POWERbreathe – Improve Indoor Rowing Performance

• Improved rowing time trial performance by up to 2.2% which, equivalent to slashing 60m in a 2km race
• Increased strength of inspiratory muscles by 30 – 50%
• POWERbreathe warm-up significantly improves rowing performance and reduces breathlessness in competitive rowers

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POWERbreathe – Improves Indoor Rowing Performance

• Improved rowing time trial performance by up to 2.2% which, equivalent to slashing 60m in a 2km race
• Increased strength of inspiratory muscles by 30 – 50%
• POWERbreathe warm-up significantly improves rowing performance and reduces breathlessness in competitive rowers

POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training & Indoor Rowing

“Rowing has a high respiratory demand, which means that your breathing muscles fatigue early. Prevailing science suggests that this high respiratory demand ‘steals’ blood from your legs during rowing which reduces your overall rowing performance (Harms et al. Journal of Applied Physiology, 82). By strengthening your breathing muscles blood flow, demand by the respiratory muscles is reduced, cardiac output to your leg muscles is increased and therefore your performance will improve.

The likelihood of inspiratory muscle fatigue increases with intensity of exercise above 85% of maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) (Johnson et al. Journal of Physiology, 460). If you are a competitive indoor rower a significant amount of your training will be carried out above this level and during the main body of a 2000 m race or time trial you will be working above 90% of your VO2max.

We know that breathing does limit performance, however the limitations can be significantly overcome by training the respiratory system, specifically the breathing (inspiratory) muscles.” Eddie Fletcher MSc. “POWERbreathe Guide for Indoor Rowers.” Concept2 Ltd. 2006

POWERbreathe training specifically targets the breathing muscles, strengthening them by around 30-50%, significantly improving rowing performance and helping to eliminate breathing fatigue.

Train smarter, not harder, to perform better.

Resources:

• POWERbreathe Guide for Indoor Rowers
• Breathing During Rowing

• Indoor Rowing: POWERbreathe Training Protocols - COMING SOON!

Research:

Links to research papers, published in peer-reviewed, high quality scientific journals. As well as original studies, we have also included some articles that review IMT; these have been written by experts in this field of research.

Inspiratory Muscle Training

• Entraînement de la force des muscles inspiratoires chez le sujet sportif amateur (Inspiratory muscles strength training in recreational athletes)
• Inspiratory muscle training enhances pulmonary O2 uptake kinetics and high-intensity exercise tolerance in humans
• The inspiratory muscle training in elite rowers.
• Inspiratory muscle training improves rowing performance.
• The influence of inspiratory and expiratory muscle training upon rowing performance.

Warm-up and Cool-down

• Inspiratory resistive loading after all-out exercise improves subsequent performance.
• Specific respiratory warm-up improves rowing performance and exertional dyspnoea.
• Blood lactate during recovery from intense exercise: impact of inspiratory loading.
• Inspiratory muscle training reduces blood lactate concentration during volitional hyperpnoea.

Exercise-induced Inspiratory Muscle Fatigue

• Inspiratory muscle training improves rowing performance.
• Influence of environmental temperature on exercise-induced inspiratory muscle fatigue.
• Aerobic fitness effects on exercise-induced low-frequency diaphragm fatigue.
• Exercise-induced diaphragmatic fatigue in healthy humans.
• A comparison of inspiratory muscle fatigue following maximal exercise in moderately trained males and females.

Miscellaneous

• Development of respiratory muscle contractile fatigue in the course of hyperpnoea.
• Inspiratory muscle training attenuates the human respiratory muscle metaboreflex.
• Development and evaluation of a pressure threshold inspiratory muscle trainer for use in the context of sports performance.
• Specificity and reversibility of inspiratory muscle training.
• Inspiratory muscle training: a simple cost-effective treatment for inspiratory stridor.

Review Articles

• Inspiratory muscle training and endurance: a central metabolic control perspective.
• Does training of respiratory muscles affect exercise performance in healthy subjects?
• Respiratory muscle energetics during exercise in healthy subjects and patients with COPD.
• Respiratory muscle training in healthy humans: resolving the controversy.