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.
