Proven to enhance inspiratory muscle strength and endurance in athletes

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In athletes, POWERbreathe training has elicited improvements in strength by 31.2% and endurance by 27.8% (Caine & McConnell, 1998)

  Proven to improve athletic performance

·         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, C. 2000 ‘Effect of skeletal muscel demand on cardiovascular function’ Med.Sci.Sports Exerc. 32 (1): 94-99) The effect of this is to limit the performance of those limb muscles – making exercise feel harder and impairing performance.

  ·         New studies have shown that specific inspiratory muscle training improves efficiency of the inspiratory muscles (Sharpe & McConnell, 1998)

  ·         By ‘overloading’ your inspiratory muscles using tried and proven principles of resistance training, their strength, power and endurance improves (Romer et al., 2001b)

  ·         Studies have shown that time trial performance improves in elite rowers (Volianitis 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!

  Used as a warm-up, POWERbreathe boosts your inspiratory muscle performance

·        Research has shown that a standard warm-up fails to prepare the inspiratory muscles for the rigours of exercise (Volianitis et al., 1999). Laboratory trials show that a POWERbreathe warm-up significantly improves rowing performance and reduces breathlessness in competitive rowers (Volianitis et al., 2001b)

  Inspiratory performance improves in 4 weeks

·        Within a few days your inspiratory muscles will feel stronger, within 3 weeks you will feel less breathless and within 4 weeks your performance will improve (Caine & McConnell, 1998; Volianitis et al., 2001a; Romer et al., 2001)

  Using POWERbreathe for 30 breaths twice a day will improve breathi ng

·         POWERbreathe has undergone rigorous and systematic testing to identify the most effective training regimen (Caine & McConnell, 1998)