Going for a breathe

We go for a workout

We go for a walk

We go for a run

We go for a swim

Let's start going for a Breathe

Especially now, in the year of Covid, breathing MUST be a priority

Find a park, a beach, a forrest wherever, anywhere away from traffic and ideally, people.

And breathe

Shut your mouth, maybe hold a teaspoon of water in your mouth.

And walk, or jog

Three steps breathing in, 4-8 steps breathing out.

Maybe you use a landmark as a "go" marker.

Jog up to the marker, as you pass it exhale naturally but don't breath in again until you have taken 5 steps past.

Resume breathing and keep jogging to a second marker, maybe 30, 4,0 50 meters past the first.

Turn and walk back to the start

The whole time you breathe through the nose.

If the 5 paces were easy, add 5.

Keep adding 5 until you hit a max.

Now do a few more repeats at a level below that max. Before jogging for a longer period in a nice relaxed manner.

You'll feel what the Buteyko guys call an "air hunger"

A mild panic as the diaphragm starts to twitch desperate for you to inhale.

This is a response to the build up of carbon dioxide in your system.

This is good.

Between the breath holds, the nasal breathing and the activity, you're developing a tolerance to CO2, you're allowing the CO2 signal for heamaglobin to release oxygen for use in the working tissues.

You're allowing Nitric Oxide to build in the synuses which when you do inhale is taken into the lungs where it opens up the capillaries to better allow blood flow.

And you get 20 minutes to an hour of time where it's just you.

No idle chit chat

No bullshit media

No gossip

No phone calls

No emails

Go for a Breathe.

Regards

Dave Hedges