By James Fletcher
THE FEED
By James Fletcher
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 applicati...
7 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...
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 dis...
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 1...
7 years ago