Blake's Tinman

09/02/2026

What are you doing on September 12? If you’re in the Reedsburg area and looking for a Fun event, please come check us out! All proceeds go to improving the mental health of our community.

Live music, sprint triathlon, good food, co****le tournament, live auction, silent auction, lots of raffles. Bounce house for the kids. kids 18 and under are free.

https://www.blakestinman.com/events/blakes-tinman-festival

08/24/2026

We need your help!

Blake’s Tinman Mental Health Festival is coming up September 12, and we still have quite a few volunteer spots to fill.

Please click the link below, sign up for a spot, and then SHARE this post. Even if you can only give us a couple of hours, it makes a huge difference.

This event takes a lot of hands to pull off, and we truly need all the help we can get.

https://www.blakestinman.com/volunteer

Sign up. Share. Help us make this year’s Tinman another incredible day for our community.

Stay in it. ❤️

Sign up belowto help make Blake’s Tinman Mental Health Fundraiser possible. We can’t do this without you! Date: September 12, 2026Time: Starts at 10 am (lots of different shifts available)Location: S2720 County Road V, Reedsburg, WI 53959 Claim Your Volunteer Job Here

08/22/2026

Inventory update: we just added more bikes and kayaks for rent, and have a few spots left for the Sept 12 Tinman Triathlon! https://www.blakestinman.com/events/blakes-tinman-festival

08/21/2026

Thank you Busy Bee Valley Farm and Bakehouse for your sponsorship! Check them out on Main Street in Reedsburg for delicious sourdough and treats.

08/19/2026

Fun Company! You’ll always hold a special place in our hearts. Thanks for being Blake’s biggest donor. Your sponsorship helps this foundation help so many people!

08/19/2026

Shout out to these two awesome sponsors, Heidi Nemitz with Gavin Bros Auctioneers Real Estate and Checkered Flag Embroidery. Thank you!

08/19/2026

Thank you Bees Knees Waxing Studio!

08/19/2026

Thank you Pam Coy with Viking Village and Precision Automotive of Reedsburg for your sponsorship! And thank you Tabatha Dahn for making the rounds today getting picture and handing out flyers and wellness grant applications!

08/18/2026

SAUK COUNTY FALL SPORTS COACHES — I’M OPENING UP THREE TEAM TRAINING SESSIONS.

Football. Cross-country. Soccer. Volleyball. Tennis. And other fall sports.

For September and October, through the Blake’s Tinman Foundation, I’m offering three teams the opportunity to experience CO₂ tolerance training.

This is something I have become absolutely fascinated with.

Most athletes are taught how to get stronger. How to run faster. How to improve technique. How to train harder.

Very few are ever taught how to breathe.

And even fewer are taught how to become comfortable with rising levels of CO₂ and the sensation of air hunger that shows up when their body is working hard.

That’s what we’re going to train.

We’ll work with breathing gears—including nose/nose, nose/mouth and mouth/mouth breathing—and teach athletes how to deliberately change gears as intensity changes.

We’ll train CO₂ tolerance.

One of my favorite examples comes from the 1992 U.S. Olympic swimming team. That team left Barcelona with 27 swimming medals—11 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze—nine more total medals than the U.S. had won four years earlier. Some of the swimmers of that era were being exposed to reduced-breath and breath-hold training designed to challenge the body under conditions of increasing CO₂. It’s one of the stories that first made me ask: Why aren’t we teaching young athletes more about this?

We’ll explore recovery breathing.

We’ll learn how to bring the heart rate and nervous system back under control.

And then we’ll take those same skills into the mental game.

Pressure. Anxiety. Mistakes. Frustration. Fatigue. Confidence. Focus. Being coachable. Being a great teammate. And some good old-fashioned sportsmanship.

Because the athlete who can stay composed when everyone else is falling apart has an advantage.

The athlete who can recover and reset has an advantage.

And the athlete who understands their own breathing has a tool they can carry with them for the rest of their life.

I’ve spent the last several months immersed in this work, practicing it myself and teaching it to others, and I’ve seen enough that I want our local young athletes to experience it.

So I’m opening three FREE team sessions through the Blake’s Tinman Foundation for youth and high school teams in Sauk County during September and October, but only until the slots are filled.

Coaches, athletic directors and parents—reach out to me if you want one of the three spots.

And Reedsburg coaches…

I’d probably claim yours before Baraboo does. 😉

And Baraboo coaches…

you really gonna let Reedsburg beat you to it?

Breathe differently. Recover differently. Perform differently.

Comment “tell me more” and I’ll send you a DM with more details.