Lung Training
Here is a very interesting article I read this morning in Science News saying that Lung Training can improve performance by 10 percent.
Here is the article: Science News Online Week of April 16, 2005; Vol. 167, No. 16 Breath training aids sprint power Janet Raloff From San Diego, at the Experimental Biology 2005 meeting Athletes who perform short, high-intensity activities benefit from training their lungs as well as their arms and legs. A new study points to one reason why. Exercise physiologist Lorrie Brilla of Western Washington University in Bellingham and her colleagues trained 15 physically fit and healthy 22-year-olds to strengthen muscles that drive respiration. Five days a week, the volunteers would suck air forcefully through a training apparatus 60 times while their noses were pinched closed. No air entered the mouth until the suction reached 75 percent of an individual's maximum sucking capacity. Before and after 6 weeks of this breath training, the men and women were evaluated as they pedaled a stationary bike as fast as they could for 30 seconds. Such short-term sprinting is powered largely by energy stored in muscles, rather than by lung power, Brilla says. Still, the volunteers demonstrated an average of 10 percent more peak power on the bike after the breath-training regimen. At rest, they showed a 25 percent increase in the amount of air they could move in one breath—a boon for longer exercise tasks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a comment on this article that you would like considered for publication in Science News, send it to editors@sciencenews.org. Please include your name and location. References: Brilla, L.R., R.A. Victor, and B.A. Mathers-Schmidt. 2005. Effect of inspiratory muscle training on anaerobic power. Experimental Biology 2005. April 2. San Diego. Abstract. Sources: Lorrie R. Brilla Western Washington University Adult Fitness Program Center for Fitness Evaluation Bellingham, WA 98225-9067 http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050416/note15.asp From Science News, Vol. 167, No. 16, April 16, 2005, p. 254. Copyright (c) 2005 Science Service. All rights reserved. |
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