The Zen Protocol with Nicolò Dominick

The Zen Protocol with Nicolò Dominick

The Zen Protocol with author Nicolò Dominick is an exploration of melding ancient esoteric mental practices with cutting-edge research to unleash the Optimum Self. The show delves into Weightless, Mental Resilience, Physical Fitness, Nutrition, Recovery, and Tribe. In probing the underpinnings of human potential each week, Nicolò chats with entrepreneurs, athletes, sports psychologists, genetic researchers and yogis. Always searching for those raw vulnerable moments where emotion eclipses restraint and reason, as these are the signposts on the Path to transformation.

Episodes

November 3, 2023 10 mins

Just 10 minutes a day will improve stress, focus and aid workout recovery.

Try this 6 Second Exercise and also the 5.5 Second Exercise to see which you find more relaxing. I find the 6 second better for my body, but it just depends on the nervous system. 

Hit me with questions or comments. 

From the National Library of Medicine: 

"Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVBFB) or resonance breathing is breathing at a slow rate, usuall...

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Just 10 minutes a day will improve stress, focus and aid workout recovery.

Try this 6 Second Exercise and also the 5.5 Second Exercise to see which you find more relaxing. I find the 6 second better for my body, but it just depends on the nervous system. 

Hit me with questions or comments. 

From the National Library of Medicine: 

"Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVBFB) or resonance breathing is breathing at a slow rate, usuall...

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Will Brooks is jacked and he's done it all with a vegan diet. WIll not only trains jiu jitsu, he also coaches clients helps them burn fat & build muscle on a vegan program. 

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As the first American to win both ADCC and a World Championship in the gi, Robert Drysdale's credentials are impecable. 

The history major has now trained his focus on chronicling the evolutionary period of grappling from its arrival in Brazil to the present, with his new book: The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization...

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Nicole is a culinary maestro & co-author of the book The Vegan Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: 75 Satisfying High Fat, Low Carb, Dairy Free Recipes. This book is incredible because it addresses two critical pillars of nutrition--Insulin Resistance & Gut Biome.

The problem is that I'm often asked by clients, 'But what do I eat, what do I eat?'

Ask no more!

The 75 recipes in Nicole's book are quick and easy with relatively few ingredients. 

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May 7, 2023 51 mins

Internal Memes spread through society like viral social-media memes. They embed in our subconscious and limit our performance by creating inner conflict and irrational self-judgement, which saps our focus and energy, without us even realizing it! Even worse, they create distrust of the self, which erodes our confidence. How do we locate and untangle these memes? What does David Deutsch, the British physicist, say about these memes?...

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April 25, 2023 61 mins

The Mind is a Super Computer... Nick sits with Power-Coach Chrissy Powers discussing subconcious algorithms, reverse engineering the brain and unlocking our highest selves 

 

 

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Lead singer of the Dirty Heads & Nick talk the use of ceremonial plant medicine as a means of uncovering subconcious performance blockages. 

 

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The Inner Blade Innagural Episode.

Back in the U.S. after a year in Sicily. On this episode we pick up where we left off over a year ago, with Studio 540 co-owner Jake Buracker. 

We talk about adventures in Europe, training in London, his coaching of UFC star Paddy the Baddy, plus the new reality TV  show 'MMA ACADEMY' filming now at Studio 540. 

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January 30, 2022 61 mins

Jake is a black belt under BJ Penn and a co-owner of the famed Studio 540 academy in Solana Beach, CA

 

Tooth & Jake talk about the unique origins of Studio 540 under Robert Zeps, and the ground-breaking Metamoris super fight competition that paved the way for FLograppling's WNO

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January 24, 2022 57 mins

European champion and Norway native  Tommy Langakaer joins the podcast to talk about recent changes in his training regimine to account for getting older Also learning jiu jitsu in a country with very few black belts, traveling to America and training at AOJ, and developing techniques like the Matrix.

Follow him on Instagram @langakerbjj and check out his instructional series at BJJFanatics

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January 14, 2022 77 mins
Chit chat with blackbelt brothers Gustavo and Alexis who just opened the Autore Jiu Jitsu gym in Los Angeles

Talking the early days at AOJ and ATOS and the new rising stars from AOJ plus the challenges of opening a gym

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Science bests motivation any day of the week. The key to life transformation is smart work, not hard work. 
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January 5, 2021 9 mins

Long term success lies in establishing concrete routines, which start with actions that lead to daily habits 

 

 

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December 29, 2020 23 mins

All of our training and diet are for NOTHING if we don't sleep and give ourselves downtime

Chillax kids... that is the way!

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December 23, 2020 21 mins

Consistency over intensity. Breaking down the principles for lifting, flexibility and cardio

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December 11, 2020 23 mins

Meal Plan to reduce digestive stress and curb insulin spikes, thereby placing the body into ketosis, a state in which the body burns fat for energy instead of carbohydrates

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Roadmap for the upcoming Mini-Season on Body Transformation (Get Off the F*** Couch!):

1. Urges to Binge: Nervous System Regulation

2. Gut Biome

3. Insulin Spikes 

4. Actual Diet

5. Exercise

6. Sleep & Recovery

7. Habits &  Routine

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February 8, 2020 84 mins

For this episode Tooth sits with Hywel Teague, Senior Editor for FloGrappling, and creator of the jiu jitsu series BJJ Hacks. A black belt, Hywel has travelled the world covering the jits scene for over a decade, spending time with and dissecting the brains of the greatest jiu jitsu athletes to ever live.

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January 4, 2020 66 mins

Tooth breaks down body transformation as it relates to diet, strength training and mindfulness. 

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