Hi,
I am going to get back onto my normal thread this week by talking more generally about vibration training. I would like to talk about hormonal responses to vibration training, specifically human growth hormone. Generally there are very conflicting responses to vibration training largely because of the variation in the methods used and protocols followed. But in growth hormone responses the situation seems a lot more clear. Vibration definitely affects growth hormone responses! There still does seem to be some variability in these responses depending upon the muscle chosen to be vibrated, some muscles such as the soleus (which is a more slow type muscle) can cause a depression in growth hormone release.
One point which does seem to clarify this whole situation is that vibration combined with strength training stimulates human growth hormone release more than either vibration or strength training alone. For a long time now I have never thought of vibration training as a replacement for conventional training, but as an adjunct to other forms of training. This info about human growth hormone release seems to support that view, which is bad news for the lazy amongst us.
Also in the treatment of many clinical conditions treatment of artificial growth hormone is prescribed, with signficant side effects, but encouraging the body to produce it's own growth hormone seems a much more sensible and safe idea.
These are the reasons we developed out vibration training solutions such as youbreathe and vibrex which superimpose the vibrations on to traditional exercise. And the results we get are excellent.
OK, I promised you a download for training yourself to perform abdominal breathing, and it is done and tested now.
Please click this link for the training manual.
http://www.youbreathe.com/general/pdf/abdominal%20breathing%20user%20manual.pdf
Thanks
Monday 25 June 2007
Monday 18 June 2007
More hyperventilation problems
Hi,
I would like to continue this week on the same theme as last week.
This problem of breathing too much because of chest breathing is intriguing me. I have continued trawling the literature and it seems that this problem can be a cause of many other cardiovascular and respiratory disorders such as asthma, variant angina, coronary spasm and sudden death plus other problems such as migraine and spastic colon. These many problems seem to occur as a result of the blood becoming alkaline which leads to constriction of airways and blood vessels.
As I talked about last week, by retraining the breathing to be abdominal instead of chest breathing, the breathing can be slowed whilst still fully oxygenating the blood and avoiding the blood becoming alkaline. This seems to have a protective effect for many of the problems mentioned above and more.
For these reasons I think long term use of youbreathe for slowing the breathing could be so important for maintenance of optimal health long term. For this reason I am in the process of producing an abdominal breathing user manual with exercises for retraining the breathing pattern. I will post that here and on the youbreathe website when it is finished.
Have a great week.
I would like to continue this week on the same theme as last week.
This problem of breathing too much because of chest breathing is intriguing me. I have continued trawling the literature and it seems that this problem can be a cause of many other cardiovascular and respiratory disorders such as asthma, variant angina, coronary spasm and sudden death plus other problems such as migraine and spastic colon. These many problems seem to occur as a result of the blood becoming alkaline which leads to constriction of airways and blood vessels.
As I talked about last week, by retraining the breathing to be abdominal instead of chest breathing, the breathing can be slowed whilst still fully oxygenating the blood and avoiding the blood becoming alkaline. This seems to have a protective effect for many of the problems mentioned above and more.
For these reasons I think long term use of youbreathe for slowing the breathing could be so important for maintenance of optimal health long term. For this reason I am in the process of producing an abdominal breathing user manual with exercises for retraining the breathing pattern. I will post that here and on the youbreathe website when it is finished.
Have a great week.
Sunday 10 June 2007
youbreathe and back pain
Hi,
This week I want to talk a little about using youbreathe and it's potential effects on back pain. Seems like a strange connection to make, but there could actually be a strong benefit of regular youbreathe use on treating back pain.
Let me explain. One chronic problem that can lead to very diverse negative symptoms is chronic hyperventilation (breathing to much and too quickly). Most people actually breathe too much and this has been explained as a probable cause of many diseases such as some cases of asthma and various cardiovascular diseases. Now when you hyperventilate your blood carbon dioxide level goes down which leads to a removal of the neural drive to the breathing muscles. So if the drive to the diaphragm is lower it means the diaphragm is in a more relaxed state. The diaphragm also has a role to play in core stability and stabilising the mid to lower spine, so this means that a more relaxed diaphragm gives less support to the lower back, possibly risking injury.
Additionally, chest breathing and not using the diaphragm means that you are not going to oxygenate the blood very well, and also the blood will become more alkaline, meaning oxygen transport is compromised.
This has certainly been my experience. I have suffered from back pain since I was in my mid teens but since developing youbreathe and using it regularly my back pain has cleared up. I still do my stretching as a flexible back is also very important for injury prevention and health. For more info on youbreathe please visit www.youbreathe.com
There are too many potential symptoms for me to cover in this blog, but the exciting part is that using youbreathe with it's vibration can enable people to relearn abdominal breathing quickly and permanently.
For more info on back pain please visit these sites:
NHS - Back Pain
Back pain general information
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Back Pain
Back pain tutorial - prevention
Please visit the abdominal breathing section of the downloads page on the youbreathe website : http://www.youbreathe.com/
Hope this is all clear.
Have a great week.
This week I want to talk a little about using youbreathe and it's potential effects on back pain. Seems like a strange connection to make, but there could actually be a strong benefit of regular youbreathe use on treating back pain.
Let me explain. One chronic problem that can lead to very diverse negative symptoms is chronic hyperventilation (breathing to much and too quickly). Most people actually breathe too much and this has been explained as a probable cause of many diseases such as some cases of asthma and various cardiovascular diseases. Now when you hyperventilate your blood carbon dioxide level goes down which leads to a removal of the neural drive to the breathing muscles. So if the drive to the diaphragm is lower it means the diaphragm is in a more relaxed state. The diaphragm also has a role to play in core stability and stabilising the mid to lower spine, so this means that a more relaxed diaphragm gives less support to the lower back, possibly risking injury.
Additionally, chest breathing and not using the diaphragm means that you are not going to oxygenate the blood very well, and also the blood will become more alkaline, meaning oxygen transport is compromised.
This has certainly been my experience. I have suffered from back pain since I was in my mid teens but since developing youbreathe and using it regularly my back pain has cleared up. I still do my stretching as a flexible back is also very important for injury prevention and health. For more info on youbreathe please visit www.youbreathe.com
There are too many potential symptoms for me to cover in this blog, but the exciting part is that using youbreathe with it's vibration can enable people to relearn abdominal breathing quickly and permanently.
For more info on back pain please visit these sites:
NHS - Back Pain
Back pain general information
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Back Pain
Back pain tutorial - prevention
Please visit the abdominal breathing section of the downloads page on the youbreathe website : http://www.youbreathe.com/
Hope this is all clear.
Have a great week.
Sunday 3 June 2007
What is youbreathe?
Hi,
Some feedback I have had about this blog from friends is people reading this might not know what youbreathe is. So this week I will explain a little more about youbreathe but without trying to make this into a sales pitch.
youbreathe is a hand-held device that applies the principles of vibration to the breathing muscles. There are currently several respiratory muscle training products on the market but non of them utilise vibration. So youbreathe allows people to train their breathing muscles without any discomfort or great effort. We have submitted some results recently showing that using this device for a little as 10 breaths can increase breathing performance by up to 15%. Obviously when you train long term the benefits are much greater than this. So breathing in and out of youbreathe for around 5 mins a day, 5 days a week can have amazing effects on performance.
Another colleague who is a national strength and conditioning association coach has been using youbreathe and found that when he goes for a run he gets into the zone so quickly since using youbreathe. Again this is great for me to hear that something I invented can actually help someone. For more info please see www.youbreathe.com.
OK, I hope this clears up what youbreathe is.
I am going to start working on some youbreathe exercises that are combined with eastern philosophy and some visualisation exercises, as training the body and mind is far superior to training just the body.
Ok have a great week, see you next post.
Bye
Some feedback I have had about this blog from friends is people reading this might not know what youbreathe is. So this week I will explain a little more about youbreathe but without trying to make this into a sales pitch.
youbreathe is a hand-held device that applies the principles of vibration to the breathing muscles. There are currently several respiratory muscle training products on the market but non of them utilise vibration. So youbreathe allows people to train their breathing muscles without any discomfort or great effort. We have submitted some results recently showing that using this device for a little as 10 breaths can increase breathing performance by up to 15%. Obviously when you train long term the benefits are much greater than this. So breathing in and out of youbreathe for around 5 mins a day, 5 days a week can have amazing effects on performance.
Another colleague who is a national strength and conditioning association coach has been using youbreathe and found that when he goes for a run he gets into the zone so quickly since using youbreathe. Again this is great for me to hear that something I invented can actually help someone. For more info please see www.youbreathe.com.
OK, I hope this clears up what youbreathe is.
I am going to start working on some youbreathe exercises that are combined with eastern philosophy and some visualisation exercises, as training the body and mind is far superior to training just the body.
Ok have a great week, see you next post.
Bye
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