{"id":119064,"date":"2021-07-29T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powerbreat1dev.wpenginepowered.com\/powerbreathe-for-athletes\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:22:49","slug":"powerbreathe-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powerbreathe.com\/us\/blog\/powerbreathe-for-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"POWERbreathe For Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research<\/a> (2021) finds that the use of POWERbreathe for athletes is useful for stimulating sports performance and increasing pulmonary function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with respiratory muscle fatigue in athletes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Athletes will train intensively and for prolonged periods. Such intense training increases respiratory muscle work. As a result, an athlete’s breathing muscle endurance decreases, inducing breathing fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increase in inspiratory muscle work during intense training will affect blood flow to other muscles. This is the process of respiratory muscle metaboreflex. Basically, metaboreflex is where the body restricts blood flow to the limbs that are active during training when the breathing muscles fatigue. You can read more about this in Respiratory Muscle-Induced Metaboreflex<\/a>. This is why breathing muscle fatigue is an endurance limiting factor for athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get more energy with less effort<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Is this possible? Well, this research<\/a> shows that it is. Just from improving the strength and stamina of your breathing muscles with POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT). After 6 weeks of performing 30 inspiratory breaths twice a day, 6 days a week using POWERbreathe IMT, there were improvements in the following (see Fig.1. below):<\/p>\n\n\n\n