Are You a Mouth Breather?: If So… STOP! Breathe Through Your Nose! (Heroic +1 #1,793)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic one and our last few plus ones. Check them out in the app. We've been having fun taking a quick tour through some of my heroic target swipes. We started with the dozen I hit before I even start my day. Then we focused on a couple weird ones. I'm in bed for nine to 10 hours like a world class athlete. Target swipe. I'm in the best shape of my life. I feel heroically energized, confident mind affirmation. Target swipes. I have fun going to bed by 9pm that's like me. I sleep with tape and I sleep in the Citadel and I love starting my day with early a.m. sunlight. Those are all from my energy protocol. Then some heroic love targets I hit first thing in the morning. I begin the day with a smile. I appreciate my life. I make my bed. I send my wifey a love note. Target swipe. Target swipe. Target swipe. Target swipe. That's like me. Now I want to spend just a moment longer talking about your breathing as it relates to peak performance. Quick context. We've been blessed to work with a lot of elite performers over the years and I've been having fun connecting with a lot more super elite performers over the last several months. One of the groups of elite performers with whom I have the most fun connecting athletic coaches. It's always super fun to chat with people who are all in about how to turn up the heat and activate their and their team's heroic potential. Now, one of the small but huge things I like to discuss when we strategize breathing. It pains me when I watch athletes panting through their mouths. If I personally owned and or ran a sports organization, the very first thing I'd have everyone do is right after we set them up on the heroic app, of course is train their breathing. Of course we dominate all the big and marginal gains on all the fundamentals. Eating, moving, sleeping, breathing. Focusing as we help the team and the team behind the team make their prior best their new baseline as we forged a culture of organizational excellence. But breathing is one of those things that no one seems to be prioritizing. It's a huge potential competitive edge. As I typed that out, I was thinking of a text exchange with a new friend of mine who happens to be the head football coach of one of the premier programs in the country. His response after I shared breathing 101 it was an awesome emoji of a dude with an exploding head. Check it out. In that class I talk about 10 big ideas we need to know, including the competitive performance edge that training our breathing would create. In that context, I share a story about the ancient Spartan warriors. Apparently they would pour a little water in their young warriors mouths, then have them run something like 10 miles at pace. Then they would spit that water out of their mouths at the end of the run. Note. That's one heck of a way to force you to breathe through your nose. And that's today's post war. Know this. We evolved to breathe through our noses, not our mouths. In short, when we breathe through our mouths all day, every day, we trigger an incessant fight or flight response while disrupting the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in our blood, which limits the amount of oxygen that actually gets out of our hemoglobin and into our cells, which significantly diminishes our well being and athletic performance. So take a deep breath with me now. In through your nose, down into your belly, working out the most underutilized and underappreciated muscle in your body or diaphragm back out through your nose, exhaling slightly longer than your inhale. Let's do it right now. It's always amazing to me what one single breath can do. Flip the switch with a nice deep, calming, yet energizing breath like that all day, every day. Especially between the big plays of your games as you activate your heroic potential and take your calm confidence and energized tranquility to the next next level. Today.