Blue Grit Radio: Improving Police and First Responders of Life through Mindset, Wellness, Leadership

142: Reducing Critical Stress from DV Investigations and SWAT with Cold Exposure and Breathwork, w/ Adam Boyd


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Cold therapy... ice plunges... breathwork.  There is a lot of info and content continuing to grow in these fields, but what are the REAL benefits and real potential drawbacks or dangers the IG reels aren't showing?  These are worthy modalities to discuss in our quest to keep refining our knowledge and practice to decompress our stress and build our optimal careers and lives!

Enter Adam Boyd, experienced police officer, SWAT team member and detective.  Combine that with his background in endurance training, you had a cop's cop that knew stress from both ends: patrol/tactical calls and casework. Adam tells his story in law enforcement and how he came to get trained in strength and conditioning atop his background in endurance sport.

Adam's awareness and health insight went next level when he attended training through Wim Hof- focused on breathwork and cold therapy. We discuss the different factors to consider and why, when, and how one may consider experimenting and trying these methods.  Adam answers my questions, and as of this writing, I have dabbled back into cold showers as the weather cools outside!  BRRR!
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Adam Boyd is the founder and CEO of Soleful Training. He has over a decade of experience as a police officer, three of which were on a SWAT team and 6 as a Detective. Adam created department wellness challenges and programming, trained their SWAT team, assigned as PT team lead, and revamped the SWAT PT applicant process. 

Adam amassed certifications such as NSCA Tactical Facilitator, Leadership Resilience (Harvard Business School), FBINA Comprehensive Resilience Train the Trainer, Wim Hof Level 1, XPT Performance Breathing Coach, and AZ POST Physical Fitness Instructor. He is also an ultra runner and has completed an ultra distance over a dozen times to include two 100 mile runs. Adam's experience allowed him to understand the rigors of the job which prompted him to create a holistic wellness program that focuses on first responders.  

Soleful Training's holistic wellness program consists of 4 pillars: physical resilience, mental resilience, social resilience, and purpose.  Soleful Training's focus is on changing behavior, not just providing knowledge. Our first responders deserve to have the tools to prevent and assist with the stressors of the job. 

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