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Biologically women have smaller lungs and airways and weaker respiratory muscles than #men, which makes breathing during exercise much harder work and could be a contributing factor in fitness levels in women. If women were to use POWERbreathe to subject their inspiratory muscles to an appropriate training resistance, their breathing muscles will adapt, increasing in strength, power and stamina!
#POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training: • Speeded-up lactate clearance more effectively than traditional active recovery strategies REFERENCES: Gaspar Chiappa et al ‘Blood Lactate during Recovery from Intense Exercise: Impact of Inspiratory Loading’ Peter Brown et al ‘Inspiratory muscle training reduces blood lactate concentration during volitional hyperpnoea’
Breathlessness is a common feature of lung and heart disease, but as we know all too well, it’s also a feature of normal exercise. Research has shown that the strength of the inspiratory muscles has a direct influence on how hard we can breathe and how breathless we feel whilst doing it. If the muscles are weakened or fatigued (inspiratory muscles can fatigue by as much as 20%) then we can't breathe as hard and breathing requires greater effort; we experience the effort as breathlessness.
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Research evidence suggests that during heavy exercise, blood flow (and hence oxygen delivery) to the exercising legs is inversely related to respiratory work. What this tells us is that the inspiratory muscles are capable of stealing blood from the locomotor muscles, and in so doing, they can impair performance.
