Dr. Joe Sheppard, The Happy Athlete and author of a new PowerLung case study, believes the ability to improve exhale respiratory muscles is very important to your performance. Read the study here and then visit The Happy Athlete to register to win a PowerLung or other great prizes.
PowerLung has been involved with Olympics since PowerLung began. This year we are supporting runners in the Olympic Marathon Trials. And we want to support you with tips from other athletes on how you can use PowerLung to help you stay focused on your training and your goals.
Cable Spence is a friend I met several years ago when he lived in Chicago. When he retired a few years later and moved to Florida he decided to learn to play the banjo. Cable started all this after his 72nd birthday. One thing led to another and he joined a bluegrass band, The Ancient…
Here’s what the swimmers at the Brandywine YMCA did on Saturday: W/U 500 Swim Choice Kick w/ fins: 5 x 100 @ :15 rest. Choice. Pull: 5 x 100 @ :10 rest, alternate back and free Main: 5 x 100 IM @2:30/2:45/3:00 IM’s can be any configuration depending on strokes known W/D 2 x 50…
It is hard to believe it is Wednesday already. I had a stomach bug Sunday and Monday and have just about caught up with things. Saturday’s workout was with my swimming group, and I did the warm up with them: 6 x 100 free/back, 100 each swim kick drill. Then 4 x 50 free @…
OK-so I did 800 yards. And it was time to get out. Legs shaking. But no shoulder pain! And the breathing was better than I had thought it would be. I did 4x 200, mixing it up, and not using any equipment (fins, pull buoys, or paddles). In the middle I did 6 x 50…
I did it! Swam 650 yards on Saturday AM after I coached my masters group. Felt great. Just long, slow easy, with my swimmers checking it out. Never occurred to me that I would have an audience! I know the first time in after a long absence can be deceptive, but I have to…
Like many masters swimmers, I had unrealized swimming goals, and decided to attempt to realize them. Only, I had taken 30 years off… I got back in the water 10 years ago. It took me an entire year just to build an aerobic base. I didn’t know about Power Lung at the time! In 2000,…