#BREATHE many of us aren’t breathing properly, especially when training..
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To fully experience “being in the zone” while training is a great experience, and it is within the design of our human nervous system to access it. To push ourselves to exhaustion when we have the capacity to allow effortless, perfect performance to flow naturally, from the inside out, seems somehow primitive and a waste of time. I have never heard of a peak experience that was described as painful, grueling or exhausting. Rather, the descriptions always fit the original definition of exercise: rejuvenating, stress-reliving and accessing full human potential 💪 Breathe in lightly through the nose & out the mouth while training.
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Here are some benefits of nasal breathing:
🔹Breathing through the nose forces us to slow down until proper breath is trained.. therefore, proper nose breathing reduces hypertension and stress. It also helps prevent us from overexerting ourselves during a workout.
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🔹The lungs actually extract oxygen from the air during exhalation, in addition to inhalation. Because the nostrils are smaller than the mouth, air exhaled through the nose creates a back flow of air (and oxygen) into the lungs. And because we exhale more slowly through the nose than we do though the mouth, the lungs have more time to extract oxygen from the air we’ve already taken in.
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♦️Mouth breathing accelerates water loss, contributing to dehydration. I basically only breathe though the mouth when In the sauna & steam room..
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Check out @iceman_hof he’s someone who has taught me a lot about HEALTH & breathing through following him. #HealthFirst #BrooklynTank718 #TrainHardEveryone