While breathing occurs automatically, fortunately requiring minimal conscious thought, automatic breathing doesn't necessarily equate to optimal breathing. Data suggests up to 80% of individuals globally experience some form of dysfunctional breathing. Given that we breathe 23,000 times daily, mastering it can significantly influence both our performance and health.

The breath assumes a vital role in regulating not only our physical but also our mental states, governing our emotions, movements, capabilities, and recovery. As a Breathing Coach, I’m qualified to program a tailored breathing program to address your specific requirements.

1. Breathe

2. Feel

Take a moment right now to pause, reflect, and feel your physical and emotional state. Close your eyes and connect to yourself. How you do feel? The path to improvement begins with awareness, and acknowledging when we're not feeling great or falling short of our peak performance is the key. I often talk about awareness and with awareness comes choice. It’s the foundation of our wellbeing.

For peak performance and well-being, it's essential to maintain balance between the two branches of our autonomic nervous system (ANS). The sympathetic (SNS) fuels our action-oriented fight or flight response, while the parasympathetic (PNS) facilitates a return to rest, encouraging connection, safety, and self-regulation. Unfortunately, many of us are stuck in a heightened state of stress and the SNS is locked in overdrive. This has a detrimental effect on our health and performance.

Thankfully, we have control over our nervous system. The key to self-regulation and balance lies in heightening awareness and practicing breathing techniques, tailored to your needs, under the guidance of a skilled breathing coach.

Allow your breath to bring calm, focus, energy, productivity, recovery, and optimal performance.

3. Move

At The Breath Coach, the importance of proper breathing mechanics can’t be understated. It is the foundational cornerstone of functional movement. Whether engaging in daily activities, workouts, or elite sports competitions, mastering breath control remains pivotal.

Central to this concept is the diaphragm, a muscle that is the foundation of core stability and strength. A weak and underused diaphragm coupled with limited ribcage and thoracic spine mobility can significantly affect performance, and influence outcomes, determining a life without back pain, fewer injuries, and enhanced mobility.

4. Perform

Enlisting the skills of a breathing coach can enhance your performance, allowing you to excel. Functional breath training with Intermittent Hypoxic Hypercapnic and parasympathetic recovery training will help you perform at your best. Listed below are a number of aspects of your performance you can improve by engaging in a tailored program of breathing exercises under my guidance, customised to both you and your chosen sport.

  • Enhance your exercise efficiency

  • Delay the onset of breathlessness through increased CO2 tolerance.

  • Delay training competition fatigue, and onset of lactic acid.

  • Improve sleep after big games or competitions by learning how to balance your nervous system for optimal performance through focus, calm, and parasympathetic recovery.

  • Reduce the risk of injuries by training smarter through intermittent hypoxic hypercapnic training (IHHT) and maintain cardiovascular fitness whilst injured.

  • Increase hematocrit and naturally produced EPO.

  • Enhance your posture, increase thoracic cavity mobility, and strengthen spinal stabilisation through diaphragm training.

5. Recover

We all share the desire to recover faster. A swift recovery after intense training, race, or competition is crucial, in balancing HRV enabling us to once again perform at our best the same or the following day.

Minimising stress and having the tools to downregulate to enhance recovery holds the key to elevated sports performance.

Collaboratively, we can engage in breathing techniques to enhance recovery through improved oxygen delivery and blood flow, balance of the nervous system, and heightened parasympathetic activity.

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