The 30 Day Breathing Challenge is a series of Buteyko inspired exercises to improve breathing through spine mobility, facial stretching, diaphragm stretching and breathing exercises to improve cellular respiration.
Taiso Fitness and Nutrition is holding a 30 Day Breathing Challenge. If your walking around downtown Tacoma, visiting Point Defiance, or a student at University of Puget Sound, we all want to breath better.
Improving breathing is an easy way to improve conditions such as chronic stress and anxiety. A medical reference from the late 1800s stated that normal breathing was about six breaths per minute, but today many people breath 10 to 12 breaths per minute.
Additionally, improved breathing can help with other issues such as poor sleep quality or lack of sleep, tight muscles, and achy joints. Throughout the month of August, Taiso Fitness will be posting a week by week series of exercises to help improve your breathing.
Week one of the challenge explains how the challenge will work, as well as how to take your baseline measurements in order to track your progress over the course of the month.
The goal of the weekly exercises is to progressively take you through the basics of fascial stretching, ways to stretch and stimulate the diaphragm, and of course specific breathing exercises.
This will help you to mobilize the thoracic spine and chest attachment points of the diaphragm. In our modern world of cars, and computers we can all benefit from these exercises.
By stimulating the diaphragm inhalation becomes deeper facilitating better CO2 exchange and improved cellular respiration.
The Buteyko inspired breathing exercises are then better able to improve the efficiency of our breathing and lowering the number of breaths we require per minute.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the challenge. If you are reading this after August 2015 you can still get the information about the breathing challenge and follow along from week to week and test your progress.
Taiso Fitness and Nutrition is a Tacoma gym that offers small group and personal training with an emphasis on neurology-driven programs to eliminate chronic pain and improve athletic performance.
Breathing Challenge Week One: Foundation
Breathing Challenge Week Two: Posture
Breathing Challenge Week Three: Cramping
Breathing Challenge Week Four: Energy and Motivation
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