Episode 2: Caitlin Schad, Catalyst Athlete & TPH Performance Coach

Win Your Life Podcast Episode 2: Catalyst Athletics Athlete & TPHMN Performance Coach Caitlin Schad — Universal Prescriptions, Training, Breath-work & Meditation

In this episode, Catalyst Athletics Athlete & TPHMN Performance Coach Caitlin Schad tells her story of making the Catalyst Team and tells us how her breathing and meditation practice has helped her in her sport. Caitlin explains why her approach to training, breath-work and meditation is not a one-size-fits all approach and how this has influenced her coaching.

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The goal of The Win Your Life Podcast is to illuminate the intersection between prevention and performance. The fitness industry is focused on performance and not always concerned with prevention. On the other hand, our health care system is focused, by necessity, on combatting the overwhelming amount of disease, illness and injury in our society. At the intersection of prevention and performance, there is a group of coaches, medical professionals, business leaders, athletes, and thought leaders that are working to help you Win Your Life.

In this series, we are addressing the idea of ‘Universal Prescriptions’, the notion that there is a best way for us all to exercise, eat, sleep, breath and live.

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Caitlin Podcast Shownotes

(1:44) Plainview, MN 

(2:23) Kinesiology Bachelor of Science at University of Minnesota
(3:00) Tucker Center on Girls & Women in Sport

(4:30) The sport of weightlifting 

(4:55) Link to U25 Nationals Footage, Caitlin is in the 76kg category

(5:51) Catalyst Athletics 

(9:38) Olympic Weightlifting by Greg Everett

(11:20) Bulgarian Method in Olympic Weightlifting 

(16:23) training camp with greg & pyros dimas

(16:42) Power vs Aerobic responder considerations 

(21:04) Overhead range of motion and strength considerations for weightlifting

(22:27) PTSMN working overhead

(25:43) Recovery Methods: Napping, Contrast Method (Heat and Ice, Shower), Downregulation

(26:38) Breathwork & Meditation for Training and State Optimization 

(28:21) Wim Hof, Shift State

(31:08) Link to Caitlin hitting a big clean

(31:32) Buffalo link on Max’s linkedin

(34:25) Parasympathetic vs Sympathetic State 

(34:30) Brian Mackenzie Art of Breath 

(34:55) Nasal Breathing and Parasympathetic State 

(35:12) Mouthbreathing and Sympathetic State, Tunnel Vision & Sympathetic State

(36:30) Superventilation & Wim Hof 

(38:28) ‘The mind is the king of the senses, the breath is the king of the mind.’ B.K.S. Iyengar

(40:45) Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, PS vs S tone

(41:59) Superventiliation vs Hyperventilation

(44:43) diaphragmatic breathing 

(45:00) the benefits of nasal breathing, intro to nasal breathing

(45:08) Dr. Andrew Weil, 4-7-8 Breathing Technique 

(47:20) Meditation Practice : Headspace

(49:50) Waking Up App by Sam Harris

(52:42) The observer of your thoughts 

(56:42) @therealcaitshady, @thepowerhousemn

(57:03) wu-tang forever

(58:00) 4thworld, lastnamelipset,