Michael Boyle | Strength and Conditioning and How It Evolves | Oxygen Advantage® Podcast

“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. It is a method he still uses to this day.
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.
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[@KortalaulPodcast]

My pleasure, gentlemen! Lovely chat!

[@OxygenAdvantage]

Thanks so much Peter, It was a great episode of the podcast. Almost as good as yours. : ) Michael is a very well informed professional who has for decades been helping athletes at the highest level to achieve greatness. Of course, a martial artist of your level knows all about achieving greatness. : ) Have a great day. Kind regards, Ronan

[@ladonnabellavillalobos9627]

Well, since no one else is here I am glad I stayed. I’ve been listening to Andrew Huberman about this nasal breathing and I know I’ve been a mouth breather since I could ever remember and I hold my breath when I’m doing some thing like heavy, lifting or strenuous work or when I get stressed out, I hold my breath, but I don’t wanna stay on the oxygen because I feel like I’ll never breathe right like this but taping my mouth. It wouldn’t do any good I would take it off I know in my sleep.

[@assal_youssef]

thank you Oxygen Advantage

[@danielholland8731]

Awesome, i enjoyed the collab. Curry is a great example of using breathing techniques. I think it a super advantage in basketball and deserves more attention, i hope coming soon.

[@OxygenAdvantage]

Thanks Daniel, OA techniques like our high altitude simulation are hugely beneficial for improving performance. Kind regards, Ronan

[@ladonnabellavillalobos9627]

I just wanted to say hello, I am new to your channel, I have been on oxygen since 2018 when I was in the hospital for three months with Covid or whatever it was, not only did I end up on oxygen I ended up having diabetes they were giving me insulin shots in my stomach every day steroids I don’t know what all they were giving me but I came out and I end up playing 200 pounds more I’ve lost almost all of that. I have sleep apnea now and they want me on oxygen 24/7.

[@OxygenAdvantage]

Hi Ladonna, In your situation, starting slow is the best way to go. We want to decrease your body's sensitivity to carbon dioxide to improve oxygen uptake in the blood. The best way to start is with a very simple light breathing exercise. Sit upright with you hands on your chest and tummy. Close your mouth and breathe only through the nose. As you breathe in, feel your stomach rise and fall. With nasal breathing there should be little to no movement of your chest. Slow your breathing until you can barely feel air entering your nose, it should be so silent that your nasal hairs barely move. You are trying to create an 'air hunger'. If you feel stressed or lose control of your breathing, the air hunger is too strong, so take a rest. After 20-30 seconds, start again. Do this for about 4 minutes.

[@ladonnabellavillalobos9627]

I think I’m on the wrong channel. I thought this was to improve your oxygen levels, but it’s obvious I’m not going out for any sports at the moment I might as well stay and listen to the whole video, though.

[@kylebates416]

Our O2 levels are fixed. You can't onboard more O2. What you can do is train apnea that increases your tolerance of CO2. Which collaborates with your O2 to optimize onboarding/offloading at the cellular level. Health, calmness, longevity, etc.

[@ivanchew972]

Who's the fighter you working with?

[@OxygenAdvantage]

Hi @ivanchew972 A great Irish boxing champ and a gent. instagram.com/p/CmHVQA5AuXn/ Regards, Ronan