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Breath coaching offers practical tools that can positively impact both your everyday life and your fitness performance. Your breath is directly connected to your nervous system, meaning how you breathe influences how you feel, think, and respond to stress. By learning to breathe more efficiently, you can improve focus, manage emotional pressure, and create a greater sense of calm throughout the day. Simple breathing techniques can help you regulate energy levels, improve sleep quality, and recover more effectively from the demands of modern life.
In day-to-day situations, conscious breathing can be used to reduce stress, anxiety, and mental fatigue. Whether you’re preparing for a busy workday, navigating challenging conversations, or winding down in the evening, breathwork helps shift your body from a constant “fight or flight” state into one of balance and control. Over time, this increased awareness builds resilience, allowing you to respond rather than react to life’s challenges.
Within fitness and physical training, breath coaching plays a key role in performance, endurance, and recovery. Proper breathing supports better oxygen delivery, improved posture, and more efficient movement patterns. Learning when to control, slow, or energize your breath can enhance strength output, stamina, and coordination, while also reducing unnecessary tension and injury risk. Breath control during rest periods and post-training helps speed up recovery and improve overall training consistency.
Ultimately, breath coaching bridges the gap between physical performance and mental wellbeing. By integrating conscious breathing into both daily routines and fitness practices, you gain a powerful, always-available tool to improve how you move, train, and live.
" We take our first breath coming into this world and our last breath as we leave, lets explore (optimise) what we do with with it in-between" David "Jacko" Jackson
Our breath is key to our health, both mental and physical. Our bodies do it without us even thinking about it. So why do we need to train it?
As with most things in life, over time we can pick up bad habits and get into unhealthy patterns with our breathing which can lead to issues with our health both mental and physical. The breath is closely linked to the nervous system which in turn governs our Heart rate, Breath rate, Cognitive functions etc. So why not train your breathing the way you train your body?
And yes, we can train our breathing. Im not just talking about Pranayama practices, though they can be part of it.
In the Oxygen Advantage we take a look at your personal breathing bio chemistry, bio mechanics and your psychophysiological relationship to your breath.
The aim is to undo the bad habbits and return the body to a healthy state of functional breathing to increase the delivery of oxygen to the brain and tissues in the body.
Oxygen Advantage was founded by Patrick McKeown and it is a system based in scientific study (closely related to the Buteyko Method which some of you may have heard of). What i find particularly beautiful is how so much of the science matches up with what the ancient yogi's were teaching thousands of years ago. Somewhere along the line those teachings got lost and now they are coming back with some science to back them up. How wonderful is that.
There are two pillars to Oxygen Advantage. The functional breath training and the Simulation of high altitude training.
Functional breath training is for everyone.
The Simulation of high altitude training is once functional breathing is maintained only if you wish to take your breathing to the next level. More suitable for Athletes and Yogis alike.