Monthly Archives: June 2011

After having a go and testing it out, it didn't take long to get the technique correct and I quickly settled into a routine of using my POWERbreathe twice per day fairly easily. I'm starting out on resistance 2.5 on the performance plus, which is a good challenge and I can definitely feel my lungs working for that. Transferring that into my swimming training I could see some initial benefits and gains all ready, if I used it before a session I felt that my breathing was much more controlled and improved slightly in function as well as efficiency.

This is really important to my in two ways, firstly because I'm asthmatic and so I...

A few weeks ago I was approached to take part in a fitness trial to test out the POWERbreathe Sport model, as a personal trainer & amateur athlete I am always interested in testing out new equipment for use with my clients and also for my own training.

My POWERbreathe arrived earlier this week, I unwrapped the packaging like a kid on Christmas day! I have heard a lot of positive feedback about the POWERbreathe so I am really looking forward to putting it to the test and seeing if it my performance improves.

It promises to strengthen inspiratory muscles to aid breathing helping a number of medical conditions such as COPD &...

Melanie Ryding

Height 5.10

Weight: 12 stone

Powerbreathe model: powerbreathe plus: fitness

Activity level: high – I am a Great Britain Age Group triathlete and train twice a day, usually around 10-12 hours per week (plus the day job!)

I was interested to take part in this trial because I am asthmatic. I have been for around 15 years. Nowadays it causes me little trouble and I do not take any regular steroids, however I mostly notice chest pain and breathing trouble when I am training hard, and that is when I need my blue inhaler. I wanted to see if powerbreathe could help with this, so that eventually, I...

Well, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started using the powerbreathe, particularly as I am asthmatic.  Although it affects me less now than it used to when I was a child, I still have trouble doing harder interval sessions on my bike and even heavier and more intense gym sessions can make me more breathless than I'd expect.  I figured the powerbeathe would either kill or cure me!!   I typically do CV work twice a week on my bike, which is mostly endurance work, but more recently I've included intervals.  I also do weights in the gym 2 -3 times per week which is a combination of weight lifting and weight training. I was advised by...

My names Josh Warrell and I’m a Personal Trainer & Master Trainer for various products within the fitness industry such as ViPR & FKPro. During my 3 month trial I will be talking about my experience using the POWERbreathe as a Personal Trainer with a range of clients but mostly the experiences of my mother whose profile you will find below.

Name: Denise Warrell

D.O.B: 16/11/1965

Height: 5ft 9

Weight: 11St

Has suffered with asthma all her life, but most recently in October 2010 suffered multiple Pulmonary Embolisms. She was hospitalised for 2 weeks and could not return to work for 3 months. She now...

Right so after a false start and premature submitting of Journal....daily, the week has come to an end and what a week:

I have taken my PBK3 into work with me every day and due to its sleek light weight design this is a very portable device, it also comes with a nice cloth bag to carry it arround.

After using my POWERbreathe daily I have noticed that my reliance on my asthma inhailers have got less, with the PBK3 there is a digital display which shows you how well your performing and you can track your performance on the device and upload it to your PC.

On Saturday 18 June I took part in a 3 hour Kickboxing / self defence...

Hi everyone I’m back with my 12th journal entry!!  This week has seen the return of the running…still not quite sure why I’ve signed up to do another marathon but hey I have so I better get back in that mind frame asap!  Have to say though it has been a bit of a torture this week….the air quality has been shocking so breathing in itself has been worse never mind trying to run in it as well.

The runs I’ve had have had to be on the coast as that’s about the only place I can catch my breath and there has been more walking than normal but I’m putting that down to the air and my rather lacking motivation!!  Air quality seems to be getting...

21st June 2011

Hi everyone I’m back with my 11th journal entry!! Well this week things are looking up again - well apart from the weather will it ever stop raining!!  Monday I went for a cycle indoors on the interval training option (basically up and down hills) for 10 miles felt ok though I always generally get out of breath when I am doing this!!

Tuesday & Thursday then back to my favourite and combat class….my knee seems to be on the mend as it didn’t hurt at all which is great news.  And then Wednesday I once again took to the bike for more interval training – they say this is pretty good training...

6th June 2011

Hi everyone it’s me with my 9th Journal entry.  Well this week started off great when for a run on Monday and Tuesday just 10k each night and my knee is defiantly getting better as it only started to hurt towards the end of the run on Tuesday which is brilliant news as it was starting to get irritating!!  I’ve given combat a miss this week too in the hope the break would do it good so that’s probably helped as well.

On Wednesday disaster struck I managed to rip off my wobbly toe nail ouuccchhh about covers it!  So since Wednesday I haven’t been able to get socks or trainers in fact any closed...

23rd May 2011

Hi everyone I’m back with my 7th journal entry.  This week hasn’t been too successful for any kind of exercise at all!! My knee had been giving me a bit bother so the only exercise I managed was a 15 mile cycle Monday and Tuesday :-(

I then flew to London to hospital Wednesday night and only got home tonight so I haven’t even managed to use my PowerBreathe machine while I’ve been away.  However the PowerBreathe training must definitely be working as my asthma would definitely be worse with pollution and for all the walking we did and I had very little problem so this is great news for me!!...