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Apnoea, Breath Hold, Breathing Science, Fletcher Techniques, High Performance, Improve Performance, Performance Breathing
Intermittent Hypoxic Training (IHT) Part 1/4
This is a four part series unpacking the “highs” and lows of what we know about hypoxic training. There is some great research out there about the ‘old’ ways and there are some fantastic new and innovative ways to gain some potential benefits from this training. (15 minutes reading t...
6 years ago
How alcohol affects your breathing
Just finished SOBER OCTOBER? Does your breathing feel better? IT SHOULD! Asthma is a condition that causes peoples airways to become narrow, it becomes difficult to breath and it can be life threatening. Many people with asthma dread the change of seasons and any TRIGGER can set them o...
6 years ago
Apnoea, Breathing Fatigue, Breathing Science, Fletcher Techniques, High Performance, SCUBA, Swimming
How to breathe underwater – A definitive guide
How do we breathe when we’re underwater? Does it matter how we breathe? let’s find out if it matters! I recently had a SCUBA and free-diving holiday on a liveaboard in Komoda National Park, Indonesia. It made me think critically about what exactly happens to the breath and our bo...
6 years ago
Lecture – Shortness of Breath (30 mins)
Please click on this link here to go to the 30 min lecture Here we discuss the breath and how we can influence shortness of breath and improve performance. ...
7 years ago
Apnoea, Breath Hold, Breathing, Breathing Fatigue, Improve Performance, Performance Breathing, Swimming
How Breath training makes you swim faster
How Breath training makes you swim faster….. Research in the field of breath training for sports improvement dates back a number of years from the pioneers in the 1960s with Campbell & Howell, who before ethics committees existed, use to knock themselves out with anaesthetic and look at the me...
7 years ago
Why do we go to the gym?
There are many reasons we see patients, athletes and everyday people going to the gym. The health benefits have been well documented but here are a few reasons we might not think of straight away. Strong Bones – going to the gym maintains the strength of your bones. This becomes particularly impor...
7 years ago
THE FEED
By James Fletcher
Shallow Water Blackout Physiology wins everytime
In response to the number of people contacting me in recent times looking to improve their breath hold and I’ve lost count of the number of people wanting to get into spear-fishing or free-diving, I’m pushing this out to share. S...
5 years ago
INTERMITTENT HYPOXIC TRAINING (IHT) PART 3/4
HYPOXIA & CENTRAL GOVERNOR Introduction The last blog introduced the different ways we can increase the stress to the body by reducing oxygen supply to the tissues. We call this desaturation, and we measure it with a pulse oximeter. By ...
5 years ago
Nobel Prize – How we sense Oxygen
Nobel Prize in Physiology – OXYGEN This years Nobel prize in Physiology goes to 3 researchers who helped to reveal the way cells in the body respond too and sense oxygen availability. We now know the body senses Oxygen at the tissue le...
5 years ago
Gypsy Tales PODCAST – The breath
Why breath training interventions need to be specific and measurable! Click here to listen my the Gypsy tales PODcast with James Fletcher...
6 years ago