Events

Alphamed, our POWERbreathe friend and distributor in Italy, is this weekend working with Fispin Academy on a Spinning and POWERbreathe Educational Training day in Pisa.

As inspiratory muscle training with POWERbreathe has been shown to improve cycling performance and breathing stamina, the aim of the course is to educate both amateurs and professionals about POWERbreathe IMT, with specific POWERbreathe training protocols for Spinning.

The training day will alternate between theoretical sessions and practical sessions performed with POWERbreathe on Spin bikes.

Educational topics will include the history of...

Terry Tang from Healthcare & Co., our POWERbreathe distributor and friend in Hong Kong, held a seminar recently in Hong Kong that was presented by special guest Professor Tom Tong who major’s in respiratory physiology and discussed breathing, exercise, and breathing during exercise, specifically running.

Over 170 people attended the seminar where the benefits of POWERbreathe were presented and discussed. At the end of the seminar in the evening a training session was held with a running club which included a POWERbreathe training session with Gi Ka Man – record holder for the Hong Kong half marathon.

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Our POWERbreathe distributor and friend in the Czech Republic, Truconnexion, attended ‘For Bikes’ in Prague, the fourth annual bike trade fair. It was a weekend long event featuring everything a bike lover could want, including POWERbreathe!

At the Trueconnexion booth they ran a POWERbreathe challenge where over 150 curious visitors tested their breathing strength using the Single Breath Test on the POWERbreathe K5. Competition was fierce, and the scores were:

Best Male – 197cm H2O Best Female – 126cm H2O

Congratulations to...

Nick Gillingham MBE is a double Olympic medallist swimmer, former World, European and Commonwealth Champion setting 3 World, 10 European, 9 Commonwealth and 17 British Records for his breaststroke events…so he knows a thing or two about swimming.

Following this successful swimming career, Nick is now involved in all levels of swimming coaching, from his very own swimming academy to working alongside government bodies. He offers detailed swimming coaching including swimming courses, swimming training plans, his swim academy, online resources and carefully selected solutions to help improve swimming technique, strength, endurance, speed and recovery…one of...

Frontiers in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine: Mechanisms underlying improvements in exercise tolerance following inspiratory muscle training

This will be the 3rd seminar in a series of seminars launched by The Centre for Sports Medicine & Human Performance at Brunel University. The seminar is free and will focus on the respiratory system.

With systematic reviews and meta-analyses having confirmed that inspiratory muscle training (IMT) does improve exercise tolerance in both healthy people and people with lung and/or heart disease, the focus of research on IMT is now shifting from “if”, to “how”,...

Frontiers in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine is a series of seminars launched by The Centre for Sports Medicine & Human Performance at Brunel University and is set to address important questions in the fields of cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, biomechanics and psychology of sport and exercise.

The seminar series is free and open to everyone with an academic interest in sports and exercise science and medicine.

Seminar 3: Mechanisms underlying improvements in exercise tolerance following inspiratory muscle training

takes place on Wednesday, 24th April 2013 (Heinz Wolff Building, Room...

POWERbreathe attended this incredible event alongside Borut Strel, Martin Strel’s son. Martin, aka ‘Big River Man’ (he swam the Amazon River), is a Slovenian long-distance swimmer – and long-time POWERbreathe user! His son Borut operates Strel Swimming Adventures, and Duncan from POWERbreathe was delighted to team up alongside him at this extreme event.

It was the 5th UK Cold Water Championships with 600 swimmers from across the world braving the frosty 0.5C water temperature.

The event is held every two years at Tooting Bec Lido and is ‘a celebration of British masochism and funny hats’.  Full of enthusiastic and sometimes eccentric swimmers,...

12th august and we had a date at Desford for the annual triathlon that takes place.  such a great venue and hooray the sun was shining so overall a good start to the event! Even better almost 200 competitors turned up to participate.

POWERbreathe sponsored the event and we had exposure on their website, race numbers, as well as on t-shirts which were given to all the finishers. Goody bags were also given out with leaflets in them and all results are to be sent to all the Triathlon media for inclusion on their results pages generating more awareness.

Overall the triathlon at Desford was an excellent day for POWERbreathe.  Many people took part...

Henley Classic now taking place on 8th July.

The Henley Classic is a 2.1km endurance upstream River Thames swimming event, held over the Henley Royal Regatta course, and our very own Duncan from POWERbreathe will be there for the 4.30am start (he gets all the good jobs!).

Please pop over to the POWERbreathe gazebo and see him as he’ll have camped overnight so as not to miss the early birds. He’ll be demonstrating the POWERbreathe K-Series as well as having the POWERbreathe Plus on sale.

Ignoring his tired and dishevelled look (he’d have spent the night in his tent after all), you could test out your breathing strength against others – the K5 just...

The Keswick festival was very busy and had something for everyone.

There were talks by celebrities such as Chris Bonnington, Helen Skelton, Monty Hall etc. which took place in a meeting room in the town.

Talks also took place in a giant wigwam on the outdoor site where we had our stand.  I did two POWERbreathe talks, one on Friday and one on Sunday.  Both went well and led to sales.  One couple said that they had cycled 5 miles just to hear me and bought a POWERbreathe.  Most people would cycle 5 miles just to get away from me talking!!

We spread the word quite widely about POWERbreathe, as there were people from...