By James Fletcher
THE FEED
Apnoea, Breathing, Breathing Science, High Performance, Improve Performance, Performance Breathing, Swimming
The Low down on Altitude Masks
Today’s post is going to be short and sharp. Altitude masks have been on my mind this week as I see more friends and amateur athletes add them to their training programs and altitude gyms keep popping up around me. So, of course I decided to take a look from a science perspective. First of [&helli...
6 years ago
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 star...
6 years ago
Chris Froome, Asthmatic or Drug cheat?
Some sports have a cloud of scandals that follow them around, and none more so than elite cycling. The drug scandals that tarnish this sport have ramped up, recently targeting respiratory inhalers that are used to manage asthma, a condition which, interestingly, affects a higher percentage of athlet...
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 th...
6 years ago
Breathing muscle fatigue Part 2
Our last post discussed breathing muscle fatigue and its effect on performance. We know these muscles can get fatigued, and this post will investigate the effects on the exercising muscles when this happens. Before we get into the practical application, the reasons we focus on the fatigue of the bre...
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 con...
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, Under...
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 pr...
7 years ago
THE FEED
By James Fletcher
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 th...
5 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 a...
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. ...
6 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 ...
6 years ago