Lets talk about something that is arguably infinitely more important and yet so ignored by the fitness community.
The fine art of BREATHING. You need to fucking breath all damn day or you die. Less oxygen makes your body under perform in pretty much every way. More oxygen in your blood has the opposite effect, this correlation you can see directly anytime you exercise. You're literally dumber if you get less oxygen in your brain. I'm willing to bet however, that with the bad habits (smoking etc), bad genetics (mouth breathing/asthma as a kid etc), and bad environment (pollution or high elevation etc), most people in the first world (especially those who live in more industrial places and cities) are not getting a constant supply of rich oxygen. This may be due to environment, but it may also very well be due to the fact that people don't ever pay mind to their possibly short and shallow breath. And building a habit of always breathing in a deep, controlled, and rhythmic manner is never taught unless you're a yogi or something similar.
So I want a thread to talk about things like proper breathing techniques during exercises like lifting or intense cardio, things to increase lung capacity, how to increase oxygen flow in the bloodstream, breathing during meditation and sleep and of course, what is the most beneficial way to be breathing during your regular everyday life not spent exercising or meditating. I believe there is a profound effect to changing your lifestyle to incorporate better breathing, it's just not something we ever pay mind to due to how involuntary it typically is.
Thoughts? I'm very interested in this, but with so many different breathing techniques and reasons for them it's quite hard to pinpoint what would objectively be a better way to breath. Think stuff like the Wim Hof method.
if you breathe like Wim Hoff you probably won't get anywhere.
You wanna breathe less, but with the diaphragm. normalbreathing.com
Samuel Baker
Learn to play a wind instrument, specifically a bass instrument, Bari sax, trombone, tuba, etc. Playing trombone for 8 years in school basically cured my asthma. Also focus on spending less time in CO2 rich environments as they can reduce cognitive function. I've also heard of some exercises to increase lung capacity but I don't know if they're bullshit or not.
Jace Russell
How the fuck do people not breath with their diaphragm It genuinely confuses me.
Dylan Garcia
Reminder to breathe out of your nose as well. Read Patrick McKeown's " The Oxygen Advantage" unless you want to be a breathlet
Grayson Morris
Also check out the youtube channel "What I've learned" , mainly his videos on breathing and the Wim Hof method
Jason Price
t. Jojo
James Allen
Go outside as often as possible because the air in your room is much worse for you.
Aaron Taylor
tobacco opens up your diaphragm /closethread
Thomas Diaz
Excuse I, but wim hof holds 26 guiness world records and does shit where you would die in fucking seconds. Please elaborate why his ways wont get me anywhere and where has your shallow breathing got you?
I don’t necessarily want to breath like Wim Hof unless that actually is the ideal method of breathing that I want this thread to try to get at. Learning an instrument just for breathing is definitely fun if you’re already aligned with that. Otherwise that’s a bit impractical
Cooper Powell
Start swimming
Gavin Taylor
I don't know exactly when it started for me either but I did use to "breath through my chest" and I still catch myself doing it. Shameful to admit it, but in my late middle school/high school days I used to not want to breath through my diaphragm because I was a fat fuck. Didn't want my horrendous gut to be even more noticeable. Once I became conscious of how shallow it made my breath I started trying to knock it off. But I notice now my breathing pattern is generally irregular and shallow and it would probably do me wonders to "relearn" how to breath.
Austin Gonzalez
Thank you, will look into this. On the off chance I actually unlock my hamon. Does being near an open window count?
Adrian Young
Fucking kids get a real job then see if u have time for "ideal" breathing Im 23 and consider smoking just to be able to do my shitty warehouse job better
Henry Kelly
Consider smoking my dick you whiny boomer faggot
Christopher Long
what a fucking faggot. I work a manual labor work and I dont smoke. ALl the smoker are weak pussies that cry all the time about how hard everything is, they cant function without getting their smoke every hour or two, they literally have to go and feed their addiction like zombies. Shit is pathetic.
Logan Wood
Nobody is impressed you down syndrome
Aaron Scott
>warehouse >real job
huh?
Chase Fisher
Those are the same guys that think working a factory job is manly. Babysitting a machine that a monkey can run for 40+ hours a week is brainlet tier.
Oliver Sanchez
Consider the instrument a part of general self improvement. I don't really think it's particularly impractical to learn either, 30-45 minutes a day is all you need to eventually get there.
Oh fuck we got a real manly man over here just fucking do it, I have spent ~2hours total to focus on breathing years ago and have completely forgotten about the whole thing since. Inspired by this thread I tried to breathe through my chest and literally could barely do it because it feels so wrong, you sure as fuck should have 20min here and there to make a permanent improvement to your life
Jayden Johnson
>sleep with window open >get sick
>sleep with window closed >get no oxygen
which one do i do? The winter air is too dry and makes me sick
Grayson Barnes
Who the actual fuck doesn't breathe from the diaphragm? Whenever people bring it up I get genuinely bewilder, what kind of fucking mongoloid can naturally do this weird "chest" breathing people always describe.
>breeeeeaaaaathe in >Hold breath as maximum capacity while benching a ton >down, hit the chest, up >Release breath while maintaining a tense as fuck core >stand up pumped as fuck >Punch a wall >mfw fist cleans through concrete like through butter >somewhere else, a girl has orgasmed I love this God damn feeling my man. Breathing, eating, lifting, sleeping. It's what I live for.
What do you mean by sick? I keep the bedroom window open all day and close it when I go to bed to minimize excess light and noise from the outside and the dryness doesn't bother me too much. If you get a runny nose or something it might just be too cold?
Wyatt Gutierrez
you should try sleeping with the window open. you feel waaay more rested when you wake up. waking up with the window's closed feels like waking up after smoking a ton of meth
Anthony Morris
I'm lowkey "trying" but despite having covered the entire window in aluminium foil and duct tape the light bleeding through the edges sometimes stops me from falling asleep. Atleast I've managed to keep the living room window open 24/7 for a while now and have gotten used to the relative cold.
Alexander Perry
i have blinders so the light doesnt affect me that much. The noise is annoying. just sleep in a position so your blanket covers your eyes and ears but not your noise. you dont want to sleep breathing through your mouth.
Andrew Morgan
I like our thread. Breathing is key to a happy and healthy life.
Have you ever heard of Tao Yoga? There are some interesting breathing techniques to activate you chi.
Just breath and everything will be allright.
Elijah Young
I'm 24, last job I had before I quit was a delivery boy/cashier. I've been working lowtier jobs for as long as I could work, who the fuck are you? You honestly feel special because you work?
Kayden Jackson
One thing, is it mostly just filler? I don't wanna buy a book just to find out you can sum up what it wants you to do in 5 pages or less, with the rest being a bunch of dragged out filler and testimonials.
Austin Young
It's not hard to believe but yes many people have to be retaught to breath naturally. I don't know what gives them the bad habit in the first place, different reason for everyone probably. Smoking/being insecure about your stomach popping out are 2 examples I know.
Daniel Young
so should you breathe more or less?
Cooper Hill
This is precisely why i made this thread. I've heard both sides. I agree. No I have not heard of Tao Yoga.
Elijah Powell
deeper breaths, as few as possible. like as few as 2 or 3 per minute, whereas most people do a dozen or more. breathe down into your nuts, your chest shouldn't move. you should make no noise as the breathe moves in or out of your nose, it should be so slow and smooth.
naturalbreathing.com look up "buteyko method"
Kevin Myers
Bump
Evan Lopez
>“The lungs are reservoirs of air, and the air is the lord of strength. Whoever speaks of strength must know of air.” >– Jui Meng, Shaolin monk, 1692
Hudson Carter
What's better? Cold air or warm air (moisture factored out)?
