You may have seen ads for “BREATHING training” devices like the PowerLung that promise to increase your lung capacity and improve your breathing so you can dive deeper and get more time out of every tank. These inhale-like products provide variable resistance against which you inhale and exhale to strengthen your respiratory muscles like those…
Breathe deep and build endurance with a little help by Roy M. Wallack One thing that many free divers (divers who don’t use air tanks), opera singers and Lance Armstrong have in common is strong respiratory muscles, which give their lungs ample oxygen-gathering capacity. Strong lungs can make any physical endeavor, from walking up a…
Blow This! by Nate Millado Normally, MF wouldn’t advocate using a kazoo-looking toy in this way, but trust us on this one: Blowing the PowerLung is good for you. Billed as the first and only resistance lung-muscle-training machine on the market, the manufacturers claim this portable poor man’s Iron Lung will keep you from getting…
A breath of fresh air by Pamela LeBlanc The folks at PowerLung call it weight training for your lungs. Breathe into the blue, green or yellow plastic device, which resembles an asthma inhaler or part of a snorkel, for three or four minutes twice each day, and you’ll breathe easier when you race. PowerLung claims…
PowerLung, in Houston, Texas, provides isolated threshold resistance to train the muscles used in breathing. The PowerLung Trainer is for the recreational athlete who attends aerobics classes or works out two to three times a week; or for those just starting a fitness routine. The PowerLung Sport provides a much more serious workout at a…
Improved strength means improved endurance and that means improved muscle performance. PowerLung’s advanced design makes it easy for you to train your lung muscles. Thirty breaths, twice a day with PowerLung resistance training is all it takes to train your inhale and exhale muscles in the same breath. The PowerLung offers flexible training levels. You…
more power to your lungs Breathing seems so natural – in fact most of the time we don’t even think about it. This changes, however, as soon as we apply some effort in our cycling and get out of breath. Normal training does get you fitter and traditional cardio-vascular training will improve lung capacity but…
PowerLung Review by Cliff Etzel – Editor Due to the nature of my work as a website developer, the time I need for training is difficult to schedule – primarily because the hours for lap and dynamic apnea training at the pool I train at this time of the year coincides with my work hours.…
Issue No. 12 Sometimes in life you need to read between the lines or gather up all the throwaway comments and see what you end up with. So it is with respiratory muscle training (RMT) devices and freediving. Of the three units reviewed here only the PowerLung is both an inspiratory and expiratory trainer –…
“Train Your Lungs” Review by Tom Rogers Whether we’re training for an event or just running to get and stay fit, how many of us worry about the development of our lung muscles – probably not many of us! Of more concern to most runners is how their legs are holding up and are the…