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POWERbreathe

Introducing POWERbreathe – the latest development in breathing training for health, vitality and disease prevention.

“I’m an asthmatic and the summer usually makes my condition work. I’ve been advised by my doctor to keep active which will keep my lungs as active as possible. This is not always possible when I’m having bad days. Since using the power breathe device – my lungs feel clearer and I seem to have more energy, it’s still early days but I’m really please with the initial results – thanks’ Vicki – Weybridge

This page contains the following information about POWERbreathe Wellness Plus:

	What is POWERbreathe (power breathe – the technology)
	How does POWERbreathe work (power breathe)
	What results can I expect by using POWERbreathe (power breathe)
	Research/clinical studies carried about by POWERbreathe
	By now POWERbreathe (power breathe)

Keep fit and active so you can still enjoy life to full:

	keep up with your grand kids
	reduce that tight chest feeling
	improve your air intake and increase your energy and vitality

POWERbreathe is the official and only Inspiratory Muscle Trainer (breathing muscle trainer) developed and validated by professional sport scientists and world-leading researchers in inspiratory muscle physiology, with numerous research papers attesting to its efficacy in both athletes and patients.

POWERbreathe can either help you if are suffering from ill-health, it’s:

	clinically proven to help and increase your breathing power by training your chest muscles to improve their resistance and thus their strength and power
	increases vitality and well being – good respiratory muscle control is essential for good health – poor breathing leads to restriction in oxygenated blood which leads to ill health

POWERbreathe has also been designed to help increase physical performance:

	improves exercise performance
	increases the body’s efficiency to cope with sports training
	allows you to push your training routine harder

POWERbreathe: Sports Specific Research

During exercise, the amount of air travelling in and out of our lungs can increase over twenty-fold, whereas the heart increases its output by less than six-fold. Thus, the relative demands placed upon the respiratory pump are huge, which is why POWERbreathe is so beneficial to those involved in competitive sports, including:

	Cycling, Running, Triathlon, Swimming, Walking
	Rugby, Football
	Rowing, Skiing, Mountaineering
	Cricket, Squash, Hockey
	Horse Riding
	Scuba Diving, Free Diving

POWERbreathe is drug free and totally safe to use.  It has been clinically proven to produce results within 4 weeks.

How does POWERbreathe reduce the symptoms of asthma?
For people who have asthma, the symptoms are debilitating, frightening, and sometimes poorly controlled by their medication. Patients are increasingly looking for alternatives to traditional drug-based treatments either because their medication doesn’t appear to work, or because they fear its side-effects. Others simply want to explore the addition of alternative treatments in an effort to maximise control of their asthma.

POWERbreathe offers people with asthma a drug-free, clinically-proven method of reducing their symptoms, and putting them in control of their asthma. Research has shown that inspiratory muscle strength is improved, and breathlessness is reduced after as little as three weeks of POWERbreathe training

Longer term training produces additional benefits such as reductions in the use of medication (see figure 1), fewer absences from work/school, fewer GP and hospital visits, and improved quality of life

POWERbreathe is also helpful for other conditions in which breathlessness limits physical activity or quality of life, especially emphysema, chronic bronchitis and heart failure.

"After I developed Asthma, I bought a POWERbreathe and cannot believe the improvement of my breathing. I am going to see my asthma nurse to discuss coming off my preventer."
T Dure, UK.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: POWERbreathe is not intended as an alternative to your asthma medication, but as something that works alongside it. However, after using POWERbreathe for a few weeks you will probably experience a reduction in the need to use your 'reliever' (blue) inhaler. Changes to your medication regimen should not be made without consultation with your healthcare professional

How does POWERbreathe work?
POWERbreahthe is hand held device that has been developed to increase sports performance and reduce breathlessness if you suffer from ill health such as asthma.

POWERbreathe uses resistance training which also allows you to gradually increase the resistance which increases your body’s strength at a pace that suits you.  Within a few days of using POWERbreathe your inspiratory will feel stronger and your lung function will increase too.

How long will it take to see an improvement when using POWERbreathe?

Use POWERbreathe twice a day for a few minutes and within 4 weeks you will notice the results – less out of breathe and stronger core strength within your chest.

What the experts say:
Professor Alison McConnell is Professor of Applied Physiology at Brunel University's Centre for Sports Medicine & Human Performance. She holds degrees from the Universities of London and Birmingham, is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and has published extensively on the subject of breathing and exercise.

More than 15 years ago, Professor McConnell recognised that breathing not only presents a limitation to exercise tolerance in patients with respiratory illness, it also limits healthy people, including athletes. The pioneering research undertaken by her group has moved research on breathing and exercise into the mainstream of sport science. Here's Professor McConnell's take on the important role that breathing plays in exercise performance.

'For many years I accepted this received wisdom held by all sport scientists that breathing doesn't limit exercise performance. But it always troubled me, and I began to wonder why phrases like 'I stopped to catch my breath', or 'I'm taking a breather' came into being if they don't indicate that breathing limits us? As a former competitive rower I also knew, all too well, how the suffocating sensation of 'lung burn' can overwhelm all other sensations of effort to the point where you simply have to back off. Then I began to think 'outside the box'; I considered breathing 'mechanically', as process brought about by muscles, not as one that simply supplied oxygen at no cost to the rest of the body. Once I did this, I quickly came to a very simple conclusion - of course breathing presents a limitation to our ability to exercise, and it does so for each and every one of us.

The demands placed upon the breathing muscles to pump air in and out of our lungs can be enormous; so strenuous in fact that we have measured fatigue of the inspiratory muscles after simulated competitions ranging in duration from 3 to 60 minutes (Lomax and McConnell, 2003; Volianitis et al, 2001; Romer et al, 2002). Inspiratory muscle fatigue has both sensory and metabolic repercussions, both of which impair performance.

The good news is that the inspiratory muscles respond to training in the same way as other muscles - if you subject them to an appropriate training stimulus, they will adapt, increasing their strength, power and endurance (Romer & McConnell, 2003). Whilst the underlying physiological mechanisms may differ, the exercise-related benefits of this training appear to be universal, applying to world-class athletes as much as they do frail elderly patients with severe emphysema.'

Recently reviewed in Runnerworld – April 2009:

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