Changing Your Breathing to Move Better

Have you ever thought to yourself: how many times per day am I breathing in and out? It’s not something you think about. This is because your body does and has to do it involuntarily.

Fact: You never realize how important oxygen is until you don’t have it! 

Yet, it's is extremely common to breathe incorrectly and never notice. The average number of breaths taken per day by an individual is 20,000. That’s a lot of breathing done with the improper set of muscles.

Do you have some of these symptoms?

• Tight neck and shoulders
• Frequent Headaches
• Lack Focus
• Fatigue  
• Anxious or unsettled

Breathing incorrectly may not only be the source of the above symptoms but changing your focus to breathing correctly can help begin to alleviate those issues. Breathing through the upper chest and rib cage is known as secondary or emergency breathing (the breathing used during fight or flight). Instead, we need to learn and operate out of our primary or safe breathing pattern also known as diaphragmatic breathing. Using the diaphragm to breathe (just like a newborn or infant does) changes our bodies back to the relaxed state. How many of us need to relax? We all do.

Here at Moulton Kettlebell Club, we use a system of resets from Original Strength to restore breathing back to the diaphragm. This is often the first place we begin with clients. As trainers, our number one cue to clients is to tell them to breathe! Whether they are trying to pick up something heavy or swing a kettlebell 100 times, breathing is they key to it all.

Here is a simple reset:

• Lie down on the floor on your back
• Hands out to your side palms up
• Legs straight 
• Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth
• Breathe in and out through your nose
• Repeat the above steps over and over!

It is astounding how many of us will find this challenging. 5 minutes of restoring your breathing pattern will change everything for your body. As with any exercise, the common mistake is to rush through this.

Do not rush this.

Let me repeat that. Relax. Do not rush this.

Use this time to clear the mind from the days duties and distractions. Prepare for your workout this way. Finish your workout this way. Start and end your day with this. After you get home from work. While your at work. I know I sound like a broken record but that’s how important this is for you to reach your health goal.

Changing your breathing will change your life.

Till next time,

Nathan
Nathan@MoultonKettlebellClub.com



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