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Summary:
In this episode of the Stamina Lab podcast, founder Glen Lubbert speaks with JJ Ruescas, a human optimization strategist, which includes being an expert breathwork coach. Glen has attended many of his live breathwork sessions in Austin, TX and they are a transformative reset from the stress and emotional buildup that cumulatively drags us down in all parts of our life. He often walks away from these sessions with a level of feeling alive that he can’t believe comes from just breathing for 90 minutes. Even though you breathe every day, you probably don’t know how to breathe optimally for different phases of your day. How do you breathe to prepare for a big presentation? To focus and drop into a flow state? To have more energy? To physically perform at your best? To wind down and get ready for sleep? Or even to have better sex? Glen and JJ discuss all that and more. If you really want to perform at your best, then learning how to breathe is a key skill. JJ breaks it down for you in this episode –
Topics:
- The type of breathing that JJ believes we should strive for in our day to day
- The difference between mouth breathing, nose breathing, and belly (or diaphragmatic) breathing
- What to do when you notice your breath and the power of awareness
- The role that your nervous system plays in pairing with your breathing to either increase or decrease stress
- How breathwork can be effective for training, endurance, and recovery
- Carbon Dioxide and what you need to know in order to use it effectively for your overall performance
- How humming comes into play with breathing, regulating your nervous system, and even getting better sleep
- The role that social conditioning has in creating healthier breathwork and how JJ solves this in his client sessions
- The components of JJ’s Human OPS framework
- How JJ recommends that a beginner starts their breathwork journey
Episode Resources:
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
- The Oxygen Advantage by James McKeown
- The Breathing Cure by James McKeown
- Pranayama Breathing
- Bolt Score
- Dexa Scan
About JJ:
JJ Ruescas is driven by curiosity, a lifelong learner, and a promoter of Kaizen or continuous improvement. JJ started his career in the world of technology, where he led teams on several continents, guiding them to reach high performance.
One day he made a promise to himself: Not to finish a single day without learning something new for at least 10 minutes. Thanks to that, he immersed himself in topics such as Productivity, Neuroscience, Psychology, Optimal Breathing, Nutrition, Cloud Technologies, etc, etc, etc. In itself, he became his own guinea pig with the goal of personal optimization. Thanks to that, JJ is currently a High Performance and Results Coach for Startup Founders, and C-Level Executives of important companies in LATAM, and the US.
As part of his personal mission to Optimize every human, 1% every day, he created the platform Optimizing Me and the Podcast with the same name, where he regularly has conversations with leaders from different industries and areas of human development to extract insights that the audience benefits from.
He is also Stamina Lab’s breathwork and nervous system management coach.
