In Part Two of this interview, Mark and Laird Hamilton get into more specifics about training, recovery and nutrition. They also talk about the importance of proper breathing and using imagery. How it is essential to imagine a destination before you can actually get there. Both Mark and Laird are “watermen,” and air is almost everything when you’re in the water, so naturally proper breathing techniques are important.

Hear how:

• Laird credits a great deal of his fitness knowledge to Paul Chek
• Laird was doing “Paleo” before it had a name.
• While it is useful to have some fear, it is essential that positive and negative thoughts are mostly in balance but with positive always a little bit ahead

Listen to this episode to both get insights about both the psychology and physiological requirements of high performance.