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By James Fletcher
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 disc...
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 sw...
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...
7 years ago
Bringing science to the breath
Welcome to the home of ‘Bringing science to the breath’. My name is James Fletcher and I am a Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist from Australia. I have spent the last 10 years travelling around the world training athletes respi...
7 years ago
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