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Why POWERbreathe
SPORT ? Use this POWERbreathe
flowchart to choose the best unit for your needs.
How many
serious athletes follow tight training regimes to keep a competitive
edge? And how many have stopped to think about how they can
improve one of the fundamental aspects of fitness - their breathing?
Exercising
and strengthening the muscles we use to breathe in - the inspiratory
muscles - can help boost performance. New research has shown
that training these muscles can improve all-round fitness and
even maximise the effectiveness of other muscles used in sport.
Using the
laboratory-proven POWERbreathe training system of 30 breaths
twice a day, an athlete's strength and endurance will increase
rapidly. POWERbreathe - an easy-to-use, drug-free, hand held
device, has a controllable load for progressive training and
is appropriate for athletes in all types of sports.
Research
has shown that the inspiratory muscles have such a huge task
to perform that they can 'steal' blood from our exercising limbs
to supplement their work (Harms et al., 1998). The effect of
this is to limit the performance of those limb muscles - making
exercise feel harder and impairing performance. New research
has now shown that specific inspiratory muscle training (IMT)
improves the efficiency of the inspiratory muscles (Sharpe &
McConnell, 1998), with the consequence that performance in laboratory
controlled trials is improved by almost 30% (Caine & McConnell,
1998).
Studies
have shown that time trial performance improves in elite rowers
(Voliantis et al., 2001a) and cyclists (Romer et al., 2001a)
by as much as 4.6%! That slashes almost 3 minutes off a 40km
cycling time trial, and gives a winning margin of more than
60m in a 2000m rowing race!
POWERbreathe
SPORT is ideal for high intensity exercisers (4 or more times
per week)
This text
is courtesy of Gaiam Ltd 2005 from website www.powerbreathe.com
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