POWERBREATHE PLUS range
POWERbreathe SPORT PLUS
For serious sports people and professional athletes, POWERbreathe Sports Performance PLUS is a drug free training tool that improves endurance and speed within four weeks. No wonder it's used and endorsed by international athletes and sports associations.
In competitive sports, breathlessness is a barrier to better performance. Respiratory effort can account for up to 15% of cardiac output, and when the inspiratory muscles tire they divert blood from other hard working muscles (like in the arms and legs), which limits their performance. But POWERbreathe works by training the muscle group often overlooked by other sports preparation.
- Because the inspiratory muscles help to stabilise, rotate and control the upper body, POWERbreathe Sports Performance PLUS helps athletes increase muscle strength by up to 45%
- Running, rowing, hiking, swimming, cycling, team sports and gym workouts become less difficult, while recovery times shorten.
- In tests, rowing time trails improved by a margin of more than 60m in 2000m race, while cycling time trails over 40km improved by 3minutes.
- Between repeat sprints, recovery time was up to 7% faster.
- In laboratory conditions, stamina and endurance improved by 30%.
IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE POWERBREATHE SPORT ORIGINAL:
NEW Hi-tech design features & benefits of POWERbreathe PLUS:
- Improved airflow dynamics
- Ergonomic design
- Comfortable antibacterial mouthpiece (protects against bacteria such as E.Coli and MRSA)
- Soft-touch nose clip for improved comfort and grip
- Angled handle for optimum grip
- Simple disassembly for easy cleaning
- Easy-to-read resistance level indicator for improved monitoring
- Scratch resistant
Why POWERbreathe
SPORT PLUS? 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!
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New antibacterial mouthpiece |
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POWERbreathe
SPORT PLUS is ideal for high intensity exercisers (4 or more times
per week)
This text
is courtesy of Gaiam Ltd 2007 from website www.powerbreathe.com |