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Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)

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Re: Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (2018)

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Post by blurbleblurble »

nradov wrote: post #42
blurbleblurble wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! Breathing like that will purge carbon dioxide from your blood more quickly and result in higher oxygen levels. There are some really powerful exercises based on oxygen breathing in quite a few different traditions. Some names I've heard of are "holotropic breathing", "circular breathing", "breath of fire", "round breathing", "bioenergetics breathing", and "Wim Hoff method". Wilhelm Reich made use of oxygen incre…

I don't use any particular breathing technique and my blood oxygen saturation is typically very close to 100%, just like most other people without lung disease. If you're getting benefits from breath work then that's great, but it's not because of oxygen levels.

Good point! I was thinking in terms of oxygen/CO2 balance. But strictly speaking, I realize your right in that hyperventilating won't actually increase absolute oxygen levels.

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Post by djmips »

ninenines wrote: post #16

Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it, Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and g…

That was quite helpful thanks.

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Post by AlexCoventry »

readarticle wrote: post #48
WalterBright wrote: post #46

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> we pull in stomach when inhaling Wat? My stomach goes out when I inhale. I could not find any way to pull in my stomach and inhale.

Simply “fill” your chest while inhaling and your stomach can’t not go in. Imagine a cartoon of someone taking a deep breath before blowing out a candle or something.

It's unhealthy but anatomically possible to breathe while your abdomen is pulled in. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319924

Try it. You end up breathing using your rib cage instead of your diaphragm.

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Post by AlexCoventry »

aggie wrote: post #38

I wonder if this is trending because people figure you might be able to strengthen your diaphragm as a precautionary measure in case of contracting COVID-19. Anyway, if anyone is interested in a practical application from a scholarly source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2971640/

I started jogging recently for exactly this reason. (Usually, I just walk.)

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Post by aesyondu »

ninenines wrote: post #16

Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it, Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and g…

> And yes everyone breathes the wrong way, we pull in stomach when inhaling which is supposed to be otherway round

This statement confused me, so just to be clear, this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNnKVGxabA demonstrates the correct way to breathe right?

Wrong - pull in stomach (breathe with chest)

Right - expand stomach

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Post by alialghamdi »

WalterBright wrote: post #45
sriram_malhar wrote: post #43

I wanted to improve my presentation skills. I felt my voice was too nasal and thin, I spoke too fast, and emphasised too many words. So I approached a voice training coach. It seems everything -- from delivery, pauses, speed of delivery to sore throats -- could be improved if one could pay attention to proper breath control, and diaphragmatic breathing. I can certainly attest to that.

I went looking for a voice coach. All I could find were singing coaches and autistic speech therapy ones. Nobody who could coach me at giving presentations. How did you find yours?

I didn't take courses, but as far as I know proper breathing techniques are also taught by singing coaches, if that's what you are looking for.

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Post by celnardur »

This reminds me of some of the exercises I did during marching band and Drum Corps. We were taught, like the article says, to breathe by expanding the abs and then use the abs and diaphragm to push the air out through the instrument. In both, we used breathing gym techniques developed by Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan. Here's a video of them demonstrating some of the exercises we did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEz0ku-oXM4

These exercises definitely helped me prepare my lungs for the stress of what is essentially running and playing a brass instrument at the same time for ten minutes. Even though they are meant for Marching Band and Drum Corps, I would still recommend breathing gym for anyone who wants to be a stronger breather.

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