Activeforever PowerLung User Manual
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Peak Performance Training Begins with PowerLung
Applying this theory to the fact the respiratory muscles are trainable; so increasing the strength of the
respiratory muscles combined with the power and endurance training, would increase their endurance
capacity. Boutellier
3,4
showed in his 1992 papers with both sedentary people and endurance trained athletes
that respiratory training improved the endurance of the respiratory muscles by over 300% with the sedentary
people, and over 600% with endurance trained athletes. Neither showed an increase in VO
2
max, but both
showed a large increase in sub-maximal exercise time, sedentary, 50%; endurance trained, 38%. This would
suggest, confirmed by Boutellier himself, that “the respiratory system is an exercise limiting factor in normal,
endurance trained subjects”, as well as sedentary subjects.
All these studies, which look at respiratory training, can be applied
to PowerLung. This is because PowerLung is a respiratory trainer
that trains the re spiratory muscles. A ll these studies train the
respiratory muscles to prove or disprove their hypotheses. The
respiratory muscles are being used to do the work. Taking the
example of a bench press, it has been shown that this exercise
strengthens, for simplicity’s sake, the chest. The weight is just a
catalyst for that. It doesn’t matter who made the weight just that
t he w e ig ht e n a bl e s t h e p er s on t o pe r f or m th e t a sk .
In conclusion, using PowerLung increases respiratory muscle strength leading to performance improvements
at any level. It also reduces the feeling of breathlessness as it specifically warms up the respiratory muscles.
It also decreases the perception of dyspnoea as a result of improved performance and efficiency, and through
the body being warmed up properly.
Do your training programs incorporate respiratory training to help give
the athletes you train the oxygen they need to perform better?
CPWT-PEAKPR
Thanks to Mr. Anthony Scoon for his contributions to this document.
The 3 Components Of Training.