Archives of Performance Breathing

The thing most breath training programs forget

Breath training programs, pulmonary rehabilitation and breath hold experts need to start addressing the incredible strength of our breathing muscles.   From breath hold to performance enhancement, anxiety control to asthma management and lung rehabilitation – here’s why you need to start lifting weights with your lungs. There are so many different theories these days […]
6 years ago

James Fletcher Harness the Power Of Breath Into 2018

What Is the Science Behind The Power Of The Breath? As another New Year’s creeps up, we feel motivated to dive into another 28-day challenge or new juice cleanse. However, year-after-year most people will neglect improving their overall health and performance long-term: including decreasing their anxiety, altering their work routines, or even working to quit […]
6 years ago

Breathing Muscle Fatigue Part 1

Is breathing fatigue really a thing? The breathing muscles, like the heart, must work continuously with little opportunity to rest, and guess what? They do get TIRED!! There is clear evidence to support breathing muscle fatigue, I have discussed some of this evidence in previous posts and I will continue to do so as I […]
7 years ago

Underwater Swimming & Breath Training

We are going to take a look at an article by (Wylegala et al 2007) published in the European Journal of Physiology, which looks at the mechanisms of how IMT improves surface and underwater swimming to exhaustion. This may include Olympic swimming disciplines, Tri-athalon, Free-diving, Surfing, Underwater hockey along with other aquatic sports. In the […]
7 years ago

Breath Holding and Strong Diaphragms

I have been working with some elite swimmers, surfers and free divers to improve their performance and their ability to hold their breath underwater. We take a close look at how this works… The current world record for a single breath hold is 11:35sec set in 2009, set by Stephane Mifsud who prepared himself by […]
7 years ago
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