Powerbreathe - Sports Performance
POWERbreathe - an essential training tool for all competitive athletes. FREE DELIVERY*
Powerbreathe Athlete (Sports performance) - The ideal choice for advanced
fitness competitor & professional.
Powerbreathe - Sports performance - We have sent these models
to many professional athletes and teams on a National and International basis.
From world champion martial arts practioners to International track & field
squads, football coaches & players, sports men & women, professional
and competitive cyclists, breath hold divers, spear fishermen.... the list goes
on. Everyone that has an "Athletic" lung development and requires
that little extra competitive edge will notice a performance benefit from using
the Power-Breathe "Sports performance" model. In
our opinion no other training device can achieve such significant gains from
such short periods of use!
The following is an extract taken from the Powerbreathe web-site.
How many serious athletes follow tight training regimes to keep a competitive
edge? And how many have stopped to think about how they can improve one of the
fundamental aspects of fitness - their breathing?
Exercising and strengthening the muscles we use to breathe in - the inspiratory
muscles - can help boost performance. New research has shown that training these
muscles can improve all-round fitness and even maximise the effectiveness of
other muscles used in sport.
Using the laboratory-proven POWERbreathe training system of 30 breaths twice
a day, an athlete's strength and endurance will increase rapidly. POWERbreathe
- an easy-to-use, drug-free, hand held device, has a controllable load for progressive
training and is appropriate for athletes in all types of sports.
Research has shown that the inspiratory muscles have such a huge task to perform
that they can 'steal' blood from our exercising limbs to supplement their work
(Harms et al., 1998). The effect of this is to limit the performance of those
limb muscles - making exercise feel harder and impairing performance. New research
has now shown that specific inspiratory muscle training (IMT) improves the efficiency
of the inspiratory muscles (Sharpe & McConnell, 1998), with the consequence
that performance in laboratory controlled trials is improved by almost 30% (Caine
& McConnell, 1998).
Studies have shown that time trial performance improves in elite rowers (Voliantis
et al., 2001a) and cyclists (Romer et al., 2001a) by as much as 4.6%! That slashes
almost 3 minutes off a 40km cycling time trial, and gives a winning margin of
more than 60m in a 2000m rowing race!
