Breathing Exercises
February 18, 2009
Many of you would have understood that breathing is a natural process and there is nothing to think about. This is not true, especially in a situation like workouts. Our body needs not just food and water but also the oxygen processed with transfer from the lungs via the bloodstream to the muscles. Keeping ourselves in a good environment, such as being away from pollution and industry gases, is definitely necessary. But, if you do not breathe adequately, how long will even the good environment ensure you good health?
An increasing number of people now believe that breathing efficiency with techniques can enhance your exercise program. For Yoga or Tai Chi, the Eastern disciplines, breathing plays an integral role. During an ordinary day, a woman takes 28,000 breaths on an average. Breathing rhythmically is recommended with the use of your diaphragm in association with expanding of the ribcage and pulling air to the bottom of the lungs and deep inside the belly. Various Yoga and exercise poses can illustrate with enhancing your awareness about which part of the lungs is filling. This needs to be practiced for more understanding.
How to do:
Just sit, keeping your hands on your diaphragm. Now start breathing slowly from deep inside, inhaling rhythmically from your nose and exhaling out of the mouth. Feel the chest and middle portion rise. Take your hands to the abdomen with expanding the belly when you inhale. This exercise is good at the time you need relaxation.
Deeply inhaling several times is good as a part of your warm-up. While at the gym, during the aerobics, breathing through your nose as long as you can is advisable, because the nose can be helpful to humidify the dry air of the gym. While breathing fast, if your nose does not work properly, make a use of your mouth for filling of the lungs.
Exhaling during exertion such as contracting of muscles (weight lifting) and inhaling during releasing (weight releasing) is good. Holding your breath is inadvisable.
During the time of cooling down, your heart rate as well as breathing will reach normalcy. Proper breathing is helpful for relaxing and releasing stress and is less taxing on neck muscles. Moreover, it will surely enhance your overall performance too with helping the body’s metabolism.
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