PowerBreathe, any experience?

[Fab Foodie]

I'm thinking of purchasing one of these

http://www.powerbreathe.com/select-model/sport-fitness/select-model-sport-fitness-cycling.html

Most likely the classic medium resistance, to improve not just my cycling, but my Sax playing and general alertness and stair climbing ability.

Most here will know that I'm on medication for CHD and and 20+ years Old-Holborn habit. Whilst exercising and blowing my horn (cue Fnarr) I tend to find that my lungs seem the limitation rather than anything else.
For £30 it seems worth a punt. Also it's a bit of training I can do when travelling and jogging is not an option.

Views?

 

[woohoo]

I tried one for a couple of weeks but got fed up with all the (necessary) cleaning and drying. Not a fair trial, I know, but it does require a bit of maintenance.

 

[numbnuts]

I bought one a few years ago to help me with freediving/spearfishing, it worked, later I was diagnosed with emphysema, after all the tests I was told I have the lung capacity of a 21 year old, I was 49, but I’ve always had large lungs if fact they can’t see them all on one x-ray they end up having to do top and bottom.
I think it has helped, but it is such a boring exercise one gives up well I did...

 

[jimboalee]

I found a good exercise for the diaphragm was blowing up a hot water bottle.

Seriously though, there are long balloons in party shops. They are about five inches diameter and about a yard long.

The exercise is blowing it up with one exhale.

For 'both way' breathing, all that's needed is a mouthpiece on a resticted tube.
If the orifice is small enough, you will get 'choked flow' where the flow rate will not increase with any extra applied pressure.

I found a 3mm hole is a good start. It takes about 20 seconds to fully inhale, and of course about the same to exhale.

Don't do it too many times repeatedly, or you pass out.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I found a good exercise for the diaphragm was blowing up a hot water bottle.

Seriously though, there are long balloons in party shops. They are about five inches diameter and about a yard long.
The exercise is blowing it up with one exhale.

Or else buy a spirometer

http://www.medisave.co.uk/spirometry-c-347.html?gclid=CIuA34iK-ZwCFd0B4woduRwAcA

Thing is jimbo, these are about the INHALE rather than the exhale...

I seriously hoped you had an equation for this

 

[jimboalee]

I bought one a few years ago to help me with freediving/spearfishing, it worked, later I was diagnosed with emphysema, after all the tests I was told I have the lung capacity of a 21 year old, I was 49, but I’ve always had large lungs if fact they can’t see them all on one x-ray they end up having to do top and bottom.
I think it has helped, but it is such a boring exercise one gives up well I did...

I did freediving a few years back. Trevose Head, North Cornwall.

I prided myself as being able to swim 2 x 25m lengths of the gym's pool submerged.

I didn't buy a special piece of kit to build my lungs, just a length of plastic tube with a brass disc down it. A 3mm hole drilled through the brass disc.

It is a boring exercise, but well worth it when summer comes ( if it comes )

 

[jimboalee]

Thing is jimbo, these are about the INHALE rather than the exhale...

I seriously hoped you had an equation for this

I suddenly realised that, so edited my post.

It's all here,,,

http://www.pipeflowcalculations.com/venturi/index.htm

 

[Fab Foodie]

I suddenly realised that, so edited my post.

It's all here,,,

http://www.pipeflowcalculations.com/venturi/index.htm

That's better, I knew you'd find one...

Trevose head is one of the loveliest places in the world on a warm, evening when the sun sinks into the sea. My Will states that my ashes are to be scattered in the sea at Constantine bay and I'll drift by...

 

[jimboalee]

That's better, I knew you'd find one...

Trevose head is one of the loveliest places in the world on a warm, evening when the sun sinks into the sea. My Will states that my ashes are to be scattered in the sea at Constantine bay and I'll drift by...

My ex and I holidayed at M. Ivey's Bay for fourteen straight years.

I did prefer Constantine bay because it's real sand there, not the crushed shells on M. Ivey's bay.

My sons still go there, so I will warn them not to take a mouthful of seawater ( in many years from now ) because there might be small grey particles of cyclist in the water.

 

[02GF74]

can't you just hold your breathe foir a bit when excercising?

or stick your fingers into your nose?

on a similar topic, has ayone tried those nose strips that were the rage, musht be 10 years ago now - and did they make any noticeable improvement?

 

[Globalti]

Buy one of these and at least enjoy the breathing exercises?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Buy one of these and at least enjoy the breathing exercises?

I've already got an Alto Sax! That's hard enough and noisy enough!

 

[Crackle]

Did you get one of these FF? I just ordered one to help with my asthma, see if I can get some more air in through the small airways and generally improve my breathlessness, which is particularly evident when I'm running, which I am at the mo.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Did you get one of these FF? I just ordered one to help with my asthma, see if I can get some more air in through the small airways and generally improve my breathlessness, which is particularly evident when I'm running, which I am at the mo.

I Did!
And when it came I had stinker of a cold, so didn't get much use. Now starting again, but forget to use it now and then, need to get a routine. General feeling is that it will have some benefit if I use regularly. Can't do much harm other than waste a coulple of mins every day!

 

[ASC1951]

General feeling is that it will have some benefit if I use regularly. Can't do much harm other than waste a coulple of mins every day!

I used my red Powerbreathe for all of a week. Tedious or what!

I go swimming three times a week instead.