How to End Every Workout for Best Improvement & Recovery | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

There's a lot of different things you can try . An easy example is just box breathing . So , and you can imagine box having four squares .

How to End Every Workout for Best Improvement & Recovery | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Uh This is the beautiful work of uh not me directly , although it took place in my lab . But as we know , it's the student of post ox , you really do the heavy lifting of um Doctor Mali uh Balon uh in my lab , a phenomenal researcher that showed that a short period of five minutes of box breathing of exactly the type that you described were uh cyclic signing . So two inhales followed by an extended exhale to lungs empty .

How to End Every Workout for Best Improvement & Recovery | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So if you just change from , you know , your maximum , get you up and get going music during the workout to a slower lower cadence that will help you kickstart . The idea of a similar note , you can also use what we call down regulation breathing . You could do them in conjunction or one or the other , whichever is up to you .

How to End Every Workout for Best Improvement & Recovery | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So I love the Brock breathing tool , post workout . Um And there's some other alternatives there too uh that I just mentioned , but I think people greatly underestimate the potency of breathing for shifting one's nervous system function away from stress or if one wants toward more alertness and stress .

How to End Every Workout for Best Improvement & Recovery | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

But as we know , it's the student of post ox , you really do the heavy lifting of um Doctor Mali uh Balon uh in my lab , a phenomenal researcher that showed that a short period of five minutes of box breathing of exactly the type that you described were uh cyclic signing . So two inhales followed by an extended exhale to lungs empty . Ideally , the inhales are done through the nose , the exhales are done uh through the mouth , although it could all be done through the nose um or the mouth for that matter , but probably nose , nose for inhale , inhale , mouth , for exhale or um uh in inhales , through the nose and , and exhale through the nose , cyclic sighing as we refer to it done for five minutes .