Nsima Inyang

You'll see certain athletes where they, you'll see them chest breathing all the time.

They have shallow breaths.

They don't deep, they don't breathe into their diaphragm because they want to keep their stomach super flat and tight, right?

And they're holding all of this excess tension in their body, which means that when they're asleep, their body can't just relax or their shoulders can't go down.

They're still in a state of

sympathetic tone, right?

Which is fight or flight, slight when they're asleep.

So you wonder why you have sleep apnea.

It's because you're

You're breathing through your mouth and you're super tense when you're sleeping because your tissues are still holding onto this tension that you brought with you from the gym.

Mark tells all these stories where he's like, well, he's talked about it when he was in the midst of powerlifting.

It's like his workouts would stay with him for a few days.

He would feel them for a few days.

And it's because of the tension that he created within that session, he continued to hold onto when he went about all the other things that he was gonna do, which affected his recovery, which allowed him not to be able to just like relax because there were certain tissues that were still

when they didn't need to be on.

So again, it's again this, it's kind of a yin and a yang when it comes to the tension that you hold.

You gotta be able to yang, which is energy, light, you gotta be able to turn it on when it needs to be on.

But when you need to relax, you need things like being your own body worker and working on your tissues and finding those areas that are holding too much tension.

And you need to learn how to,

put pressure into them, relax, breathe, see what comes of it.