Monthly Archives: January 2012

Recently our Duncan was on yet another trip abroad, lucky him getting to go on all these 'jolly boy's outings' while we slave away at POWERbreathe HQ.

Anyway, joking aside it is all work really......

Duncan's last trip was to Slovenia to go and see the POWERbreathe Distributor    In Tact Group.  Whilst there he was introduced to Martin Strel AKA known as Big River Man. Martin Strel is a legendary Guinness record marathon swimmer, who has always been looking for the challenges of impossible and the Amazon was the recent one. On April 7th, 2007 Martin Strel completed his epic Amazon river swim all the way...

POWERbreathe first came to my attention many years ago when one of my patients who suffered breathing difficulties brought one to clinic and said that it had helped his breathing condition more than any of the inhalers he’d been given.  As his nurse I wasn’t in a position to tell him to throw them out and stick with the POWERbreathe but I think that’s what he probably did!

After that I started thinking about what a POWERbreathe could do for anyone with a pair of lungs - or even only 1 lung but for some reason it’s taken until now for me to get my own POWERbreathe. I’ve been using the Fitness Plus model for nearly 4 weeks.

Because I’m a bit of a saddo...

I’ve paid for my last month as a member to my gym. Don’t worry I am not giving up my exercises; I will do them elsewhere on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. They put up the membership and I couldn’t justify it to myself. Luckily I do my Pilates elsewhere, so no change there. Surprisingly, or maybe not, my POWERbreathe helps me with my Pilates and I seem to have enough stamina throughout our full-on hour – EXCELLENT!

Just a little disappointment at the end of the week, I had an impromptu meet up with one of my sisters at Bicester Village (a shopping spree!) and I was shattered afterwards. I suppose a combination of not sleeping well at night and...

My name is Darren Peacock and I am a Corporal in the Royal Air Force for the past 15 years.

My Job as a Survival Equipment Fitter involves working with adhesives and Isocyanates so every 12 months I have to take a COSHH medical with involves a peak flow test.

I was looking for a way of improving my results and remember I had seen a Powerbreathe product in the Argos catalogue some years back so decided to buy one.

I also stopped smoking on New Year's day 2011 and started running, last year I took part in 2 half Marathons and a number of 10k runs.

On the 22nd of this month I am deploying to Afghanistan for 4...

Well I’m still plugging away and about to reach a big milestone.  Half way which means I will have done once around the equator.  I can’t really comprehend how much has taken to get there but I wont of been able to do it without a lot of support.  My POWERbreathe comes in very handy especially with the early starts as the 30 breaths routine helps me with my warm up.

The nice thing in the run up to Christmas was not having many events to do, this meant I could focus on my cycling.  I did run the Southampton leg of the BUCs indoors series which went well.  Cycling up to Christmas involved a lot of very long 12-15 hour days.  Like wise after Christmas involves...

Recently the POWERbreathe team headed off to Canada for a training session with our newest distributor Roxon Med Tech.

Roxon were founded in 1975 and are a 100% Canadian owned corporation that is totally committed to supplying specialised equipment to medical facilities across America with their main focus being Cardiac, Respiratory and Neurology equipment.

Both Harry our MD and Jon headed off to Canada to train Roxon.

We have uploaded some pictures of our visit and they can be seen over on the POWERbreathe Official Facebook page. Although, it was mightly cold in Canada our guys and the team at Roxon seemed to have enjoyed the training session.

Well what a busy few days POWERbreathe had at the London Bike Show.  Duncan and Emma represented the POWERbreathe team and deemed it a success.

We set up a POWERbreathe training and assessment centre.

You may wonder how we ended up at the show, well here is how we did.  Future is the largest Cycling publisher responsible for the following titles:

Well, they asked one of our customers Koolstoff of Exeter if they could pull together a very professional cycle training hub for the show to scientifically assess people and...