The 4-4-8 breathing technique is a basic breathing technique which is designed to help you relax and focus. This technique is great if you feel stressed or tense. Using this technique will help you get rid of the tension so you can focus on what you need to do. No matter what your goal is,
Weak inspiratory muscles can be the result of a number of causes, including disease, but the amount of ‘exercise’ they receive has a huge influence upon their condition. We use the phrase ‘use it or lose it’ to describe the best way to off-set problems that come with ageing, such as completing crosswords to keep
With research papers and meta-analyses having shown the scientific benefits of training your inspiratory muscles with POWERbreathe for fitness and sports, health and lifestyle and medical issues related to breathing problems, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to think then that training your expiratory muscles as well would be better still. Research to date however
The diaphragm and chest wall muscles act together like a bellows to pump air in and out of the chest. To breathe in these muscles contract to expand the chest cavity, causing a pressure drop into which the air flows. To breathe out, you simply relax these ‘inspiratory’ muscles and the chest springs back forcing
You may be asking yourself why you need to improve your breathing. It’s a fair question. After all, at rest, you take 12 – 16 breaths per minute without even thinking about it. So just imagine what your breathing would be like if you were to start thinking about how you do it. Here you’ll find
As a baby you’ll have taken deep, relaxing breaths into your abdomen without thinking about it. It came naturally. But with age, life’s stresses and strains can have a toll on your body. Consequently, without realising it, you’ll start breathing incorrectly. Furthermore, as you get older these stresses and strains may start to interfere with
This is the third in a series of blogs where we look at explaining how breathing training with POWERbreathe has a positive effect on your breathing muscles. In this blog we’re looking at your respiratory control centre which resides at the base of your brain and controls your breathing by sending signals down your spine
Following on from our previous blog, POWERbreathe and Your Respiratory System, it seems natural to look next at what physically happens when you breathe, so in this blog we’ll be looking at inhalation (breathing in) and exhalation (breathing out). We’ll then look at how POWERbreathe helps you strengthen the muscles you use to breathe in,
In order to explain how breathing training with POWERbreathe has a positive effect on your breathing muscles, benefiting you by increasing their strength, power and endurance, we thought we’d create a series of micro blogs. These blogs will provide a brief overview of your respiratory system, what physically happens when you breathe and what controls
The importance of your respiratory rate According to research, respiratory rate is often not recorded in many hospitals when other vital signs are, and yet there is evidence that an abnormal respiratory rate “is the most significant predictor of critical illness”. Research conducted by Birmingham City Hospital confirmed that respiratory rate is an early indicator of
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