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breath

training

FOR

ATHLETES

BOOST YOUR PERFORMANCE BY TRAINING YOUR RESPIRATORY MUSCLES

respiratory

muscle training (RMT)

Muscles must be trained to improve performance. While this applies to all body muscles, the respiratory musculature is often overlooked.

Strengthening your respiratory muscles, however, significantly improves exercise capacity and peak athletic performance.

Training with the Breather Fit only takes 5-10 minutes

a day and can be done anytime that fits your routine.

11 different settings allow you to independently adjust the resistance to your inhale and exhale.

Breather Fit is intended for moderate to high-intensity use. Training is recommended at 7-8 RPE for 2-3 sets x 10 breaths, twice a day.

In addition, using RMT to warm up respiratory muscles before high-intensity exercise can significantly improve time to exhaustion. [22]

How to use the BREATHER FIT to boost performance

What can the BREATHER FIT

do for athletes?

Both muscle pain and breathlessness result from a failure of the cardiorespiratory system to deliver adequate oxygen to support the current metabolic requirements of the muscles [1].

RMT reduces breathlessness and delays time to fatigue by improving respiratory muscle strength and endurance [2]–[5].

Combining RMT with an athlete’s training further enhances the effects, as measured by core strength and endurance and the onset of blood lactate accumulation [6].

Specific benefits of RMT on athletic performance

5% decrease

in total sprint time and

5% increase in sprint

speed in professional

soccer players [18]

4-5% Decrease

in freestyle swimming time in sprint swimmers [17]

13% increase

in the inspiratory muscle strength in highly trained competitive swimmers [16]

17% increase

in the time to fatigue in

sub-elite swimmers [2]

Comprehensive reviews showed the effectiveness of RMT for athletes, particularly when combining inspiratory and expiratory muscle training [3].

The BREATHER FIT is the first device to offer both types of training in one device.

RMT releases 12% more oxygen for other muscle groups to use [13].

RMT improves blood flow to resting

and exercising limbs, improving exercise capacity and endurance [14].

Training the diaphragm improves posture and balance and prevents injury [15].

What can the BREATHER FIT

do for athletes?

16% increase

in inspiratory muscle

strength in track runners [19]

Specific benefits of RMT on athletic performance

2.8% increase

in the run performance of distant runners with respiratory muscle training as part of a warm-up [20]

20% increase

in running time to exhaustion carrying a 25kg thoracic load [21]

Average RMT-induced benefits would convert to relevant advantages in time trials [3]

40 m or five skiff lengths in a 2 km rowing regatta

100 m in a 2 km running race

1.2 m in a 200 m swimming competition

1 km in a 30 km cycling race

BREATHER FIT’S IMPACT ON NOSE BREATHING

Nose breathing has proven effective and beneficial for exercise performance. Training with the Breather Fit makes nasal breathing easier to achieve and more effective, optimizing the benefits.

Breather Fit must be used with diaphragmatic breathing for optimal benefit. However, Breather Fit is not intended to change your breathing technique during performance or throughout the day.