Day 03
Breathe 14-Day Program • 14m
You may not know it, but if you’ve done Day 1 and Day 2, your breathing has gotten better. But, there’s still lots of work to do. You are now working on turning your ribcage into a thoracic cavity. What’s the difference? Well, a cage is a box with bars on it. It doesn’t flex and it doesn’t move. We don’t want that. We want to bring pliability back to our thoracic cavity. So, in Day 3, you will repeat The Sequence, and will add on Exhale Pulsations and we introduce you to the Intercostal Stretch. Finally, you should have taken your BIQ before starting the program. After today, we will retake your BIQ to see if you’ve made objective improvement in your breathing.
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Day 04
Today we focus on pelvic floor contractions on our exhale. This is important for a complete exhale. Again, you can only inhale to the extent that you’ve made room on your inhale. The better your exhale, the more fresh oxygen you can take in on the subsequent inhale. All the exercises today wi...
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Day 05
We want to turn our “ribcage” into a “thoracic cavity”. Why? Well, a cage is a fixed, firm box with bars on it. It doesn’t flex. It doesn’t move. Unfortunately, most of us do have a ribcage with stiff intercostals between our ribs as well as stiff abdominal muscles and obliques. The exercis...
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Day 06
At this point, your horizontal breathing should be starting to feel more natural. Building on that, today we focus specifically on strengthening our exhale muscles. By now, you know how important strengthening these muscles is. The exercises today are a few familiar ones: Rock and Roll and Exh...
