Wild Dopamine

4420 Drew Avenue South,Minneapolis MN 55410

09 July, 2022

Description

Wild Dopamine Video Today's society & culture runs on a go, go, go mentality leading to high stress environments for our mind, body and spirit. Weather it be work stress, relationship stress, family stress or just general stress, all stress hits us the same and prevents us from being our highest most empowered authentic self. We have found that breath, the one thing that every single human can control, is the tool to changing our state, controlling our environment and thus controlling our life. Understanding the power of the breath allows you to understand the power of your mind and a good way to tap into that breath is to pair it with movements, so you can feel and experience the profound benefits. With our Wild Dopamine workout we are integrating conscious, intentional, breath-work into the movements and between the movements. The focus is on the breath throughout the whole workout and we let the breath control the exercise instead of the exercise controlling the breath. For example, if you are unable to breath through your nose while doing burpees, instead of taxing your body and breathing through your mouth (which stresses us out), we scale back the rate of exertion so that you can breath through your nose and ensure quality, intentional movements vs just getting X number of reps knocked out! No ego, we go. Wild Dopamine workout: Starts with 4 min of up-regulating breath-work Workout consists of 6 movements, 5 rounds through 45 sec on of a movement followed by 1 min of breath-work Total Time = 52 min (22 min movement; 30 min breath-work)Post-workout we slow things down with 4 min of down-regulating breath-work Ends with gratitude circle where we share, connect and cultivate community. Extra Credit is some Sauna & Cold Tub after!There are two different breath-work patterns we use between movement (1 min of breath-work between each movement) Minimal breathing (reduced oxygen) - first 30 sec we are reducing our oxygen by breathing nose, slow and low. Since our heart rate is high after the movement, the goal is to slow the heart rate down and create a sensation of "air hunger" or the feeling of suffocation for the mind. By doing this we are creating adaptions for our mind to cope with stress better, but we are also increasing CO2 in our system which drops our blood PH levels and allows for blood flow/circulation to increase to our tissue and muscles. We are telling our brain and body that we can be more efficient with less oxygen! The second 30 secs we are doing a double-inhale through our nose to pool nitric oxidize and then extending the exhale through out mouth to cool down our system. Nitric Oxidize is included as a supplement or in pre-workout drinks but we are creating it on our own! Its most important function is vasodilation, meaning it relaxes the inner muscles of the blood vessels, causing them to widen and increase circulation, which makes us more efficient humans. Power Breathing (taking in as much oxygen as we can with breath holds on inhale) - During this minute we are trying to recover as fast as possible and flush our muscles, tissues and brain with as O2 as our system can process. This super-oxygenates our blood-flow and circulation, then we hold on the inhale (about 20 seconds into the 1 min) to engage our primary breathing muscles and put intention behind the next movement we are going to be getting into. Our objective with this breath-work integrated into movement is to highlight the importance of breath while training, recovering, increasing our longevity and but also tap into some physiological benefits that make us more efficient, happy, humans while reducing stress and maintaining a healthy body. Over the next few years we are going to see breath be at the forefront of just about everything so lets create a massive wave and start riding it as a community!