Cycling

Apsun Inc, our POWERbreathe friend and distributor in Seoul, South Korea have sent us news that they’ve been working with South Korean track cyclist, Ho Sung Cho from the Seoul Cycling Team. Ho Sung Cho was the national athlete at the Guangzhou Asian Game in 2010 and later in the London Olympics in 2012 where he competed in the Men's Omnium.

In track cycling events the Omnium falls into the category of an Endurance race, as opposed to a Sprint race, and challenges the rider’s stamina with its 6 events raced over two days. Omnium racers train and race hard both on the road and on the track. Apsun Inc will be working with Ho Sung...

Our POWERbreathe friends and distributor in the Netherlands, Trainjelongen, contacted us as they were delighted to see an article about how training your breathing muscles can improve cycling performance. It appeared in the Cycling magazine, ‘Fiets’, which has the largest circulation for cycling magazines in the Benelux.

The reason for their delight? Well the article, originally written by Nick Morgan from Bike Radar/Cycling Plus and translated into Dutch by Fiets magazine for their readership, discusses ‘evidence that improving breathing ability may be more important than previously thought, and that endurance athletes can improve simply by paying attention to their...

Our POWERbreathe friends and distributor in Switzerland have announced that they will be working with ultracyclist Dani Wyss as he trains again for the 2013 Race Across America (RAAM).

Dani is already two-time winner of RAAM, a 3000 mile non-stop cycling challenge which he completed in just 8 days, cycling from the East coast of America to the West Coast. He’s also the 2012 winner of Race Across the West which he won in record time, and he’s also holder of various world records in ultracycling.

Dani’s advice to anyone competing in a sporting challenge is to never try anything new in a competition without having tried it out during training, and...

Our POWERbreathe man, Duncan, recently visited Train Sharp, a POWERbreathe K5 Testing and Performance Centre in Tunbridge Wells.

TrainSharp is an experienced cycle coaching company, able to create bespoke cycling training plans around personal requirements.

Owner Jon Sharples is working in partnership with one of the biggest names in British cycling and former professional cyclist, Sean Yates. Working in partnership, both Jon and Sean have transformed beginners into top Cyclosport riders, helped juniors find pro team placements and good cyclists become even better cyclists.

Sean, former head...

Our friends in the Czech Republic, Speedweaponry, have been busy working on Project POWERbreathe – a cycling talent project. The project, with help from Speedweaponry, supports promising young athletes with POWERbreathe.

First of all the five young athletes and project founder, Radomir Simunek, each had their breathing strength and peak inspiratory flow tested and measured using the POWERbreathe K5 and Breathe-Link software. This was used as a benchmark for analysing improvement. Each was then given their own POWERbreathe Plus (MR) Level 2 so they could start their breathing training straight away.

After 5-weeks’ POWERbreathe training, all...

‘Breathe deep, ride easy’ is an article featured in the latest Cycling Fitness magazine that looks at ways to add extra power to your cycling, and features our very own POWERbreathe.

Chris Sidwells, the article’s author, begins with the notion that we may be taking the muscles that power our breathing for granted. If cycling makes us out of breath then that should be enough, shouldn’t it? Well not quite…

Chris explains how when your brain registers that you’re struggling to breathe, it diverts oxygen from your peripheral muscles, such as your legs for example while cycling, to your breathing muscles. “If this happens when you are cycling it...

My name is Ben Hund and I was diagnosed with Alpha 1 induced emphysema and COPD, 3 years ago. What a nice wake up call! Fast forward to today and I finally feel like I have come to terms with this disease mentally and physically. A little background is in order.

I have always been extremely active and raced bicycles on and off for the past 6 years. Last year, I tried to race. By “trying to race”, I was able to hang with the pack for a lap, only to get dropped and to finish the race by myself. That wasn’t a lot of fun if you’re the least bit competitive! At the end of the season a friend who knew of my condition told me about...