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You just finished your workout for the day and absolutely crushed it.

Your heart rate is up, breathing is heavy, sweat beads streaming down and glistening.

Go to a cryotherapy chamber?

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owner ofQuantum Performanceand works with the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets

Enter: deep breathing techniques.

Life includes cyclical periods of work and stimulation and periods of rest and recovery, he says.

The SNS is used for arousal, often called the fight or fligh system.

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This concept has become increasingly popular amongst groups like elite athletes and special forces to expedite recovery.

In the latters, the difference between that edge and not can literally be life and death.

The SNS system can become overused and throw off the work-to-rest balance, according to Dr. Barr.

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Is it measurable?

The most commonly used measure for SNS and PSNS activity isheart rate variability(HRV).

But they are not yet available to the public.

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Are there other benefits to deep breathing techniques?

That sounds pretty good to me!

Further, breathing sessions using an app have been shown toreduce stress and facilitate stress recoveryamongst working professionals.

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Mindfulness body scan, or 3. control (no intervention).

Repeat for six iterations for a total of two minutes.

There are three key phases of this technique.

The first phase is the accordion phase.

Your torso will be like an accordion thats expanding and retracting!

The second phase immediately follows the first.

Take three breaths to level five and fully exhale upon each.

On the last exhale, hold that bottom position.

This position is phase three.

Hold phase three (and if youre holding your breath there, it means you didnt fully exhale!)

until you feel a sort of air hunger and need to breathe back in.

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