Tag Archives: POWERbreathe training

Terry Tang from Healthcare & Co., our POWERbreathe friends in Hong Kong, are delighted to share the news that their POWERbreathe athlete Gi Ka Man came first in the ASICS Hong Kong 10k Challenge on 4th November! Congratulations Gi Ka Man for a fantastic race time!

Gi Ka Man, founder and Head Coach of the Hong Kong running club, Runners Athletic Club, has been using POWERbreathe since 2009 and has been training with Professor Tong whose major area is in respiratory physiology but who also has an interest in health-related physical fitness.

Gi Ka Man is also the record holder for the Hong Kong half marathon – winning by a...

I realise that I haven't updated my PB Blog in a while, having had a really disappointing run in London, I took a few weeks off training. However, after a few days I was chomping at the bit to make myself even better and I have taken this new enthusiasm into my training over the last month and a bit and really enjoying running again.

After any big race, especially the marathon, you always feel a bit flat and it takes time to get back into your running, The first 2 - 3 weeks when I come back from marathon training are some of the most horrible running weeks I ever have. Whereas before the marathon you feel like you are floating on air, the legs just feel heavy...

Josephine is a long-time POWERbreathe user, loyal friend of POWERbreathe and a valued athlete to us all here at POWERbreathe Towers.

Josephine has over time provided in-depth feedback on her training, including her POWERbreathe training, and the benefits and achievements she's made as a result. Please read all Josephine's posts here as they make for a very interesting and inspiring read.

Here are just a few additional posts Josephine has made on the POWERbreathe Facebook page which she shared with all POWERbreathe friends:

16 April 2012

"My coach estimated a sharp Personal Best within my grasp if I can...

It's been quite a while since I last wrote a blog post for POWERbreathe. The truth is, I've been so busy that I simply haven't had time to sit down and put it all down on paper. I've posted a number of my greatest moments from the current indoor season on POWERbreathe's Facebook page, so some of you may recognise bits and pieces here and there. I hope you enjoy reading this anyway. Happy reading everybody.

Since I last blogged, a lot has happened. For starters, I was out with a shin injury for two weeks after a failed jump exercises at the track mid December. The cut was deep, so the wound required 2...

My cerebella tremors have been a real pain and I have been feeling quite exhausted. But I know when I start feeling like this the best answer is to exercise and hopefully it will pass. Mind you sometimes that’s easier said than done. My POWERbreathe routine even got hit, I just felt so exhausted. But I promise you, you WILL hear a difference next week.

I hope you all had a good valentine and got spoilt rotten.

It's been a quiet week, just doing my exercises and going to my physio session - it really is amazing/staggering how my posture just goes for no apparent reason.

I have slowed down a bit, especially with the colder weather. I know my body is concentrating on keeping me warm. I just hope this week the icy roads don’t prevent me from going out in the car. I have Pilates, physio and a haircut to get to, all three in the morning but on three separate days.

Luckily I have my POWERbreathe that doesn’t require any travelling in order to do it!

I'll let you know how my week went in my next blog post. I hope you all stay safe in this icy weather.

Madeline

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...

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...