Hi folks!
I want to give you access to a special video that can show you how you can easily change the way you breathe to literally transform your body and running. Sometimes to increase performance in running we have to do what is counter-intuitive and not so obvious.
This is an intro video to Mindful Running Breathwork, one of the 100 plus videos that are included in the upcoming Mindful Running Program. It explains how you can improve your running by slowing down your breath (which simulates high-altitude training). Click the link here to watch the free video for a limited time:
NEW VIDEO Slowing Your Breath to Improve Your Running
You may have heard me mention that years ago, training at the Olympic training center, I was struggling badly with asthma, until I learned some powerful breathing techniques, focusing on the exhale to calm my lungs down.
That gave me a clue that there was more to breathing than I ever thought.
Years later, after struggling with bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia, my asthma returned, and I was told I had very small lung capacity and there was nothing I could do about it.
That didn’t make any sense, so I began reading up on breathing, and became pro-active. I started doing breath work in bed, at my desk, and during training to flip things around.
The changes were dramatic.
Not only did my asthma go away, but my lung capacity went WAY up.
We all think we know how to breathe. The truth is, ever since childhood, our breathing’s gone off-track.
As baby’s we were “obligatory nose-breathers” we breathed only through our noses so we could drink our mother’s milk …but then we got sick, our noses clogged, and we panicked, cried, yelled out and gasped…which helped us force air through our mouths.
CLICK HERE to Watch the Video...How to Slow Your Breath to Increase Capacity
And so it began, we quickly learned to breathe through our mouths in times of anxiety, stress, or crisis.
Mouth breathing’s not economical, in essence, we’re gulping air, without the heating, humidifying or filtering the air we get from the nose, before it enters the lungs.
It’s a rushed motion which triggers a fight or flight response, leaving our bodies in a state of panic or fear with a raised heart-rate, and rapid shallow breathing, ineffective at best, to bring in air.
So in running, we all tend to breathe in through our mouths, and high into our lungs.
This leaves us winded…despite thinking we took a deep breath, raises our heart rate (requiring more oxygen), constricts our blood vessels—making it harder to get in enough air, and triggers the fight-or-flight mechanism of the body.
That’s why when you a see a panic attack, someone’s given a paper bag to breathe into…not to gulp in more air, but help them slow their breathing down.
For running, VO2 max is not the be-all, end-all, this is confirmed by the likes of Dr. Timothy Noakes, author of the Lore of Running. First off, the major limits are in the mind. But secondly, it’s not about how much O2 you can get into your lungs…but how much you can get into your muscles!
When we’re constantly blowing it out through our mouths, we can’t absorb it into our bodies.
The answer to this lies in slowing down the breath, and breathing deep into our belly.
Like a pyramid, the lungs are their largest at the bottom, and that’s where the real gas exchange takes place---if we give it enough time.
So we need to belly breath, to train our diaphragm to work as a bellows, and to learn to breath more through our nose, which spins air down to our belly. When we do this, we exchange more air, and we relax the body as well.
Click here to watch the video: Slow the Breath to Run Faster
Our Mindful Running program is a day by day, 6 week program, and nearly every day, you’ll be focusing on breathing exercises to transform your running, and your nervous system.
Whether you join our upcoming program or not, I encourage you to start working today to breathe more through your nose, and to breathe deep into your belly.
At first, it’ll be tough, you’ll think “I can’t get in enough air”.
That’s actually not true, the body doesn’t use oxygen as a gauge for breathing, only for blacking out.
Instead it uses carbon dioxide. Strange as it seems, when you think you’re gasping for air, you’re actually trying to blow off CO2, that’s what forces you to breath. Like I said at the start...it's counter-intuitive.
This one breathing practice is very powerful and can make a huge difference in your running and your life.
Be Mindful, Have Fun Out There, BREATHE DEEP, and Run Free!
Michael Sandler
p.s. Just in case you missed it last week, we announced a new bonus as part of the upcoming program...26 videos on how to prevent and heal from the 26 most common injuries.
p.s. I wanted you to know that we'll be closing down the Mindful Running Program this week...join the dozens who are making this their Fall and Winter running upgrade. All the details of the online training and coaching program are here: Mindful Running Program: 100 videos, group webinar coaching plus bonuses
I want to give you access to a special video that can show you how you can easily change the way you breathe to literally transform your body and running. Sometimes to increase performance in running we have to do what is counter-intuitive and not so obvious.
This is an intro video to Mindful Running Breathwork, one of the 100 plus videos that are included in the upcoming Mindful Running Program. It explains how you can improve your running by slowing down your breath (which simulates high-altitude training). Click the link here to watch the free video for a limited time:
NEW VIDEO Slowing Your Breath to Improve Your Running
You may have heard me mention that years ago, training at the Olympic training center, I was struggling badly with asthma, until I learned some powerful breathing techniques, focusing on the exhale to calm my lungs down.
That gave me a clue that there was more to breathing than I ever thought.
Years later, after struggling with bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia, my asthma returned, and I was told I had very small lung capacity and there was nothing I could do about it.
That didn’t make any sense, so I began reading up on breathing, and became pro-active. I started doing breath work in bed, at my desk, and during training to flip things around.
The changes were dramatic.
Not only did my asthma go away, but my lung capacity went WAY up.
We all think we know how to breathe. The truth is, ever since childhood, our breathing’s gone off-track.
As baby’s we were “obligatory nose-breathers” we breathed only through our noses so we could drink our mother’s milk …but then we got sick, our noses clogged, and we panicked, cried, yelled out and gasped…which helped us force air through our mouths.
CLICK HERE to Watch the Video...How to Slow Your Breath to Increase Capacity
And so it began, we quickly learned to breathe through our mouths in times of anxiety, stress, or crisis.
Mouth breathing’s not economical, in essence, we’re gulping air, without the heating, humidifying or filtering the air we get from the nose, before it enters the lungs.
It’s a rushed motion which triggers a fight or flight response, leaving our bodies in a state of panic or fear with a raised heart-rate, and rapid shallow breathing, ineffective at best, to bring in air.
So in running, we all tend to breathe in through our mouths, and high into our lungs.
This leaves us winded…despite thinking we took a deep breath, raises our heart rate (requiring more oxygen), constricts our blood vessels—making it harder to get in enough air, and triggers the fight-or-flight mechanism of the body.
That’s why when you a see a panic attack, someone’s given a paper bag to breathe into…not to gulp in more air, but help them slow their breathing down.
For running, VO2 max is not the be-all, end-all, this is confirmed by the likes of Dr. Timothy Noakes, author of the Lore of Running. First off, the major limits are in the mind. But secondly, it’s not about how much O2 you can get into your lungs…but how much you can get into your muscles!
When we’re constantly blowing it out through our mouths, we can’t absorb it into our bodies.
The answer to this lies in slowing down the breath, and breathing deep into our belly.
Like a pyramid, the lungs are their largest at the bottom, and that’s where the real gas exchange takes place---if we give it enough time.
So we need to belly breath, to train our diaphragm to work as a bellows, and to learn to breath more through our nose, which spins air down to our belly. When we do this, we exchange more air, and we relax the body as well.
Click here to watch the video: Slow the Breath to Run Faster
Our Mindful Running program is a day by day, 6 week program, and nearly every day, you’ll be focusing on breathing exercises to transform your running, and your nervous system.
Whether you join our upcoming program or not, I encourage you to start working today to breathe more through your nose, and to breathe deep into your belly.
At first, it’ll be tough, you’ll think “I can’t get in enough air”.
That’s actually not true, the body doesn’t use oxygen as a gauge for breathing, only for blacking out.
Instead it uses carbon dioxide. Strange as it seems, when you think you’re gasping for air, you’re actually trying to blow off CO2, that’s what forces you to breath. Like I said at the start...it's counter-intuitive.
This one breathing practice is very powerful and can make a huge difference in your running and your life.
Be Mindful, Have Fun Out There, BREATHE DEEP, and Run Free!
Michael Sandler
p.s. Just in case you missed it last week, we announced a new bonus as part of the upcoming program...26 videos on how to prevent and heal from the 26 most common injuries.
p.s. I wanted you to know that we'll be closing down the Mindful Running Program this week...join the dozens who are making this their Fall and Winter running upgrade. All the details of the online training and coaching program are here: Mindful Running Program: 100 videos, group webinar coaching plus bonuses
