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Many people/athletes think that if they’re already fit and functioning at a high level, why would they need to train their respiratory system (lungs, diaphragm, and respiratory muscles). The human body is an integration of body systems (11 body systems in total) that work in synergy to maintain optimal functioning. When we exercise, we put extra demands on our muscular, cardiovascular, nervous, and respiratory systems. A shortfall in one system has a knock-on effect through each and every other system. For example; over breathing during exercise will elevate heart rate and put the cardiovascular system under more load. It is not uncommon for very fit athletes that I train to have relatively poor breathing mechanics, lack of awareness of breathing rate control and both over breath during light-medium intensity exercise and under breath during high intensity exercise.The thing about the human body is that it is the master of compensation and while the body adapts to dysfunction and imbalance in the respiratory system it results in inefficient training, prolonged recovery, increase risk of injury and impacts there ability to sustain peak performance over the long term. Each bodily system also relies on the constant uptake and utilisation of oxygen, so the respiratory system can be viewed as the most fundamentally important body system. It doesn’t matter how much time, energy and focus you put into cardio (cardiovascular system) and conditioning (muscular system), unless you have good breathing capacity then you won’t achieve peak performance. Often, we gas out NOT because of a lack of cardiovascular or muscular endurance but because of inadequate breathing capacity. What is the one thing you focus on when you’re exhausted or under the pump? It’s your breathing, every time. Yet we rarely specifically train the respiratory system in order to improve its function, like we would cardio, for example. This course is designed to improve your OVERALL breathing capacity and bring more awareness to how you breath and how to use this body system to improve focus, energy control, recovery, endurance, power and self awareness.

Hi there, I remember reading an interesting article about impaired Paediatric breathing a while ago and its profound cognitive effects. Might help the guy that asked the question on your live chat the other day about his child's breathing. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945718300376- bit dense but the abstract informs you of what you need to know and the importance what Dave is teaching us from a very young age.