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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 thijsc »

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?

Did one session with an acting coach once which was very useful.

Most useful tip he gave me: in between sentences focus on breathing out, instead of breathing in. If you clear your lungs they will take care of filling up automatically.

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

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Post by TriNetra »

tomerbd wrote: post #73

Can someone summarize what's the best technique for breathing well? Something everyone can do daily and improve? I read the article (I think) seen no guide there.

I just mentioned the same here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22661875

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Post by gingerlime »

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?

Also curious. I tend to strain my vocal chords when I talk and can’t talk very loud. Normal conversations are fine but even reading to my son I feel like I’m straining my voice.

Would definitely be interested in some coaching and zero interest in singing. I wonder if it’s something you can do via zoom? Especially these days ...

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

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Post by verytrivial »

If you haven't already, start jogging/running. Unless you are in a super-dense city it's easy to meet isolation requirements. Start jogging at the start of each 5 (or 2) minute boundary, jog until you're too puffed, then walk until next boundary. Repeat until 20, 30 or 45 minutes is up. Done. Then repeat every day or other day until you are jogging non-stop. Congratulations, you're now a runner and your lungs are now unavoidably stronger.

Don't bother with stretching rituals unless you have extra time to burn -- they don't really make a difference versus simply running within your current comfort zone. Half of the running biz is a meditation on the state of your body during and between runs (the other half is scheduling, and that's aaaaall different now.)

Also, if you have 'gunky lungs' (either standard cold/flu or COVID-19) wait until you are mostly gunk-free before running!

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

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Post by lm28469 »

verytrivial wrote: post #78

If you haven't already, start jogging/running. Unless you are in a super-dense city it's easy to meet isolation requirements. Start jogging at the start of each 5 (or 2) minute boundary, jog until you're too puffed, then walk until next boundary. Repeat until 20, 30 or 45 minutes is up. Done. Then repeat every day or other day until you are jogging non-stop. Congratulations, you're now a runner and your lungs are now…

> your lungs are now unavoidably stronger.

Are there any long term studies about the health effects of running in polluted cities ?

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

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Post by rusk »

rand_r wrote: post #39
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…

The evolutionary history of how we developed an instinct to hyperventilate is an interesting question. However, I have to put up a warning that hyperventilating doesn't actually increase oxygen levels. It's a dangerous practice because it surpasses the natural drive to breath by depleting CO2 in the blood to abnormally low levels. Our breath drive depends on CO2 levels and can get fooled by hyperventilation into lett…

> The evolutionary history of how we developed an instinct to hyperventilate

Presumably it's a fight or flight response. It's redundant and counterproductive of course in many modern stress situations but if you had to fight off a predator or catch that animal the extra jolt of vascular activity probably makes perfect sense.

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