5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
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Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#2I wonder if they got the idea from watching Wim Hoff videos on YouTube.
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#3Where can I buy one?
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#4I wonder if they got the idea from watching Wim Hoff videos on YouTube.
Considering it's an exercise protocol from the 1980s, probably not.
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#5The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not.
(I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I might be able to make this work with just my fist.)
If anyone knows, please hit reply and let me know.
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#6I wonder if they got the idea from watching Wim Hoff videos on YouTube.
If you read the article you'll see this is an adjustment of a technique used since the 80s.
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#7Where can I buy one?
It's called Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) and they are on the market: https://www.powerbreathe.com/ (and other manufacturers).
I believe this study used the POWERbreathe K-Series: https://www.powerbreathe.com/product-category/breathing-trai...
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#8The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not. (I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I might be able to make this work with just my fist.) If anyone knows, please hit reply and let me know.
Paper is linked in the article: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.121.020980
Intervention section mentions that study participants used a device called 'POWERbreathe K3 inspiratory muscle training device'.
Googling the device provides these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5U7mDhFi4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvtZW5Q1ox8
When I was working out in the gym in the summer in pandemic season with masks on, I noticed my breathlessness, the movement of the mask amplifies the visual and it was easy to draw a comparison in this way with my surrounding gym peers, and indeed I realized my lungs were in much worse shape than I'd expected, so I'm going to give this thing a try.
Edit: model featured in YouTube is not the same one the study used but close ‘nuff to get the idea.
Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#9Where can I buy one?
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Re: 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
#10The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not. (I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I might be able to make this work with just my fist.) If anyone knows, please hit reply and let me know.
I'm not sure I understand the question.
The point is to breathe in and out as strongly/deeply and slowly as possible. You don't "do" anything aside from breathing and increasing the difficulty mode as your strength improves (over e.g. weeks).
If you breathe out quickly you're losing a large amount of the benefit of the exercise.
PS - I own a POWERBREATHE Sport, no relation to the company or this study.