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September 3, 2025 8 mins
In this episode, health and human performance expert Miles Beccia delves into the crucial role of breathing in enhancing your workout performance.

Discover how proper inhalation and exhalation techniques can improve muscle function, boost neurological connections, and optimize strength building.

Join us as we explore the mind-muscle connection and learn how to harness the power of breath to elevate your exercise routine. Tune in to unlock the secrets of effective breathing for better results!

Takeaways
Focus on making sure that our core position is right on target.

Breathing is essential for muscle control and strength building.

Challenge the mind to maintain good body position during workouts.

Strength building requires consistent repetitions and proper technique.

Mitochondria are crucial for energy production in muscle cells.

Control the challenges in the mind to enhance workout performance.

Use various equipment like bands, dumbbells, or kettlebells for tricep exercises.

Maintaining a clean grip is important for effective strength training.

The arms may burn during intense workouts, but perseverance is key.
Consistent training over weeks leads to improved muscle strength.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, everyone, welcome back. And here you're gonna love this video.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here we're gonna have our triceps working here for the triceps,
and I'm gonna do one that I've always liked, and
you can use a band or dumbbell, and it's gonna
be doing our repetitions of straightening the arms up and
bend the back down, three seconds down and three seconds

(00:28):
in healing and three seconds at sailing.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
So here we go nice and smoove.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
We're doing our twelve repetitions all right, trying to focus
on making sure that our core position is right on target.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Our fire bell alignment has right on target.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here and again it's breathing.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
And making that muscle feel the stretch and then feel
the tiding back through and down and feel the stretch
and then feel the tiging back through, tigen.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
In the arm and stretching them.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Inhaling and exhaling, keeping a good court position, hanging those muscles,
stretching them own, tighten those muscles, and I want and.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Again here as we work on a strength building.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
If we work on a strength building, whether it's the
triceps or biceps, are on strength building, we're working through.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Here's week one of arms, triceps.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
We're working to get twelve repetitions, and on those twelve repetitions,
maintaining the M three muscle finder, the tightening of three
seconds and the stretching of three seconds. We're resting in
between each set enough to make sure that we can recuperate.
Our blood is now pumping to the arm. Right, blood's

(02:24):
gonna start pumping to the arm. So now as we
do the next set of twelve, same thing, we're gonna
have to challenge the mind. Okay, let's challenge the mind.
You get a good body position, bringing the weights up
and start the challenge. And there's one.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
And to breathe it. Yeah, three four five sure.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And working that strong muscle find them up two, three
down to three ben the elbows straight and the elbows good,
last ones, Yeah, nice and strong. Instead of tiding those

(03:27):
arms up.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Through squeeze and down smooth.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
And then in the ninety.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And back up good and then we're wait buck down again.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You can be using kettlebell, dumbbells. You can use a band.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
You can stand up with the band over your head
for your try steps. You can use a straight bar,
whatever strength building you have available. And I we're going
to make sure that our breathing. It's about getting that
circulation to the muscles, making those muscles improve their mind connection,

(04:19):
neurologically functioning. We want the neurological function of we have
command of those muscles, So gain command of those muscles.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Okay, ready, next round twelve. So we're doing.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Four sets of twelve for forty eight repetitions, and we
want to wait in which again we can get through
at least the.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Twelve, maybe up to twenty, but not any more than that. Right,
we want to use enough that twenty would be a
little too much. So work the airing er. Right, I'm
strong and it's tightened through.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
There's three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and

(05:36):
two more.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Work that trice of control, control the challenges in the mind,
the challenges making.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Sure we have good control. And if you make it
through all the repetitions and.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Create all that muscle strength building, right, the strength building
is going to occur because we can keep doing the movements.
We have to be able to keep doing those movements
and to get the muscle they get the function in
and the blood flow.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Otherwise the uh, we're.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Not going to get the repetitions required to get the muscle.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
To build the strength, they need mitochondria.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Which is a certain type of energy that happens inside
the cell, the mi chondria inside the cell.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
You need that energy.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Built and we need to have it be where where
the repetitions caused us to get the challenge. The challenge
comes in the mind and the body. Okay, and you
connect the two. Okay, right, we're gonna make sure we
have clean rip.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, get through our next twelve repetitions.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
We get a big breath of arian.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Said the core because we're pulling the tubby keeping the
backup straight and that will take the weight into our
first repetition and down smooth.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
There's warm and three.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Four fi.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Six. Now here's the challenge, right the last of the repetitions, right.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kay. Now, the arm's gonna burn.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
They might get a little shaky, they might get burned
and shake, but we're gonna work through because we know
we can do these reps.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
A little more.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah h and tighten those arms and down smooth, m excellent,
great job. I new you'd love that.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Again. Excellent work today on finding.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Those muscles and we'll keep moving on the next exercise
and we're going to train consistently like this on week one,
week two, week three, and just keep moving

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Long great job today,
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