How to pump up the breathing chamber?

“The winner is the one who is able to maintain his breathing rhythm” - Muhammad Ali.

Agree, any athlete, in order to feel full, definitely needs to know how to pump up the respiratory tract. This is natural, because the greater a person’s vital lung capacity, the more oxygen he will pump into the body, which will help him do more work without experiencing difficulty breathing. And it doesn’t matter at all: he is a bodybuilder or a fitness model, or a representative of any other sports discipline...

Essentially, your lungs develop when, through breathing movements of varying intensities, some amount of air enters them and after each such movement, you will be able to inhale a little more than before. There are several good options that can really pump up your breathing chamber.

This can be done effectively with the help of special exercises that can be easily performed at home, or by including running, race walking, and skiing in your “training diet.”

At home, you can practice inflating and deflating a balloon; you need to do such basic repetitions until you feel that you are inhaling more air than at the beginning of the lesson. By the way, I think you’ve seen this trick at least once in your life, when seasoned athletes inflate rubber heating pads until they burst? You need to start small - so the balls will help you at first...

During everyday work, you can inhale air for 25 seconds and exhale also, constantly, slowly, increasing the interval. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise you may feel a little dizzy at first, but over time it will pass and you will be able to inhale volumes of oxygen within 2 minutes.

Another way, more like a game, but nevertheless good, is to stick a long strip of paper to your nose and blow on it, trying to keep it in the air for as long as possible.

By participating in various active games you can also develop your lung capacity. An active football or basketball game outside in good weather will only have a positive effect on the physical potential of your lungs...

Another great recipe is swimming. A swimmer, moving very intensely in the water, needs to clearly maintain the rhythm of breathing, without this there is no way. So be sure to purchase a pool pass.

I think it’s no secret how important lungs are in boxing. Working intensively with his arms and legs, moving, while constantly receiving blows, and not just simple blows, but blows aimed at knocking down the windpipe, the boxer must still remain capable for a long time... How do they achieve this? - very simple:

1. Jumping rope is another great exercise for training your lungs. Simplicity, like a rake, and yet, the most effective and efficient.
2. Pear work. Do you think: punching a punching bag only develops the power of impact and the strength of your fists? - but no. Prolonged work on a punching bag will exhaust you worse than any running. Don't believe me? – try and compare for yourself...
3. Sparring. Your opponent will try to get ahead of you. He will act faster, sharper, more cunning. In addition to your head, he will deliberately hit you in the stomach and solar plexus, disrupting your breathing rhythm... But isn’t this excellent training for your lungs? There was no running or even working on a hanging bag even close...