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Reis Paluso

I'm a breath specialist and the breath coach for the San Diego Padres. I write about what breathing reveals about the way you handle pressure, and what to do once you can see it.

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I teach breathing and I was doing it wrong

Heyo Reader, I have spent countless hours consciously breathing in as many ways as I can think of, from cyclical hyperventilation to all of the popular patterns like 4-7-8, coherent breathing, physiological sigh - the list goes on. I’ve also explored making up my own patterns, changing pathways, adding holds in weird places, and losing myself in the intuitive, playful flow the breath provides. From all this practice, you might assume I was highly efficient, had great mechanics, could control...

On Saturday, I was in the Padres clubhouse, talking with the team’s acupuncture and massage therapist, Atsushi, while he worked on Jackson Merrill’s diaphragm. Now that I mention it…of course…it only makes sense that I sat there watching his approach to working on a muscle I hold near and dear. I was loving it. Jackson, on the other hand, was not, to say the least. Lol. Anyway, I asked Merrill if he ever used AI to support his game. He looked at me like I was crazy and laughed. “Nope.”...