EP|9 Breath : Your Essential Health With Dr. Kevin Kirsch DPT

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Show Notes

• When you feel the urge to breath it is due to CO2 build up of oxygen
• CO2 tolerance is what needs to be controlled and expanded to hold your breath longer
• Fitness also plays a role of tolerance
• There is oxygen in our blood and we are not deficient but rather we are noxious to the waste product of CO2
• Most of us are over breathing
• Because you cannot take breaths you tend to take more shallow breaths
• Under developed airways change how much oxygen we can take in
• Allergens and other toxins influence our breathing and force us to breath through our mouths more
• We should only

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• Why nasal breath over mouth breathing?
• Nasal breathing is your first line of your immune system acting as a filter
• Nitric Oxide receptors to expand blood vessel and decrease blood pressure, this helps circulate oxygen more appropriately
• Diaphragm moves more breathing through your nose
• Burn more fat breathing through your nose
• Using more oxygen from the onset allows you to go and train for longer periods of time
• Do you fastest pace with just nose breathing
• Big ego hit for many of us
• 4-5 slower nasal only breathing training session for every 1 day of all out mouth breathing
• What are you training to get out of the event in controlling your Heart Rate
• Training stimulus or competition
• Training:
• Ramp down to control your breathing
• Add pauses after inhales and exhales
• Competition super ventilation
• Inhale and exhale repeatedly fast to buffer fatigue
• Not as good for training stimulus
• Not adapting to the stress you are puting on your body
• Challenge:
• Breath only through your nose for every minute except for talking or eating
• Take not of how you feel doing this
• Try to stifle yawning and sighs
• This includes some exercise, you will have to slow down