https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/get-air-need-focal-point-checklist-breathing/ Total Immersion Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/get-air-need-focal-point-checklist-breathing/#comment-6667 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 19:47:00 +0000 http://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=6261#comment-6667 If you only fill your upper lungs with chest breathing you do not get nearly as much breath in as when you begin at “the bottom of the lungs” with belly breathing and then fill up the upper lungs so the 7 times more air comment is correct. I teach using a biofeedback machine and it verifies this.

]]> https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/get-air-need-focal-point-checklist-breathing/#comment-6665 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:06:00 +0000 http://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=6261#comment-6665 The only way to get 7 times more oxygen is to take in 7 times more air. The concentration of oxygen in the air is fixed, and so is the maximum volume of your lungs. So your statement is physically impossible.

]]> https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/get-air-need-focal-point-checklist-breathing/#comment-6664 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:13:00 +0000 http://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/?p=6261#comment-6664 Many useful articles from TI on the various aspects of breathing but no mention ever of the mega advantages of diaphrammatic or belly breathing. It is a fact that seven times more oxygen enters the system with every breath. Resting breathing rate can be slowed to four or five breaths per minute when belly breathing, impossible when thoracic breathing.
It’s made an enormous difference to my swim breathing.

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