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SKU: PB7002
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is a hand-held, drug-free breathing device for Expiratory Muscle Training (EMT). It is light and easy to use and exercises your expiratory muscles to enhance your expiratory muscle structure and function. By using it daily, you will improve your expiratory muscle strength and endurance.
It exercises your expiratory muscles at an intermediate level to improve your expiratory muscle strength and endurance.
£59.99
Description
Whereas POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) trains your inspiratory muscles to become stronger, Expiratory muscle training (EMT) targets your expiratory muscles to become stronger. EMT exercises your expiratory muscles, including your abdominals. Your expiratory muscles are the ones you use when you forcefully breathe out, such as coughing, during extreme exercise, singing or when playing a wind instrument. The stronger they are, the more endurance they will have.
Who Is Expiratory Muscle Training For?
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is designed to improve the strength and endurance of your expiratory muscles.
Your expiratory muscles play an active role in breathing, particularly during extreme exercise and sports training. This is because your abdominal muscles are expiratory. Stronger expiratory muscles and abdominal muscles help to control your body when you run, twist and turn, such as in explosive power sports. Furthermore, with stronger expiratory muscles you are able to sustain a more prolonged physical effort, such as when competing. Finally, stronger muscles also help to prevent sports injuries.
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is useful to sportspeople wishing to improve their sports performance. This is because maximal expiratory pressure (MEP) along with maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) provides an insight into the breathing muscle endurance of an athlete. A sportsperson is able to improve both these measures by using expiratory muscle strength training (for MEP) and inspiratory muscle training (for MIP).
Finally, your expiratory muscles also play a role in breathing control and the flow of breath in singers and wind musicians.
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR expiratory muscle training is for:
How Expiratory Muscle Training Works
POWERbreathe EMT devices use expiratory ‘pressure threshold’ loading to exercise your expiratory muscles. This is like weightlifting. The weight is provided by the internal, precisely calibrated ‘medium resistance’ spring which provides a breathing load to your expiratory muscles. Because the breathing loads are precisely calibrated, you can be confident that the intensity of your breathing training is quantifiable and appropriate.
The handle on the POWERbreathe EX1-MR features an adjustable dial. This is where you increase (or decrease) the resistance to your out-breath. It. is marked on training levels from 0 to 10, with 0 offering the least resistance and 10 the most.
The calibrated, spring-loaded valve requires you to produce an expiratory pressure (breath out) that is sufficient to overcome the breathing load you set. At this point, the valve then opens and you can hear a rushing of air as you exhale through the device. The valve will then close completely as soon as the pressure is less than the breathing load you set.
If, however, you do not produce enough expiratory force, the spring-loaded, pressure-threshold valve will remain closed, and no air will flow through the device. This means that the training level you have set (and therefore breathing load) is too much for your expiratory muscles at this point in your training. You can easily reduce the load slightly by turning the training level down on the handle.
How To Do Expiratory Muscle Training
When you generate enough power and force as you breathe out, the spring-loaded valve opens at the load you set using the training levels. This then allows you to breathe out through the device.
The typical training protocol for expiratory muscle training is 5 x 5 x 5 (5 x exhales, 5 times a day, for 5 days a week):
When you find your training becomes easier to perform, it means your expiratory muscles have become stronger and require more of a challenge. You can challenge them further by increasing the resistance using the adjustable dial on the handle. You can increase the training level by a full turn, but it might be better if you turn the dial a quarter-turn first to assess if this is enough of an increase in resistance.
Training Diary
POWERbreathe EX1 Training Diary
Adjustable Load Setting Range
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What's In The Box?
The following items come as standard with every POWERbreathe EX1 EMT purchase:
Precautions & Contraindications
Please also see Medical Precautions (below).
Reviews (2)
Trevor – October 30, 2023
If you are use to IMT training on blue what would the recommended starting level be for EMT?
Weider (verified owner) – February 7, 2023
Hi, I recently purchased an EMT and a IMT from yourselves. Do you have any suggestions as to how one would incorporate EMT training with IMT training? Thank you!
Vanessa Potter – July 25, 2023
Hello Weider and thank you for your enquiry. It is recommended that the two types of training aren’t performed concurrently. This is because the concurrent loading of IMT and EMT cycles on your breathing is very uncomfortable. It is also extremely difficult to train with maximal effort when loading both breathing phases and because of this, IMT and EMT at the same time generate suboptimal improvements in respiratory muscle strength. So it is better to perform the two types of training independently of each other, which you would be doing with an IMT device and an EMT device. Regarding training, you can perform IMT and EMT on the same day but we suggest that you do it at different times throughout the day, with sessions evenly spaced out, rather than immediately after one another. This will give your inspiratory muscles and your expiratory muscles time to recover between training sessions.
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