Breathing helps bring oxygen to the muscles, helps you relax, slows heart rate, and increases endurance

Application during Exercise

Be sure to develop a steady pattern of breathing while you exercise.

Breathe in through your nose, and excel through your mouth. If you breathe in through your mouth, that’s when you can start gasping for air, and your mouth just starts to burn. If this is the case, you aren’t doing it correctly.

Inhale during the recovery part of your exercise, and exhale during the exertion part of the exercise’s movement.

It’s important to breathe properly.  Breathing properly helps you keep your form, prevents injury and unnecessary fatigue. If you want to go the extra mile, or beat your personal best, breathing properly among other things is a sure way to increase your productivity while exercising.

Application for Everyday

It is important to get enough oxygen in our bodies, and most people don’t get enough on a regular basis.

So how can you make sure that you are getting enough oxygen in your body? An easy way to practice how to breathe properly, is to first lay down. Put your hand on your stomach. You should notice that when you take in a breath, your stomach should rise. When you exhale, your stomach should drop or sink in.

Take in slow, deep breaths to fill the lungs full of oxygen, and slowly release it.

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