Holding your breath will help you swim long distances underwater, and in some cases it can even save your life. There are many exercises to help develop the breathing muscles and lungs along with it. Let's take a look at one very effective exercise for holding your breath for a long time.
Instructions
Step 1
Learning to hold your breath for a long time in one day will not work. You need to exercise regularly. Classes need to begin with the setting of correct breathing. The exercises are performed while standing or sitting, with the chest, head and neck in a straight line.
Step 2
First, exhale as much as possible. Exhale evenly and smoothly. In this case, the air must pass without tension. Then take a breath: first, the diaphragm expands, then the lower part of the ribs moves apart, then the middle and only at the end of the upper part of the chest. Do not protrude the diaphragm. Full breathing does not necessarily mean filling your lungs to their maximum. The main thing is to evenly distribute the inhaled air over the lungs.
Step 3
Then take several full, deep breaths in a row to keep your lungs as full as possible, and hold the breath as deep in your chest as you can. When you feel that you can no longer hold air in your lungs, you can no longer force it out through your mouth. This operation must be repeated several times.
Step 4
A person who began to practice these exercises will not be able to hold his breath for a long time at first. However, constant training will greatly enhance his ability. Arm yourself with a watch and track how long you could not breathe.
Step 5
If you train your breathing constantly, then ultimately your exercises will lead to an expansion of the chest and an increase in their supply of life. By the way, yogis have found that holding the breath benefits both the respiratory and digestive organs, as well as the nervous system and blood in general. They argue that holding your breath helps the body to collect waste products that have accumulated in the lungs. The air released from the lungs after holding the breath carries them with it.
Step 6
This exercise is recommended by yogis all over the world for the treatment of stomach disorders, liver diseases, as well as for the treatment of blood diseases. In addition, holding your breath can relieve a person of bad breath. Since in some cases it appears only from insufficient ventilation of the lungs.
