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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.

Gi Ka Man has been using...

More great news from our POWERbreathe friends in the Czech Republic, TruconneXion.

Last week, on the biggest Czech triathlon website www.etriatlon.cz, young amateur triathlete, Lukáš Netík’s wrote about his positive experience of POWERbreathe training.

Lukáš started POWERbreathe inspiratory muscle training in 2011 on his Level 2 Medium Resistance (MR) model. With regular training he gradually increased the resistance load as his breathing muscles became stronger, but he soon got used to this increase in strength.

"I admit that although I trained according to the instructions, it was usually only once a day....

Running is a form of aerobic exercise. Quite literally, 'aerobic' means 'with oxygen'. We need to breathe to get oxygen into the lungs.  Although this sounds obvious, some runners have a shallow or laboured breathing style.  However, there are some cases where this style of breathing results in severe muscle cramps, side stitches, poor performance or premature fatigue. Not only that, shallow breathing can also result in anxiety, which can be counter-productive if you run for relaxation. Anxiety also causes physical tension which can result in a loss of energy - resulting in less energy for your workout.

Deep Breathing

The majority of runners only use...

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...

At the age of 6 months, the Doctors diagnosed me with Cystic Fibrosis. CF is a hereditary disease of the lungs and pancreas, resulting in more mucus production and the inability to produce digestive enzymes. Not only do I produce more mucus, but it is also thicker. Therefore, it is harder to get the mucus up.

I was given a life expectancy of 10 years of age. My 10th birthday came, and the age was changed to 18. I'm 26 now, so I think the Doctors have given up guessing.

Having Cystic Fibrosis means doing airway clearance every single day. Christmas Day and Birthdays are days in which shouldn't be ignored as it’s a...

Here is an excellent blog from one of our bloggers Melissa Brand. Beat your Best winner 2011, Melissa Brand has just finished the Marine Corps Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Las Vegas, Henderson Nevada, in just under a week. Melissa earned the right to participate in the championship when qualifying at an Ironman 70.3 event this year. Read this amazing blog to read all about it. Some great pictures too.

September 9th seemed to come around much sooner than expected.  My preparation for the event commenced way back in autumn 2011, when I started a comprehensive strength and conditioning programme.  The most important element of this was...

So while we've all been getting on with our own things these past couple of days, Andy and Lotte have been running for Team POWERbreathe UK starting on 31st August from Ruhpolding (GER) to St. Johann in Tirol (AUT)  - 49,6 km, 1.663 Hm climb, 1667 Hm descent - and Stage 1 of the Gore-Tex Transalpine-Run. Showing impressive times for such a challenge, Andy and Lotte's running time results were 6.34.43,0, finishing 21st mixed team out of 76!

Since then Andy and Lotte have taken on Stage 2, running from St. Johann in Tirol (AUT) to Kitzbühel (AUT) 34,8 km, 1849 Hm climb, 1742 Hm descent in 6.09.29,3 and 6.09.28,9...

Spare a thought and offer your support for two of your POWERbreathe community athletes – Andy and Lotte, racing as POWERbreathe UK– as they take on the Gore-Tex Transalpine-Run.

A real sporting challenge, this transalpine run has 8 stages, numerous summits that are reached off the beaten track along rocky paths and 3000 metre-high passes.

 

Here’s a bit about the race…which makes you really feel for Andy and Lotte and all participants:

 Start in teams of 2 4 categories 8 days 8 stages over the Alps 9 stage towns 3 countries Approximately 320KM horizontal distance Approximately 15,000 meters climb

And as if that...

Ian Locke, founder of Thrive Personal Training in Swindon, provides personal training in a private gym as well as nutritional analysis to help clients reach their health and fitness goals.

Here he tells us how he’s been getting on with his second week of POWERbreathe K5 training…

So the second week of my POWERbreathe training is complete, but there isn’t a lot of progress to report. In fact, my test results regressed slightly this week, but then that can sometimes be expected with muscle development. Now that I’ve got a bit of history in the Breathe-link PC software, I’ve been trying to make sense of the charts, but my results are all up...

Ian Locke, founder of Thrive Personal Training in Swindon, provides personal training in a private gym as well as nutritional analysis to help clients reach their health and fitness goals.

Here he talks about how and why he came to use the POWERbreathe inspiratory muscle training device, and shares his first experience of using it. In future reports we’ll learn of his progress, so please keep coming back to check on how Ian’s breathing training is going on his POWERbreathe K5...

"As someone who has tried their hand at running, high intensity interval training, boxing and playing a wind instrument, I’ve become more conscious in recent months that the limiting...