Mountain Wellness

Mike and Corey Connect with Josh Bearum to Uncover How His Training Mindset Transformed Mike's Prep for This Season's Mt. Whitney 1-Day 22 mile Challenge

Exploring the path to a fulfilling life, Mike and Corey engage in a conversation with John Minor on the vital elements of longevity. Mike, inspired by John's triumph over his fear of heights on Mt Whitney at 14,000 ft, discovers the significance of incorporating weight training into one's life for an enhanced quality of life.

Explore the extraordinary transformation of Kelby Garman in this Mountain Wellness Podcast episode. Hosts Corey Reed and Mike Maina take you on a journey from weight loss to trail running triumphs. Delve into the psychology of Kelby's 100-pound transformation, emphasizing the significance of family, friends, and community support. Gain valuable insights as Corey, Kelby's coach, imparts practical tips on performance breath work, recovery, nutrition, and strength training. Join us for a compelling narrative of self-optimization, personal growth, and conquering mountain challenges. This episode is a source of inspiration, motivation, and practical advice for mountain athletes and wellness enthusiasts alike.

Embark on a journey with Corey and Mike as they dissect the factors driving the 2023 mortality surge in Episode Two of the Mountain Wellness Podcast. Gain insights into historical context, financial implications for insurers, and global perspectives. Gary's expertise in "Bio-Hacking" and "Functional Medicine" provides actionable health advice, covering exercise benefits, red light therapy, sunlight exposure, nutrient optimization, and methylation tests. Explore the complexities of long COVID-19 impact and insurers' responses, emphasizing proactive mortality risk management. The episode concludes with impactful insights, encouraging listeners to prioritize well-being. Stay tuned for more episodes on this transformative wellness journey!

Mike and Corey Talk about the respiratory system and how it is closely linked to the body's stress response, and stress can have a significant impact on breathing patterns and overall respiratory health. When the body experiences stress, the sympathetic nervous system is activated, triggering a series of physiological changes known as the "fight-or-flight" response. This response prepares the body for physical exertion or danger, and it can also affect the respiratory system in several ways.

Do you cross a snow bridge with water running underneath in a no-fall zone? with or without proper gear? The dreaded headache at 12,500 Feet with no acclimatization. Broken sleep, Gastrointestinal issues from altitude. How the right gear can make you feel safe even though the reality is you're untrained.

How to work with sunlight for optimal health and longevity.

Corey and Mike discuss how the Kettlebell has transformed their routines and much more!

Special guest and best-selling author Adam Hart reveals one of the keys to longevity. 

Corey and Mike examine how to get clear on the essential things in your life.

Mike and Corey look at the most important tools to jump-start your day. 

As an Educator and Coach at SH/FT, Emily Hightower leverages her expertise in the neurophysiology of trauma and resilience to help clients master their stress response and improve their quality of life. By combining over 25 years of experience as a breathing expert, yoga instructor, river guide, and wilderness EMT, Emily empowers high performers to disrupt limits, align with nature, and heal their bodies and minds.

Brians's protocols have been used to accelerate and raise mental and physical performance in world-class Olympic and professional athletes, top executives, and elite military operators, as well as to improve the health of people suffering from various chronic and pathological issues. 

Mike hides his cinnamon roll as Corey breaks down an easy-to-follow, metabolic reset. This four week package will launch your metabolism into a fat-burning machine.https://www.mountainwellnesslife.com/pages/health-performance-coachingWhat you get: 1. FOUR consecutive weekly coaching sessions with Corey.  These can be in person at the Recovery Den or remote telehealth. 2. Our Mountain Wellness Daily Essentials nutritional supplement bundle includes: * Thorne Creatine * Pure Encapsulations Essential Aminos * Celtic Salt * Natural Vitality Calm * ProOmega EPA+DHA fish oil * Grass Fed Whey- pick Chocolate or Vanilla 3. Unlimited text support with Corey for any questions throughout the month. 4. Unlimited access to the Mountain Wellness Sauna during the month you are enrolled. 5. Discount link for 20% off InsideTracker blood and DNA test. This is a bonus, but not necessary in order to participate in a four-week Metabolic Reset.Contact Shay at: team@mountainwellnesslife.com

Mike and Corey recall a crazy year with the best moments from thought leaders and world champions.  Plus, Corey and I, when things get out of control in the mountains.

After years of pursuing health and wellness, Mike and Corey have learned just to eat the damn cookie!

The Mountain Wellness team begins their journey with InsideTracker to further self optimization and longevity. 

"Mike and Corey exchange experiences as they profile the book "Deep Survival," Who Lives, Who dies, and Why by author Lawrence Gonzales. 1. Be here now—no other thought than the present. Keep an up-to-date mental model of changing conditions.2. Everything takes eight times as long as it's supposed to. It's the friction rule.3. Mistake - Make a plan and worship the plan despite changing conditions. More and more effort will somehow overcome the friction.4. The more complex the plan for overcoming friction, the worse things get.5. "We live like fish in an aquarium. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo we call civilization. Then we go into nature, where we are least among equals. There we are put to the test. Most of us get out unscathed, which can make us even more vulnerable to the ever-changing conditions before us—even arrogant. We have been there, and done that."

Why do we take respiratory performance seriously? You will hear from breathing expert Nick Heath in this episode, who has benefited from his breathwork practice to reduce the effects of diabetes. 

At the GoPro Mountain Games, Corey and Mike are captivated by Davis Hermes's trajectory before he becomes a world champion. At twelve years old, Davis found his calling in the world of slackline. By twenty-two years old, he takes the world champion freestyle Highline in Switzerland. 

A generation has leaders, and we believe Mark Divine is one of the best. Whether pursuing purpose, mindset, resilience, or being of service to humanity at the highest levels, this conversation has it all.https://sealfit.com/https://www.amazon.com/s?k=staring+down+the+wolf&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_nossNYT Bestseller, WSJ Bestseller, and #1 Amazon for booksRanked the #1 trainee of SEAL BUDS/class number 170Served nine years on active duty and 11 years as a Reserve Seal, retiring as Commander in 2011SEALFIT has helped thousands transform their lives, both online and on-site in Encinitas, CaliforniaMark is a highly sought-after speaker, coach, and author and makes frequent media appearances to discuss Seal's way of life.

Mike and Corey find out what it takes to launch off an 80-foot waterfall as Nick Troutman takes us inside his preparation for freestyle Kayaking.

Mark has dove as deep as 135 feet, all on a single breath of air. An astounding breath hold of six minutes underwater.  “As a waterman, Mark is unrivaled,” says big-wave icon Laird Hamilton. “When it comes to riding giant waves, diving deep, and hunting fish, he's the total package—unique even among us.”

Corey Reed makes another round with COVID, while Mike, who believes he's mastered the backcountry, gets humbled on the John Muir Trail.

Corey gets the low down. In another attempt at the Mt. Whitney Summit, 14,508 Oxygen saturation levels dropped to as low as 75% as Mike and the athlete team worked to raise oxygen saturation levels. Bear encounters, Crazy Jack, Mike, John, Chad, Seth, and Jonathan all make summiting another unforgettable experience.

Endurance - The ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions. Mike and Corey wrap up with the third biomarker from their premiere online respiratory performance online course. Oxygen utilization is foundational to the mountain athlete in all endeavors.

Mike and Corey share their foundation for human performance beginning with the highest oxygen transfer possible. Oxygen powers every muscle, cell, and vital organ in the body. Simply put we can potentially raise an athlete's performance by as much as 20% with our closed balanced system.

LINK: Mountain Wellness Performance BreathworkMike and Corey are off to the GoPro Mountain Games Vail to introduce their proprietary Closed Balanced System of breathing for the first time.

Mike and Corey dive into the world of carbon dioxide to explain the vital connection to the oxygen in your system. This is a game changer!

Registration link: https://govcupmt.com/  Mike and Corey get the run down on the biggest race in Montana from director Bryan Haines and elite athlete coordinator Jesse Zentz. See the link in this post for registration and you can support your local montanans community June 11, 2022.

Mike and Corey with the support of a great team effort put the gas pedal to the floor to Make it to this years 2022 GoPro Mountain Games in Vail C0. Looking back Corey recognizes Mountain Wellness was born at the GoPro Mountain Games. 

Registration link: https://hurlelkhorn.com/     It's time to dust of those shoes and get after it! Mike and Corey talk to John Hallsten and John Fitzgerald from the Helena Ultra Runners League (HURL). 

 Why do Sherpa's put butter in their coffee at high altitude?  Is there mold in coffee? In pursuit of raw energy, Mike and Corey dig into the complex world of coffee. 

Mike and Corey dig into the foundation of human performance.

It's winter! Mountain athletes are knee deep in fresh pow pow! But even for the pro skier knee injuries lurk around every turn. Corey Reed founder of mountain wellness gives us the inside scoop to help bombproof the knees.

When nature calls.

After Mike and Corey experience COVID -19 they share their experiences of top recovery protocols. 

As Corey waits for his scent to return after a bout with COVID, Mike begins a russian protocol in his sauna.

Mike and Corey talk high performance breathwork with Dr. George Dallam PhD. George is an exercise physiologist at Colorado State University Pueblo and former US national triathlon coach of elite athletes. George and his research team have done some of the early research on the benefits of nasal breathing for athletic performance.

Heal and create the life you want with Kelly Gores. Documentary filmmaker, Author, and podcast host.

This week, we spoke with human performance coach, Emily Hightower. Emily takes an integrative science based approach with her clients combining embodied movement, yoga, nutrition, bio feedback, and what she calls, medicinal breath work. Emily is recognized as one of the top performance breathwork coaches,  working alongside founders of The Art of Breath, Brian McKenzie and Rob Orlando. Emily is especially passionate about high performers that have been exposed to trauma, teaching them Intrinsic skills to develop stress resilience. Emily is an avid skier, bow hunter, and level IV Whitewater kayak teacher and calls Baselt, CO home.

Fast track to a healthy winter. Corey breaks down the best way to eat for health and longevity. Mike worries about his food during an 8 hour feeding window.

This week we're talking fueling, nutrition, and how to develop metabolic flexibility. 

(Resources below) When we think of the mountains, we think of our playground and a place we find solitude, but the other side that we don't give much thought about is when adventures go bad and The individuals that show up if something goes wrong. On this episode,  we talk to Moose Mutlow. Moose has been a member and senior trainer at Yosemite search and rescue since 2002, which is one of the busiest SAR operations in the world. He  has over 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting;  Moose also is  the lead trainer for the family liaison officers national park service teaching course instruction in Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Tetons. We talk about Moos's career in search and rescue, what the role of a family liaison officer is, and the psychological impact this work has on first responders.Moose MutlowBook "When Accidents Happen"Stress ContinuumNature Bridge

Kurt founded Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. in the fall of 1995 after returning from his first of three successful expeditions to Mt. Everest. With over 40 years of mountaineering experience in the Sierra Kurt has also guided 120+ expeditions to high peaks in Africa, Alaska, the Alps, Antarctica, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Russia, Tibet, and Turkey. He completed the Seven Summits in the Summer of 2012 after summiting Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia. Kurt runs Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. from his hometown of Bishop, CA along the slopes of the beautiful Eastern Sierra.

Mike visits the Mountain Wellness Recovery Den in Helena Montana for the first time. 

Rose Grant, defending champion and winner of the 2021 Leadville 100 Mountain bike race,  sits down with us  just before the race and takes us inside her intense training and high risk strategies to dominate the sport. 

Mountain stoke at it's best! YouTube video at 3:57 will blow your mind. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw6EhqSQb1UMountain athlete Tricky Mickey Wilson joins us this week and takes us into the intense yet calm world of slack line. 

YouTube https://youtu.be/OuLtKI6AdRc Close friend Kenny Kane shares with us what defines an athlete, what seasonal training is, and why it is essential to know your purpose for training. 

 Without fully understanding https://youtu.be/BIJBznf71RY what was about to unfold and how truly difficult the challenge would be, Mike with his son Cameron and friend John Minor attempt to Summit Mt. Whitney in a day. Altitude sickness, forest fires, digestion issue, all complicate the one day 21 hour marathon adventure. Corey prepares daily for the Impact Montana Warrior race even though they are not briefed on the obstacles until a day before it begins. 

Mike is off to climb Mount Whitney in the Eastern Sierras, but before he set's off, he discusses his training program, fueling strategies, and gear load with Corey. If you have ever wanted to hike Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48, this episode will get you ready to perform like a Himalayan Sherpa and have your gear dialed like a special operator.