Try this breathing warm-up, and got any breathing problems?

To warm-up during your next training session, try this:

With a stationary bike, start pedaling for 30 seconds while only breathing through your nose; your inhales and exhales should be the same times, e.g. 3, 4, or even 5 seconds at a time.

Then move to inhaling through your nose harder, with an easy exhale through your nose, while pedaling for 30 seconds.

Then transition to inhaling and exhaling hard through your nose while pedaling another 30 seconds.

After that, then inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth while pedaling for another 30 seconds.

Finally, inhale and exhale through your mouth while pedaling for 30 seconds.

You should have felt an increase in the effort you were pedaling for as you transitioned your breathing patterns.

Breathing Gear 1: Inhale nose / exhale nose (equal timing)
Breathing Gear 2: Inhale nose hard / exhale nose easy
Breathing Gear 3: Inhale nose hard / exhale nose hard
Breathing Gear 4: Inhale nose hard / exhale mouth easy
Breathing Gear 5: Inhale mouth / exhale mouth

After doing that warm-up, then your mind and body should be primed for using both holes (nose and mouth) to breathe, and at different intensities, which you’ll use in varying capacities in whatever training session you have planned.

If you’ve got any breathing-related problems, like (Exercise-Induced) Asthma, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, or if you even suffer from Anxiety, or Chronic Stress, then it might be due to how (much) you’re breathing.

We can address your skill of breathing, by using the right muscles, tissues, and bones, and not the ones that are compensating, which might be leading to some of the issues you’re experiencing today.

What we need to do when we breathe is to let our diaphragm do its job properly and fully. Our ribcage and intercostals need to work in conjunction with our diaphragm to allow our lungs to properly expand and contract. By letting our ribcage open up properly, we create more room for our lungs to expand, to allow for the air we inhale to be more fully processed in them.

There below are a couple of reasons why we might not be able to open up more space for our lungs:

Our knowledge and application of our control of our diaphragm might not be as full.

Our muscles and tissues might be too tight or bound up, restricting motion and the expansion of our ribcage.

By learning and addressing those above, we might be able to more effectively solve the problems like you might be having, like Asthma, Anxiety, and Sleep Apnea.

We have techniques to learn and use, and tools to assist us in breathing more properly, to solve our breathing-related problems.

Come to our Breathing Clinic to learn techniques and use tools to start taking a stab at the issues you are facing today!

You will receive 2 tools to walk away with and use as part of your tuition for the Clinic.

When: Saturday, December 5th, 2020
9:00AM-11:00AM
Where: Idahome Movement Academy
8324 W Vincent St
Boise, ID 83709
How (much): $40
Who: You (limited to 9 Students)
What (to bring): Yourself, Paper and Writing Instrument, Comfortable Clothes to move around in, Water
Why: To learn and improve