How do you breathe when you work out?

Always always always inhale through your nose and exhale through the mouth. By inhaling through the nose, you will be utilizing Nitric Oxide, which helps open your blood vessels and will improve the oxygen consumption rate in your lungs by nearly 20% more than when you mouth breathe.

How does breath holding increase the oxygen in your blood and improve athletic performance?

When you hold your breath, your brain sends a signal to your spleen - which is your "blood bank" - to release more oxygen into your bloodstream because you affront inhaling any. After about 15 seconds of a breath hold, inhale (through the nose) and return to normal breathing for a minute or so. When you complete 6-8 rounds of that, you will have the amount of oxygen in your blood that is equivalent to training at a high altitude. This is where you will get an increase in energy, muscular endurance and focus.

When is it not safe to do breathwork exercises?

When you are behind the wheel or in a body of water (even the bathtub). Dizziness and light-headedness are a few of the side effects that could happen when you do breathwork exercises. You don't want to be driving or in a pool and become dizzy or light-headed.

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A quick explanation of breathwork

"Breathwork" refers to any type of breathing exercise that is used to improve so many aspects of your health. Doing different combinations of breath holds, breathing faster, breathing slower, nasal breathing, and mouth breathing are all different modalities to help improve your athletic performance and improve your chill by simply using your breath. Improvements that you can experience by doing Breathwork include a decrease in-

• Blood Pressure
• Heart Rate
• Cortisol
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks and PTSD
• Chronic Pain and Inflammation
• Acid Reflux

And an increase in-

• Oxygen delivery to your blood. Oxygen = Energy
• Power, speed and endurance
• Quality of Sleep
• Metabolism
• Toxin Release
• Self-Esteem
• Clarity and Focus

Each breathwork exercise has proven results that are catered to each individual or group and their goals with doing breathwork.

A modern approach

Breathing exercises and manipulations that will be personalized to fit your goals, whether its a team sport or a solo activity. From quick 2-minute exercises to an hour or more, doing breathwork will give you such a positive change that you will be wondering why you haven't started doing breathwork earlier.

The diaphragm is a muscle, just like your glutes and pecs. By training your diaphragm to become stronger gives your respiratory system an advantage over your opponent by giving you more power, speed and endurance. Breathletics utilizes the benefits of The Sportmask (see pic) to strengthen your breathing muscles, which is guaranteed to improve your true athletic potential.

Along with mastering diaphragmatic breathwork and doing strengthening exercises for it, you will understand the importance of Nitric Oxide via nasal breathing, and why it is so vitally important.

You will learn all about your own B.O.L.T. score - Body Oxygen Level Test - and why it is so important to work on for getting dramatic improvements in sports performance.

Breath manipulation is an integral part of any sport...after working with a Breathletics instructor, you will be able to add up to 20% - TWENTY PERCENT - more oxygen delivery to your muscles. That brings extra energy to your muscles, which brings you more power, speed, and endurance during the sport you are playing.

Lactic Acid is the enemy of the athlete. The quicker that lactic acid builds up, the quicker the athlete loses power, speed and endurance. With the Breathletics Athletic Breathwork program, you will learn how to manipulate your breathing to help delay the onset of lactic acid build-up. This has been proven to give the athlete more power output, strength and endurance for longer than the athletes who do not do breathwork.

Breathwork exercises have scientifically proven results that will be catered to each individual, group or team to maximize their results with breathwork.

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