Discord. The link's in the description. I'll tell you guys again at the end of the episode, but go to the Discord. The link's in the description. People lifting, people getting in shape, people getting jacked, people losing weight, right? Yeah, and they're giving us topics, man.

There's a lot of things that they're really curious about. So yeah. That's awesome. Check out the Discord community because they're popping. Six calories. you're not nice we'll kick you out hi project family i hope you guys are enjoying this bite did you know that cocaine increases your dopamine levels by two and a half times above baseline okay why is this important why is this important because you know a really cool thing that we learned from andrew hooverman is that getting yourself into cold water or cold water exposure like the cold cold plunge, does the same thing.

Two and a half times above baseline, and you have those sustained dopamine levels for up to four or five hours after cold exposure. This is why we love cold plunging so much. I cannot say this enough. It has been one of the best additions to our daily routines. If you can't already, just take cold showers. But if you want to take to the next level, get the cold plunge. And Andrew, how can they do it? You guys got to head over to the cold plunge.com and check out enter promo code power project to save $150 off. I keep saying it. I'm going to keep saying it till I'm blue in the face and not blue from the cold blue from holding my breath. This has been the absolute

best thing I've ever done for my mental health. I just, like I said, I can't say it enough. So again, thecoldplunge.com, promo code POWERPROJECT. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Let's get back to this podcast. Six calories? Can you afford that, Andrew? You okay? I don't know.

Let me check my macros. You okay for today? Can you spare six? Sometimes it really is wild when people are like, oh, six calories. I can't fit this in my macros like real stress dude there's one whole carb in here i remember people telling me in the past or like i wouldn't eat a quest bar because it had like eight grams of fat it's like it's too much represents too much of my fats for the day i'm like what in the fuck kind of diet

are you on yeah that's like over one-fifth of my daily allotment so that's a lot you know go for it man fuck it but you know sometimes you do need to go through that phase of like eating and being so stringent yeah 100 yeah because i ain't tripping over nothing these days but there were times where i'd be like fuck i'll be four grams over my fat calories i can't do this right now you know i mean it's just yeah you and i went back and forth when i was doing that shit she's like dude uh i fucked up i only had like 25 grams of fat do i cut out my protein and just have butter or like what do i do and you're just like calm down you're gonna be fine it's one day it. Okay. But the thing is I did it yesterday too.

What the fuck? That's the thing about it though, especially when you're tracking. And Mark, actually, there was a question in the Discord about you and tracking. We'll hit it up in another episode. But when you're tracking initially, if you do make a mistake on one day, just try not to do it the next day because that does happen. It is a slippery slope when you're like you do it one day and you do it the next day. You do it the next day. You're like, I don't give a fuck about this dieting shit. Doesn't fucking work.

Fuck this. Just don't let it be a slippery slope. Yeah, I've been getting a kick out of like, well, at first it started with like when I noticed it was with the like the fat free cheese. There you go. People were roasting you. It's like, come on, bro. Why are you eating fat free cheese. There you go. We're roasting. It's like, come on, bro.

Why are you eating fat free cheese? But then funny ass comments, but here's the thing though. Like I would have somebody like if I was full fat cheese, come on, bro. Why are you eating full fat cheese? It's like fuck.

If I, when I post a picture of bread, come on, bro. Why are you eating bread? When I go full carnivore, bro, seriously,

you're going, you're only eat meat. Come on, bro. Something the something the same i'm like there's somebody for every fucking thing to just come out and be like come on bro like two percent milk are you sure come on bro full milk fuck dude seriously come on bro you're wasting calories oh my god but yeah like diet soda come on bro really you're gonna put those chemicals in your body i've seen that comment you're having a regular coke what the fuck's wrong with you fuck that coke zero guys let andrew live his fucking life that's what i was telling russell i'm like dude this is why i fucking hate social media because like like i don't post shit because there's always somebody

that's like a fucking internet genius and i'm like dude and i'm nobody on like social media but they always come out i'm just like fuck all you but we love you at the same time no i absolutely do because there are some like people that i actually like know and like interact and like they they like talk to my wife too like they like follow everybody and it's like really cool but it's the ones that don't follow me that like come out of nowhere and i'm just like like you had Like, you had to seek me out. Like, I'm not cool with that. You able to get all your shit in

lately in SEMA? Jiu-jitsu. You've been doing all kinds of weird moves on the turf here at Super Training. We've been rubbing

our asses and our backs and our, we've been humping all the equipment at the gym. Have you even had time to get everything in

that you need to get in? Do you feel like? Yeah. Nice. How are you juggling it? You have like – you have specific days that you kind of devote to jiu-jitsu or specific times. Like how does it – do you just have to go to jiu-jitsu later in the day or – I get in jiu-jitsu as much as I literally can. So it's like usually four times a week.

This week is probably also going to be four or five. And then I'm able to luckily, since the podcast is connected to the gym, either before podcast or after podcast, I do the stuff I need to do. My training is more so focused on, again, maintaining muscle, but I'm trying to be able to do a lot of really wild calisthenic type stuff. So I do a lot of mobility work. I do a lot of body weight work. And I think it's really cool how these things that some would look at as like simple movements, some of the things that you'll see from guys like Ido Portal, they're very fatiguing when you've never done them before.

Just like somebody who goes into jujitsu and has never done any of those movements. So it wrecks them. It's the same. That's the same way I feel right now doing a lot of this bodyweight stuff because it's like, I don't do this. Even though I do a lot of jiu-jitsu, these are just weird positions for me to get to. Single leg stuff,

it's wild. I dig it because I'm getting better at it slowly over time. I already see the benefit that it has in terms of my movement on the mats. Some stuff that we do isn't really like – doesn't require much energy like when you do like foam rolling or you're doing like myofascial release. It doesn't really require much muscle or anything like that. But if you're working on mobility work, you know, and the way I've been working on mobility work is normally it's been simultaneous in a circuit with something else. For example, I might do like a Jefferson deadlift mixed in with some slant board squats,

mixed in with some dumbbell bench press or something. I got two movements where I'm kind of working on range of motion and moving around a little bit more than maybe than I have been in the past. And then I have another range of motion that is, I don't know, just kind of a bro movement, getting a pump. So I'm kind of working in everything. But I think something else that's really helpful is that the three of us, when we come to Slingshot World headquarters every day uh we spend a lot of time together like we're in the gym together we don't always really actually i don't even know if the three of us have really ever officially worked out together maybe a handful of times maybe times a couple times right um so it's not like we're like working out together but we're in the gym together uh we're

getting our steps in together and obviously when we're podcasting we're like working out together, but we're in the gym together. We're getting our steps in together. And obviously when we're podcasting, we're podcasting together. So we're really fortunate in a sense that a lot of the stuff that we want to do for the day is knocked out. Then for you, you have jujitsu. Andrew has his home life with having an infant, which is infinitely, nearly impossible. And I've been working on running. I know Andrew also works out at home a lot, right? Yeah.

So, like, I don't know. Every once in a while I will just kind of get a hair up my ass, as I think that's the term. A hair up your ass? A hair up my ass, yeah. That's cool. And I'll just be like, dude, I want to get on a step mill. Like, I just want to do some cardio.

I even looked at, like, dude, I want to get on a step mill. I want to do some cardio. I even looked at possibly purchasing one. So I'm checking out Facebook and Craigslist and stuff for a used one. And then it comes and goes. This time around, it came and I'm like, you know what? Let me just see what it costs to join a gym down the street. I looked and I was like, wait, what? Like under 200 bucks for an entire year? I was like, is that?

Seriously? Is that correct? And yeah, it was $180 for an entire year. Wow. And so I'm like, even if I just walk in and just do the step mill, that is definitely going to pay for itself. So I have another like place that I can work out,

and they just happen to have the free motion dual cable cross machine where I do all of my movements, and I'm like, this is fucking awesome. I can be as loud as the weights will be. I don't grunt. I don't yell, especially in a commercial gym like that. But at home, I can't grunt I don't yell especially in a like commercial gym like that but like at home like I can't really go too nuts in the morning because if I wake up my son it kind of like it just day starts sets the tone for the day because it's like well he didn't get his sleep so

he's gonna be grouchy and it's just like there's a domino effect of things I can kind of mess everything up so like you know when I like if I'm doing like a you know cable press or something and it's like I have to gently put the weight down i can't like just like let it slam so it's tough but you ever tried hot boxing his ass what no i haven't but uh so yeah so i i have i... Just go fart in his room. Is that what you're talking about? I'm like, what is this? Nah, just hot boxing. No. God, no.

Let the air get to him. I'll fuck with you. Don't do that to your child. He'll wake up so hungry. That kid eats so much. Yeah, everybody, he was joking. It's a joke. So I got my home gym where I have everything I need.

Got a treadmill. It's pretty good. I now have a commercial gym. And then because I'm in Elk Grove, so I'm really close with Charlie Zamora, I could hit him up and go to damn near any gym. There's one called Reset Fitness. Fuck, I feel so bad. Dude's so cool.

It's like this dude, he bought this gym, and it has like every piece of equipment you could think of. Oh, nice. Reset Rich on Instagram. It's called Reset Fitness. It's like a nice hidden warehouse gym. It's so nice. But like we can go there like 5, 4 a.m. in the morning, whatever.

Rich Gonzalez? Yeah. Dude's super cool. He's getting strong too. So if you're in Elk Grove, I highly recommend that gym because it has – do they have racks on racks on racks? Those guys jacked. Yeah. And that's a really dope gym too.

So that's another place that I can go train. But then, of course, we have here. So it's like no matter what, I'm surrounded by fitness-minded people. My wife's usually going to be up training about the same time I am. And then I'm making it as impossible to miss exercise every day that's really that's really what my goal was and then with like this new commercial gym it's like i just have to wait for somebody to get off the cable machine because there's two movements sorry two maybe three muscle groups that people work on this machine that can do your you can work your whole body on but if

somebody sets up on that cable machine, they're going to do chest flies or they're going to do bicep curls. And on the rare occasion, somebody's going to grab it and do a tricep extension. I don't want to hate on anybody because that's not what we do, but they're underutilizing the cable cross. It's the most versatile piece of equipment and it's the most underused. Yeah. You guys should check out Doug's book. He has a lot of cable cross stuff.

So that's what I do. I do all of the break 20 movements with, you know, I just need a bench and the free motion cable machine. They're very expensive. So that's going to be like probably the next purchase though. Eventually. That's cool. You're still getting it all in though. Yeah.

Yeah. Everything. So each day is like, it's not just like a leg day or like upper body day. It's like almost a full body. Yeah. So it's like non-opposing muscle groups. That's what it is. And each workout takes me, I don't know, maybe, maybe an hour, but I will also include like

20 minutes of cardio in there and that's been really good because when you're uh when your kid wakes up um does he like wind up like i don't know how like how old is he right now so he's one and a half yeah when he like wakes up if he wakes up crying does he wake up crying once in a while he will yeah not every time do you like the wind-up cry where it kind of starts out kind of soft and it just goes like sounds like sirens coming your way yeah yeah so it's funny like we're saying he's so advanced that his terrible twos have hit early so he yeah it's been we're learning man i'm learning as a parent but yeah let's just put him outside oh man he won't put on shoes or anything which is good but like But I got him some very minimalist sandals.

I'm like, dude, I just need something your feet are going to cook out here in the sun. You don't want them. I'm like, all right, I guess. I got him some Vivo barefoot shoes. They come in on Monday, so hopefully those work. But yeah, no, when he wakes up, it's just like the, hey, I'm awake. Hey. Hey.

And then, like, oh, shit, he's up. But for the most part, when he doesn't cry, he will get himself out of bed. Like, he'll crawl out and, like, just risk it all and just, like, jump down. Yeah. Because it's still pretty high for him. And then he'll just walk in the room rubbing his eyes. Like, dude, that's crazy. You're one and a half years old and you're doing that.

He's, like, in a crib kind of thing? No, he's just on our bed. Oh, okay. He just sneaks on out of there? Yeah, he's on our eight sleep mattress, just kicking it all by himself. He's like, I don't want to sleep on some jank mattress. No, no. He needs the top of the line. We've tried and he's just like, nope, not good enough.

One thing that I think real quick that everybody can add in that's listening, because Andrew, you notice that you'll take the rack in the gym, or not the rack, good enough one thing that i think real quick that everybody can add in that's listening because uh andrew you notice that you know you'll take the rack in the gym or not the rack but the cable machine in the gym and it has these prongs and when you hit your glute minimus on it which is this this right here right and you do also some stuff with your lower back you immediately feel good and what i want to quickly want to say is like all of us every single day we're smashing especially after chris kadowski came here oh yeah because we can feel how much of a difference it makes for our performance. And one thing that happens is when people start doing that type of stuff, and again, I suggest you guys grab Chris's book.

They're on Amazon, Chris Kodowski. He shows you what you should be doing. Lower back Bible or whatever is the first one you should get. you should be doing. Lower back Bible or whatever is the first one you should get. But every day, this is a habit you should have to, you know, smash different parts of your body with something hard, the SoRite, the Supernova from Kelly Sturette, something. But that's something that we're all doing every day because it makes a difference. Yeah. How do people know what part of their body they need to smash? I think, I'll tell you about that I think that especially like going over Chris's book for most people ends up being hamstrings is a rough part glutes is a rough part but if you're ever smashing

against something and you feel like oh that's a that's a rough spot explore I think we made the joke of like oh you know I'm exploring my body again. Like if you find tough spots, go over that because even Chris worked on Mark and he's, he relieved some adhesions, which physical therapists still say you can't get rid of people's adhesions. But Chris literally did that for you and he's done that for many people. But you can get rid of adhesions in your own body if you smash across those areas enough. So hamstrings, glutes, quads, it looks weird, but it will make a difference. I think you'll just know a lot of times. You'll just feel it.

And there's certain areas that are going to be more tender than others. And if you check on the other side and there's really not much there, that's how you kind of also know that you probably stumbled upon a problem area. And then you want to try to go over that area several times. You want to try to breathe through it. And also, if possible, if you can move around a little bit and you can kind of like active release the area a little bit, you'll be able to get into the muscle better when the muscle is shortened

than you will be when it's at length. So you want to shorten the muscle, not contract it, but shorten it a little bit, dig in hard, and then extend the, let's say you're digging into your bicep. So you dig into your bicep with, let's say, like a lacrosse ball, okay? You kind of bring the arm up. It's not really flexed. And as that lacrosse ball is sitting in there, then you're going to kind of lengthen and you want to continue to do that.

And over a period of time, you'll be like, Oh, that shit feels better. And sometimes you literally feel a little bit better right there on the spot. Other times, like whatever you have going on, it might be something that's been there for a while.

Yeah. Before, like, I guess I would say it feels almost like a, like a bruise under the skin. It's kind of like, so like when you're rolling on something and you do have a visible bruise, when you touch it, you're just like, oh, that hurts. And then you avoid it. So that's kind of what I used to do also in like foam rolling.

I was like, oh, that actually hurts. Maybe I shouldn't mess with that because obviously that's hurt. But now when I do find something, I'll just be like, oh, let's see how much further I can lean into this. Yeah. And see how much I can breathe through it and work through it. Yeah. Explore on top of it. And, you know, obviously if it's extremely painful, be slow, be careful.

But, you know, these spots are probably spots that are going to allow you to get a bit better movement. Something that is usually really rough for people is the hip flexors. When you take the Kelly Sturette Supernova or any of these, like a lacrosse ball, you can get that cheap on Amazon and you start rolling on top of your hip flexors, that will get to you. Have you seen the Boner Project that's going on with Sturette? No, I have not.

What is the boner project kelly stirret our boy god uh with ready state that's the name of his brand ready state uh as people know he has an app and helps millions of people around the globe and he has been for a long time uh helping people with their mobility and helping people get like unstuck and kelly strrett's been talking about like myofascial release type stuff for a very, very long time. He's been talking about mobility. Back in the day, he had mobility WOD. He would do mobility WOD certifications for CrossFit and stuff.

Anyway, you guys know who the fuck I'm talking about. He's been on the show many, many times. Well, Kelly has this new project he's working on helping people not just get, I guess, more boners, but to be able to hold on to their boners a little bit. Let's go, Kelly! A little bit longer. Yes.

Thank you so much, Mr. Ster. And I wrote on one of the things. I was like, penis pumps work really good, too. Guys, but, I mean, in truth, this is to help with blood flow because a lot of people are super tight through maybe kind of like, I guess maybe you'd say from the sternum down to like the thighs, like in that area, the people are really sensitive. I know for myself, when I start digging into the stomach and digging in with the pso right and doing some of that stuff in the psoas, it's really tight.

But what Sturette is pointing to here is interesting. It's not just talking about the stomach and not just talking about the psoas, it's talking about the adductors as well. Yeah. There's, there's a lot of areas that are super tight that don't, you, you won't be able to get blood flow to that area as efficiently if you're really rigid. But one thing, and we were just talking about this in the gym is not only will, again, smashing a lot of these areas, help you guys out. But as we've been digging into breathing and as, as we've been breathing better and learning how to improve that, that will make a big difference on your sexual function too. Because you think about, first off, let's say an individual has a tendency to breathe through

their mouth. Okay. Then now these are shallow breaths. You're not getting in any nitric oxide, which does help with a lot of those aspects. Ladies do not hook up with mouth breathers. Yeah. It's going to be a rough life for you, I think. Don't put them down like that, Mark. Let's try to help those mouth breathers breathe through their nose and have better dicks. Okay. Right? Okay, good point.

Breathe through your nose, guys. Breathe through your nose. But one thing I learned is when you're trying to keep your stomach flat and you're breathing, typically what happens is you're flexing your abs so that your stomach's flat, right? And when you start breathing, your breaths naturally end up being more shallow because you're breathing and you're not breathing into your diaphragm. I'm not saying that you need to go like that and belly breathe. But what happens is when you're so focused on keeping your stomach flat,

your breaths are more shallow. You're not letting your diaphragm expand and constrict. So what happens with a lot of people is their breathing will naturally start, even through their nose, it will end up up here so that their stomach doesn't protrude. But if you stop fighting that and be okay with just letting your stomach relax a little bit, you're going to be able to take bigger, deeper breaths into your diaphragm with your nose. And if you're able to breathe better, you'll move better. You won't be as constricted. That's another thing that will just add a little bit extra to your movement, your activity, all of that. So we're going to be getting more people that are experts on this, on the podcast, because there are things that we've said,

like me taping your mouth and all these other things that people are like, that's bullshit. That's bro science. It's not bro science. A lot of this is – it's huge. I mean sometimes you – maybe some of the people listening may have experienced an injury like this before. I don't know if any of you guys had an injury that like really negatively impacts your breathing. Obviously like a broken rib and stuff like that, it's going to massively impact your breathing, right? But I've had injuries where they're just like tweaks, just from doing like good mornings and various exercises. I'll have a tweak and it's actually kind of more like in my

upper back. And when I go to breathe, I kind of like I can't get that second breath that you're sometimes looking for when you're training. And so, so many things can compromise your breathing. And I think throughout our day, if you can pay attention to your body, not just your breath, but pay attention to your body and your breath, and you'll kind of be watching TV and you'll be like, why am I making a fist right now? Like, is there, is somebody coming into the room threatening me right now? Like, am I about to get into a fight? Like, what am I doing? You might notice that sometimes just when you're talking to somebody. You might be, I notice it sometimes we're on the podcast.

I have some, we got somebody on the show and I'm excited and anxious. And I'm just like, what? Fuck, dude. Why don't I just, I'm trying to relax that a little bit. And we've talked before about relaxing the eyes. You know, what a really awesome cue that is to relax your eyes, relax your mouth when you're running, when you're doing various things. It could be really easy to have that sun kind of beating down on you.

And as you're going, you're like gritting your teeth and you're making all these crazy faces. But you also might want to try to think, oh, should I should, I should, like, how is the rest of that registering in my body? Yeah. It's if I'm gritting my teeth, then the body's probably like, hey, we're, we're kind of in like a fight mode right now. And maybe you can handle it in a different way and maybe you can do it more smooth. Yeah.

For all of you that are listening, I just want to say, because I mean, there's so much more when it comes to this and so many applications of breathing through your nose and learning how to breathe slowly and actually learning how to breathe less there there's so much to it but my only thing i want to say is don't underestimate it because as we're saying this there are some people who are already like oh fuck that it's like it's not the way you breathe doesn't make that much of a difference but it can make a difference on your stress it can make a difference on the way you sleep it can make a difference on your appetite um your performance how long you'll be able to last doing different things. It makes a difference in so many areas. And it's the one of those things that you're doing automatically every single day. more about this but just understand like this nasal breathing shit is is free for you to fix and when you do fix it and you really start breathing better and more efficiently you will

feel so much better brian mckenzie believes in it so much i mean brian mckenzie is uh big time in the endurance world people go to him a lot for uh being able to run ultras and a lot of crossfitters and various people over the years have gone to him. And he thinks like just don't do anything unless you can do it nasal breathing. He thinks like almost all of your training, not all of your training, but a large majority of your training he believes should be done in and out of the nose. And if you think about when we sit here and talk about lifting, we share the same notion. Like if you can't do it for 10 reps, when you're starting out, when you're new, can't do it for 10 reps and you can't perform the reps to where we all can agree. Like, yeah, those are reps. Those are real reps. Can't, if you can't do them, uh, on broken, then there's really no reason to start to get into heavier weights. And then even when you

do get into heavier weights, if you're supposed to do a three by three or five by five, all those reps, all those sets, week in and week out, doesn't matter what week you're in or how long you've been doing it for, they should look really, really good. Can there be a little wiggle room for there to be a small variation? I think, I think you kind of have to have that just because you may not always know the exact weight to have on there. And from a mental perspective, sometimes you need to push to certain weights and have certain weights on the bar, uh, just for you to get over the three plates or the four plates type thing. And then, so on the aspect of going back to like nasal breathing or just breathing in general, you know, we hear a lot of people with like,

you know, stress, anxiety, and that sort of thing. And this really does help alleviate a lot of that. I'm not going to say like, oh, this is going to cure depression or anything like that. But like when it comes to pressure situations where you do feel a little bit anxious if you're breathing through your mouth and you're putting yourself in that fight or flight state like it really does help to just calm everything down when you're breathing through your nose kind of forcing yourself to breathe slowly um i've noticed that it is it it fucking helps a lot a lot a lot and this is the thing to think about. It's like many people have the habit over time of breathing through their mouth all the time.

And we know that breathing through the mouth, first off, it sets off that sympathetic nervous system, that fight or flight. So like you might be feeling kind of calm, but your breathing is like this. And you're setting yourself up to be set off by something. It's like, if something comes towards you or something stressful hits you, you're going to be more on edge than relaxed about it. I think that's partially like one of the reasons why like it's, it's, it's super easy to stay chill. Like I just, I'm chill like all the time. Um, but it's because like i'm always my breathing's always chill and even when i shouldn't be it's problematic sometimes even

when i probably should be kind of pissed i'm still pretty fucking chill but i think it's because my breathing's always pretty fucking relaxed other than maybe when i do the wim hof stuff you know and when i do the wim hof, I can feel like you breathe through the mouth and you take in those big breaths so that you can get a bit hyped up. You know what I mean? So that the nasal breathing aspect with all the things we know that stress can do negatively, if this is something that can help you just get out of that or become more relaxed and chill out a bit, but it's something you're doing 24-7, including when you sleep, that's why we're big on nasal breathing when you sleep. It will make a big difference for your life in the long run.

This is something that for some people, especially if you have sleep apnea, especially if you have a problem snoring, this will take time to fix. And we're going to find more solutions for all of you. I think we just already posted that episode where Mark talked about the different things he's done for his sleep apnea. But as we're helping you guys figure this out, that puzzle, for those of you that snore and do have sleep apnea, when you do get that figured out, you will feel so much better. It's literally, oh, it is a, it is a life hack because a lot of the population does have that problem. You'll find it rare, uh, that when you take a good breath in and out of the nose that it won't be useful. Like it would, there's a, be a rare situation. If you're like

sprinting or something, then there's, you know, um then there's certain situations where you got to kind of do what you got to do. You're in a real accident or disastrous thing. Then maybe your body just reacts a particular way. However, again, it's a sign that your heart rate is coming back down. Like you regained your breath from whatever it is that you were doing previously. Like you regained your breath from whatever it is that you were doing previously. And if somebody – you get stressful news, stressful information via like a text. You're having a day where like multiple things are kind of going on.

I would just always suggest the same thing I always suggest, which is to go outside, go on a walk, breathe in and out of your nose. If you have any time to like distance yourself from something, time and distance are, they heal a lot of things. Time heals all wounds, they say, right? So if you could take a moment and breathe, I just found it really useful. I'm not really a stressed out person per se anyway. But in learning a lot of this nasal breathing stuff over the last few years, I will kind of notice, oh, like you're a little tense. Like, what is this? When he had James Smith on the podcast, he talked a lot about how to think about your thoughts. And then once there's like a first thought, which sometimes we don't always have control over that. Like you're the first thought that you have sometimes is halfway random because of a TV show or something weird that you saw. So it's from experiences. And sometimes it's literally just you and your

character. And I think that can be like trained and maneuvered over periods of time, but it kind of just is who you are. Um, but from that point, you get to think about the thought that you had and you get to take a beat on it and you can – and the moment that you're about to say, wow, this really sucks. Holy shit. I can't believe it. I can't believe he said that. I can't believe she did that.

I can't believe she's breaking up with me. I can't believe this happened. You have can't believe she did that. I can't believe she's breaking up with me. I can't believe this happened. You have an opportunity to think about it a little bit more and say to yourself maybe, I wonder what led up to this. I wonder why that – I wonder if you put yourself in the other person's shoes. I wonder why they thought that rather than you sitting there being like, why me? And then you're mad. Then you're kind of back and forth. So I don't know.

These are just things that have been really useful for me. And even just through breathing and just taking a beat and taking a second, putting things on pause for a moment, it's been really helpful. And I understand there's people that are a little more emotional and a little bit more reactionary. But I believe we all kind of have a choice in that moment of what we're going to do, how we're going to react to it. And for those of you that are like, oh, I have allergies or my nose is stuffed before I go to sleep, look up the Buteckyo, B-U-T-E-K-Y-O, nose clearing technique. You can look that up on YouTube. It's like a five-minute video.

It takes you through a small exercise to clear up your nose. So because a lot of people are like, oh, I can't breathe through my nose because it's stuffed, et cetera. One thing to remember is if you have a tendency to breathe through your mouth for long periods of time, literally the little muscles in your nose will atrophy. It's going to become harder to breathe through your nose since you're not using it as much. So it's going to take you some work to reverse everything that's gone on. Over time, your nostrils will increase. Your breathing will become easier through there and then it'll just become what you do. It's going to take time, but it's a very,

it's a, it's a issue to fix that can be free as long as you just practice it and keep it in mind through your day i think try it and you're lifting too next time you go to work out you know try it on a couple sets of seated rows on you don't have to do it the whole workout but just adopt it and have it be uh some part of your workout where you're you're working on some of that nasal breathing i've introduced it into running and when i when a run particularly is set so where i'm like i'm only nasal breathing it's gonna be a much slower run it's gonna be but i'm still pushing myself on that run because i want to see how i'm going to recover i want to see if i push myself harder if i can still recover and i can still just kind of stay within nasal breath. But the first, or in and out of the nose, the first few times I tried it,

I had to stop. I had to just, I was either like, you need to either stop running and you need to walk for a little bit and continue the nasal breathing, uh, or you need to just switch your breathing up. So I've done both during training, uh, but I try to push it. And two days ago, I did like a 25 minute run or so. And I was like, this will just all be nasal breathing. And it was a great recovery workout. I did not run very fast. And then this morning I ran and I got another PR in this loop that I run. i think i cut this down by like 12 minutes since i first started a lot of it i got to contribute to nasal breathing so it's it's fucking working and if you try it within a workout whatever style of workouts that you do you will find that that

workout will be it will feel more like a recovery workout because you might have to slow down in between sets you might need time like because you're probably not used to it. So you might need two minutes, three minutes to calm back down to do another set so you can just stay breathing in and out of the nose. And remember, guys, the reason for that is because when you're breathing through the nose versus the mouth, you're breathing through the mouth. You do not produce nitric oxide. You produce nitric oxide when you breathe through your nose. That'll help literally oxygen get better to your muscle tissues in a better way, in a faster way, more efficiently. So you're not, that's not happening when you're, that's not happening when you're breathing through the

mouth. It only happens when you breathe through the nose. So we're not joking when we say like the nose was really made for breathing. It's not like you can never breathe through your mouth, but a vast majority of your breathing, especially when you're sleeping needs to be through your nose. And think about the compounding effect, right? You're now breathing through your nose at night. You're not breathing through your nose thing or a lot of your workouts.

It now becomes a majority of the way you breathe. The compound effect of your recovery and everything else. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. You breathe out a lot when you're talking. I mean, the whole show we're breathing out of our mouth, you know. So it's not like you're not getting any of that. And it's not like if you're sprinting or doing high-level jiu-jitsu

or you start lifting crazy weights. I mean, it's a good idea when you start getting some heavy weights on your back to probably blow the air out the way that you're used to. You know, you don't need to change any of that. But some of the more mild stuff that you're doing, work on the nasal breathing. Andrew, want to take us on out of here? Sure thing. Thank you, everybody, for checking out today's episode.

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