Breathing performance for fighters. Why you gas out in round two, why the nerves take your legs, and how to get your heart rate down between rounds. Shaun Tucker is a health scientist and breathing performance trainer in Melbourne. His first MMA fight lasted sixteen seconds. The video of it has been watched more than 2.8 million times. He knows what it costs to walk in under pressure, and what it takes to walk back in after losing in front of everyone. Short daily episodes on nasal breathing, CO2 tolerance, the adrenaline dump, recovery between sessions, and the work he does with young fighters who lose themselves under the lights. You're not switched on too much. You're switched on too hard. If it can be measured, it can be changed. For coaches and gyms: private breathing performance workshops inside Australian fight gyms. Ninety minutes with your squad, measured at the start and measured again at the end. <a href="http://shauntucker.com.au"
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Signup to Generate a PitchBreathing performance for fighters. Why you gas out in round two, why the nerves take your legs, and how to get your heart rate down between rounds. Shaun Tucker is a health scientist and breathing performance trainer in Melbourne. His first MMA fight lasted sixteen seconds. The video of it has been watched more than 2.8 million times.
Man In Your Corner is hosted by Shaun Tucker. The show has published 256 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Why Your Forearms Gas Out in BJJ: Grip, Tension and Breathing | Man In Your Corner Ep 255" (20 October 2026, 4 minutes), "What a Rest Day Looks Like in Fight Camp: Active Recovery for Fighters | Man In Your Corner Ep 254" (19 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "Is Breathwork Just Hype? The Science of Breathing for Fighters | Man In Your Corner Ep 253" (18 October 2026, 8 minutes).
Man In Your Corner publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 6 minutes across 256 episodes.
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Why do my forearms gas out when I'm grappling? Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, on why newer grapplers burn out their grip, and why the people who have been rolling longer stay composed, in...
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What does a rest day look like this deep into a fight camp? Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, six weeks out from the finale of his camp, on what he actually does on his two rest days a week...
Episode #253
Is breathwork just hype, or does it actually have scientific merit? Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, separates the two kinds of breathwork and explains the one that matters when you are under...
Episode #252
Should you breathe through your mouth or your nose when you're rolling hard or sparring hard? Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, on the nose-only rule he doesn't follow in a hard round, and the...
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A camp doesn't wear you down in the gym. It wears you down when you never leave it. Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, on the part of training nobody schedules: the hours after the session...
Episode #250
What you do in the few minutes AFTER a hard round decides how the next one goes - and whether you sleep that night at all. Shaun Tucker, health scientist and breath performance coach, learned this the hard way: his...
Episode #249
You can spar for a full hour and feel fine. Then it is comp day, and you are gassed within minutes of the first round. That gets read as a fitness problem almost every time, and it almost never is one. What has changed...
Episode #248
Warming up is great for your muscles. It is doing almost nothing for your nervous system - and that is the part that decides whether anything you are taught today actually goes in. Most guys walk in, warm the muscles...
Episode #247
Missing weight is the part everyone argues about. It is not the part that costs you the fight. A bad cut does its real damage the next night, when a fighter walks out with a nervous system that is fried, dry and...
Episode #246
You can go ten rounds on the bags and feel fine. Put a person in front of you who can hit you back and the gas tank is gone in a round. That is not a fitness problem, and this episode is about why. A bag is a harmless...
Episode #245
Sal Everett spent the opening ninety seconds of his Contender Series fight covered up under Ozzy Martin's blitz. He won by KO at 1:57 and left with a UFC contract. Getting blitzed doesn't mean you're losing. It means...
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The first tangle decides more fights than the first punch. Calm wins the scramble. Here is why. Whoever grabs hold first is at the advantage, and not because of the grip. The moment it happens the other man's heart rate...
Episode #243
The scariest man in the cage isn't the knockout artist. It's the one still breathing easy in round four. This one is half fight preview, half engine lesson. Allen and Duncan headline at middleweight this weekend. Duncan...
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If I had 90 minutes with your academy, this is exactly where I'd start. Not with drills. With two measurements. First, everyone's resting pulse. A resting heart rate tells me what is actually going on in that room...
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Your hands go cold in the changeroom and everyone blames the room. It isn't the room. What has actually happened is a fight-or-flight response. The adrenaline dumps in, and your body starts triaging: it keeps the things...
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Dehydration in a weight cut does not cost you strength. It costs you the ability to calm down. That is the whole argument, and it matters more than it sounds, because the thing you lose is the thing that decides whether...
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Everyone tells you to get eight hours the night before you fight. Almost nobody manages it, and the reason is not discipline. It is sympathetic arousal. Tomorrow you go to war with another human being, and your system...
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Every fighter gets about a minute in the corner between rounds. It is the most undertrained minute in the sport. Most of it gets spent being talked at. Which would be fine, except the person being talked at cannot...
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Your hands drop in round three. You blame your shoulders. You should check your jaw. Here is what is actually happening. You are holding your breath, and you are holding tension in your jaw - and because everything up...
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Every coach teaches you to exhale on the punch. It gives you more power, and that part is true. Almost nobody teaches you what to do between them. That gap is the whole episode. If you cannot recover your breath, it...
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