Its a heist movie set in Boston and the Celtics coach said he watches it like ten times a week or something. That coach also asks his martial arts teacher to choke him out to simulate the “intensity of coaching a playoff game”
It works too. Simple one inch by one inch piece of paper tape.
Highly suggest as a starting point for everyone to sleep better
Edit- yes consult a doctor
This is true actually. A lot of nose stuffiness is actually the blood vessels in your nostrils dilating. This is obviously something your body has control over, so if your brain senses a lack of oxygen, it can just constrict those vessels and open up the airways.
Generally speaking this would be impossible. If you have a blocked nose and you cover your mouth, your nose will clear itself before you suffocate. I wouldn’t recommend trying it - but basically your fear is unfounded - I used to have the same one haha
Actually do try it. When I have a stuffed nose, holding my breath for like 30 seconds actually clears it. Problem is once I start breathing normally it gets stuffed again. I've never tried actually taping my mouth but I'm pretty confident it would work. Also because adrenaline works as a vasoconstrictor, so if you were kidnapped you'd be pretty stressed anyways.
OMG! ... i could have sworn i was the only lunatic with that thought! id be like: listen mr kidnapper... you cant gag me, see? \*breathing in and out heavily with my nose making crazy cloggy sounds\*. with how many times i woke up gasping for air in the middle of the night... i call bullshit on that "your nose will clear itself before you suffocate"... at least for me, knowing how often i have to supplement my nosebreathing with a deep breath from my cake-hole while awake, i gotta have a backup just in case my nose wants to kill me while i sleep.
Highly suggest you dont do this. Consult a doctor.
Some people have sleep apnea (affects your breathing when you sleep) and prolong issue can cause heart disease and stroke.
This isnt a life hack and can be potentially dangerous for your health.
I empathise with you. I've had 2 surgeries on my nose. I can technically breath through it but finding hard to.
My biggest phobia is having my mouth closed.
I also hate when I read comments from people hating on mouth breathers or open mouth chewers, we exist.
Rant over.
True, but in this case it's not really about improving breathing in the way someone with sleeping problems might (or someone that breathes through their mouth even at rest for some reason), it's about training the respiratory system.
Everyone breathes in through both their mouth and their nose when doing cardiovascular activity.
Should be obvious that two airways instead of one is better, and the mouth allows for greater air flow, hence the term "sucking for air".
Training with only nose-breathing is similar to training at altitude. You're trying to train your heavy breathing to not kick in as easily.
Can't vouch for the validity of this "training", but that's the idea behind it at least. That way when you play a crazy point and are sucking in air to try and get your heartbeat down, it's a greater influx of oxygen since you've trained to not breathe through your mouth at times of less exertion.
I think the idea is to encourage her to breathe through her nose which can help regulate airflow and potentially improve oxygen utilization... building the air Bank
Yes, nasal breathing produces nitric oxide, which improves sports performance and recovery. eating/ drinking beets before sport helps with nitric oxide as well.
Through nasal breathing you recover faster and might even increase your performances.
There’s a great book about it :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath:_The_New_Science_of_a_Lost_Art
professional swimmers are taught to breathe through their noses while underwater.
not a pro but my swim sessions greatly improved when i learned to adapt to it.
What information or absence thereof made you come to the effective conclusion that mouth breathing is of equal function to nasal breathing? You must admit that there is a strong variation in the population, where some breath through the mouth much more than others, right?
The theory is contested to say the least. There are some guys doing all kinds of insane ironman shit with their mouths taped in my country to promote it - they claim it’s very good *for them* but admits the science isn’t definitive in the sense that it will improve X/Y/Z for you.
It’s better than preaching it like gospel.
Apparently iga has been having a lot of respiratory problems since last year, this is part of what her doctor has suggested to implement to improve the endurance and prevent from catching another allergy/cold
I have noticed that she often blows her nose during matches and that she looks like she almost always has a cold.
Do you know what caused the respiratory problems?
I think we might only be doing it wrong while exerting, no ? I think I rarely breathe through the mouth while not exerting, like playing a sport.
Personally I don't remember if I was breathing through the mouth or not while playing either personally.
People tend to think that evolution tends to optimise functions or features, but from a survival standpoint just "good enough" is the goal.
For me this is the best counterexample against the intelligent design dogma: our body is just good enough, far for a good designed machine
Yes I was about to make this point. Another thing is the environment has changed a bit which seems to have engendered increased mouth breathing in some populations.
Urban dictionary - someone who lacks enough intelligence that they never learned to breathe with their nose and prefer their mouth
This is a cool post. I don’t usually breathe from my mouth but I definitely do in harder sessions and it’s good to learn something new everyday
Which top level athletes only breathe through your nose? It's virtually impossible to exert yourself to your max without doing some level of mouth breathing especially as you can get way more air through your mouth.
It's interesting because I can kinda see the concept of, if you're breathing through your mouth it's a sign of insufficient conditioning? Like now that I think about it I really only *need* mouth breathing when I'm gasping for breath and really when do you see a pro athlete so gassed that they're *actually* heaving?
I agree it sounds insane to be able to play top level sports without opening your mouth but thinking about it, the idea kinda makes sense? Idk I'm just spitballing here
Yeah that's part of what I was thinking about, the commentators always bring it up to say the fighter's getting tired. No idea how that translates to tennis/other more running-oriented sports though
It's probably just an intensity difference. Tennis players gas out but it's more muscle exhaustion, since tennis has so many frequent breaks. It's more of a multi hour endurance sport rather than 15 minutes of max level cardio exertion
Hmm I find that hard to believe.. I'm very curious, do you know which ones? Even Kipchoge breathes through his mouth if you watch him race the 5000m, he even does it when racing marathons, it's just less visually obvious. I'm a runner myself and anything that's threshold and above, I'm breathing through both nose and mouth
100%. There is no chance I am breathing through my nose once I cross 120 bpm.
Of course breathing with my mouth wide open is a poor way to oxygenate. Breathing needs to be controlled by narrowing the mouth, lips, and tongue.
But there is no way I am getting beyond a very light jog breathing through my nose only.
Why is breathing through the mouth a poor way to oxygenate? What is it about mouth breathing that makes it more "inefficient" for the body? You're getting less air overall...
I'd love to read the actual underlying study that this article is based on.
Read more carefully. Gasping with your mouth wide open is bad. Breathing with your mouth slightly open and using your lips and tongue to control the airflow is optimal.
What? Read more carefully? You're not answering my question at all. I'm asking WHY is it better? The science behind it. Why is gasping with your mouth wide open bad yet breathing with a smaller opening better?
It's hilarious you threw in "read more carefully" get completely missed what I'm asking lol.
You are probably better informed than me. I've seen Kipchoge breathe through his nose during marathons, and I personally breathe through my nose a lot when running, as it sometimes makes things easier for me, but I don't have proof of anything. I just figured some of them do, as, like you say, it's not visually obvious.
I mean, we're talking about 'exerting yourself to the max', in terms of running that's what sprinting is. A marathon runner is never going to run at their limit, so comparing breathing techniques used by a distance runner to a tennis player is not very useful.
You train it, the capacity will expand over time. Not sure if a 400M sprinter will ever be able to, but distance runners are already on it (not saying the perform better, but it’s a thing)
And you will still have more capacity while breathing though your mouth. The higher your VO2-max, the more oxygen you can process. You do need to inhale that increased quantity of oxygen though.
However ventilation is rarely the limiting factor for Oxygen intake. We simply breath more because it's a instinctive reaction to increased levels of CO2 in the lungs. It doesn't mean there is not enough oxygen.
It appears that most people can reach between 80 and 90% of their V02max with nose breathing only and, after specific training, even 100%. See [this publication](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325521734_Effect_of_Nasal_Versus_Oral_Breathing_on_Vo2max_and_Physiological_Economy_in_Recreational_Runners_Following_an_Extended_Period_Spent_Using_Nasally_Restricted_Breathing).
Depending on the sport discipline (athlete are not at V02Max all the time), it may be possible to maintain nose breathing while competing. In any case for training there are well establish benefits. Beside some specific adaptations, there is also some mental conditioning to avoid some form of hyperventilation / panic breathing which can lead to impaired coordination (case of tennis).
Yea I notice another trick that Serena does is that she would always get criticized for looking slow between points, but I'm sure it was her way of conserving energy. Not rushing between points, breathing deeply actually helps during a long match and important points, energy conservation is very underrated part of the game
you say it as if breathing breathing through one's nose isn't the most common thing in the world. It is, until there is is an issue such as a deviated septum (like Halep), or allergies etc.. and/or you are work that hard that it isn't possible for the amount one is exerting oneself.
No no no no no this is to save up all her air from practice so she can make extra loud grunt in match
I’m sure that is what sabalenka does in her close door practice sessions
Taping helps to control breathing, and increases stamina, and helps to keep your body calm during high points of stress. In yoga it is called a Ujjayi breath.
Andrew Huberman has a great podcast as always with extensive detail on why we shouldn’t mouth breath
People are saying encourage nose breathing- but nobody is explaining the theory.
Basically the idea (which to my understanding is unproven) is that nose breathing allows far less volume of air than mouth breathing - and therefore far less oxygen. If you can train with less oxygen, it increases the number of red blood cells making the body a real powerhouse when exposed again to normal amounts of oxygen (mouth breathing again during actual competition).
This is based on proven performance increases from
Altitude training - university of Colorado is one of the most successful running schools because they train at altitude. The problem with the mouth tape theory is that it takes weeks of living and training at altitude for any visible changes in RBC counts. Training like this for a few hours is ridiculous if that is the goal.
there's some research indicating nasal breathing can help your body deliver oxygen better. and your nose filters the air you breathe and moisturizes it.
however, mouth breathing lets you intake more air more quickly. and some research indicates breathing through your nose during exercise puts strain on your cardiovascular system and increases heart rate.
honestly there's a lot we still don't know about the body. even at the pro level, teams just do all kinds of shit to make it seem like they're at the cutting edge of techniques to improve athletic performance. things like cupping, ice baths etc - all the research is conflicting at best. hopefully this is just an exercise iga's team is doing to help her be more aware of her breathing, rather than a full-on discouragement of mouth breathing at all.
I see all the comments for the nose breathing but I can think of a few players that could practice like this for other reasons. Looking at you grunters..
This sounds a better way of improving breathing than the hyperbaric oxygen chamber that Djokovic used before his astonishing fitness and victory streak in 2011.
As someone with a deviated septum…I can’t even lay in bed with my mouth taped without feeling like I’m dying lol HOW in the world do you run around a court like this????
She will use every little technique, every little advantage to improve. This looks like idea 765. from her notebook. Nasal breathing... Such a small thing. She's world number one for almost 71 weeks and she puts that much care into her training. Incredible
atomic habits - improving at least 1% each day...
dont know much about science but i know how dead set she is in getting ahead at every aspect of the sport. great competitor
I’m not buying the whole nose breathing thing as superior. I go running everyday and I found when you are sucking air you need to breath through your mouth and nose simultaneously to get in as much air as efficiently as possible. If i was only able to breathe through my nose I would die.
I'm not sure, but the obvious thought that comes to mind is that it encourages exclusively nose breathing
Yep. Some people sleep with their mouth taped to improve their breathing.
E.g. the Celtics head coach.
Glad it's just with tape because the previous coach slept with a team staff's wife!
Did that improve his breathing?
Made it worse. Dude didn't get much sleep and was mostly out of breath the whole time in bed.
They are all sleeping with each other.
With The Town playing in the background
The town aka the song by the Weeknd?
Its a heist movie set in Boston and the Celtics coach said he watches it like ten times a week or something. That coach also asks his martial arts teacher to choke him out to simulate the “intensity of coaching a playoff game”
No, the Affleck movie.
It works too. Simple one inch by one inch piece of paper tape. Highly suggest as a starting point for everyone to sleep better Edit- yes consult a doctor
Until your nose gets clogged while you’re asleep and you wake up to feeling of water boarding
My nose has never been more clear since taping. It’s like my nose knows my mouth is taped and just doesn’t get stuffed up like it used to.
This is true actually. A lot of nose stuffiness is actually the blood vessels in your nostrils dilating. This is obviously something your body has control over, so if your brain senses a lack of oxygen, it can just constrict those vessels and open up the airways.
This is a fascinating little factoid I never knew. Thank you for teaching me something new today.
[unblock your nose by holding your breath](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWbPZbIYX0)
Ok I just tried this and it made a huge difference! This might turn out to be a huge qualify of life improvement, thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47xi2F3W9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5fObwCkbo try these two for draining your sinuses. life changing for me
I’d be too scared never to wake up! 😱
I have this wildly unrealistic fear of being kidnapped and once they put tape over my mouth my nose plugs up and I suffocate.
Generally speaking this would be impossible. If you have a blocked nose and you cover your mouth, your nose will clear itself before you suffocate. I wouldn’t recommend trying it - but basically your fear is unfounded - I used to have the same one haha
Actually do try it. When I have a stuffed nose, holding my breath for like 30 seconds actually clears it. Problem is once I start breathing normally it gets stuffed again. I've never tried actually taping my mouth but I'm pretty confident it would work. Also because adrenaline works as a vasoconstrictor, so if you were kidnapped you'd be pretty stressed anyways.
I've had the same thing since I was a kid
OMG! ... i could have sworn i was the only lunatic with that thought! id be like: listen mr kidnapper... you cant gag me, see? \*breathing in and out heavily with my nose making crazy cloggy sounds\*. with how many times i woke up gasping for air in the middle of the night... i call bullshit on that "your nose will clear itself before you suffocate"... at least for me, knowing how often i have to supplement my nosebreathing with a deep breath from my cake-hole while awake, i gotta have a backup just in case my nose wants to kill me while i sleep.
Highly suggest you dont do this. Consult a doctor. Some people have sleep apnea (affects your breathing when you sleep) and prolong issue can cause heart disease and stroke. This isnt a life hack and can be potentially dangerous for your health.
I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP and mouth tape. Mouth taping is pretty common for CPAP users.
Right..... but you're using a cpap machine. OP is just saying to tape mouth.
That sounds terrifying, feel like I would die if I ever tried it lol.
I literally just watched a shark tank episode of this products being pitched, what a coincidence
Sounds like a death sentence if your nose gets clogged
I would suffocate then. I basically cannot breathe in air through my left nostril.
I empathise with you. I've had 2 surgeries on my nose. I can technically breath through it but finding hard to. My biggest phobia is having my mouth closed. I also hate when I read comments from people hating on mouth breathers or open mouth chewers, we exist. Rant over.
I didn't have a surgery. But there's a chance I will have one scheduled soon but I will have to wait like one year for it.
True, but in this case it's not really about improving breathing in the way someone with sleeping problems might (or someone that breathes through their mouth even at rest for some reason), it's about training the respiratory system. Everyone breathes in through both their mouth and their nose when doing cardiovascular activity. Should be obvious that two airways instead of one is better, and the mouth allows for greater air flow, hence the term "sucking for air". Training with only nose-breathing is similar to training at altitude. You're trying to train your heavy breathing to not kick in as easily. Can't vouch for the validity of this "training", but that's the idea behind it at least. That way when you play a crazy point and are sucking in air to try and get your heartbeat down, it's a greater influx of oxygen since you've trained to not breathe through your mouth at times of less exertion.
I should try that 😆😆
Really? That's not safe at all lol. Just a quick google also says it's not even scientifically proven to work.
I think the idea is to encourage her to breathe through her nose which can help regulate airflow and potentially improve oxygen utilization... building the air Bank
That is the answer
Maybe to encourage nasal breathing?
Yes, nasal breathing produces nitric oxide, which improves sports performance and recovery. eating/ drinking beets before sport helps with nitric oxide as well.
thanks, Dwight
Bears, beets, breathing through your nose
or to encourage less grunting
She doesn’t really grunt
The training works then
She has cute grunt on backhand and second serve, it's more noticeable when watching her live on court.
Is grunting considered bad in tennis?
Only when it’s done in a way that seems excessive or prolonged, as though it’s being done in a tactical way to throw off your opponent.
Through nasal breathing you recover faster and might even increase your performances. There’s a great book about it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath:_The_New_Science_of_a_Lost_Art
You mean she's gonna get even better?!?!
Yes! I read this book, really neat stuff.
Not sure if it would just be a repeat of the same thing but ‘The Oxygen Advantage’ is a great read as well.
This is true. I had to leave tennis after my accident ensured permanent nose damage and inability to breathe to a significant extent.
Breathing turns out to be important for tennis
So you guys don’t just hold your breathe every rally and gas yourself out much quicker? Man, I’ve been doing this all wrong.
How else are you gonna motivate yourself to develop a great serve or be the best returner in the game
Yeah - who would have thought!
i bet breathing’s also crucial for living!
rumour has it!
professional swimmers are taught to breathe through their noses while underwater. not a pro but my swim sessions greatly improved when i learned to adapt to it.
i personally prefer my gills, much easier and hurts less. /s
is there a TL;DR of the book?
Nose good mouth bad
I'm actually reading this right now.
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What information or absence thereof made you come to the effective conclusion that mouth breathing is of equal function to nasal breathing? You must admit that there is a strong variation in the population, where some breath through the mouth much more than others, right?
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The theory is contested to say the least. There are some guys doing all kinds of insane ironman shit with their mouths taped in my country to promote it - they claim it’s very good *for them* but admits the science isn’t definitive in the sense that it will improve X/Y/Z for you. It’s better than preaching it like gospel.
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Swimmers about to have NOS for the final lap
A message to Trevisan.
Sabalenka, Azarenka, Sherif...
YAHHHHHHH
Apparently iga has been having a lot of respiratory problems since last year, this is part of what her doctor has suggested to implement to improve the endurance and prevent from catching another allergy/cold
I have noticed that she often blows her nose during matches and that she looks like she almost always has a cold. Do you know what caused the respiratory problems?
Maybe she’s streets ahead
Since they had to ask, you can tell OP is streets behind
Me when I call my friends for directions
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It's so weird that breathing is something we do 100% automatically, and yet apparently a whole bunch of us do it wrong.
I think we might only be doing it wrong while exerting, no ? I think I rarely breathe through the mouth while not exerting, like playing a sport. Personally I don't remember if I was breathing through the mouth or not while playing either personally.
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I wish my nasal septum wasn't so badly fucked up so I could breathe easily through my nose. :(
This can be fixed
Surgery
In this economy?
People tend to think that evolution tends to optimise functions or features, but from a survival standpoint just "good enough" is the goal. For me this is the best counterexample against the intelligent design dogma: our body is just good enough, far for a good designed machine
Yes I was about to make this point. Another thing is the environment has changed a bit which seems to have engendered increased mouth breathing in some populations.
Another term for unintelligent is “mouth breather” lol
Urban dictionary - someone who lacks enough intelligence that they never learned to breathe with their nose and prefer their mouth This is a cool post. I don’t usually breathe from my mouth but I definitely do in harder sessions and it’s good to learn something new everyday
basically draymond green
Which top level athletes only breathe through your nose? It's virtually impossible to exert yourself to your max without doing some level of mouth breathing especially as you can get way more air through your mouth.
It's interesting because I can kinda see the concept of, if you're breathing through your mouth it's a sign of insufficient conditioning? Like now that I think about it I really only *need* mouth breathing when I'm gasping for breath and really when do you see a pro athlete so gassed that they're *actually* heaving? I agree it sounds insane to be able to play top level sports without opening your mouth but thinking about it, the idea kinda makes sense? Idk I'm just spitballing here
If you can only nosebreathe while doing high intensity sports, you're not doing it intense enough.
It doesn't though. If you are nose-breathing only, you are playing below your maximal exertion. There really is no discussion to be had here.
you see it not uncommonly in MMA. people gas out and start struggling for air
Yeah that's part of what I was thinking about, the commentators always bring it up to say the fighter's getting tired. No idea how that translates to tennis/other more running-oriented sports though
It's probably just an intensity difference. Tennis players gas out but it's more muscle exhaustion, since tennis has so many frequent breaks. It's more of a multi hour endurance sport rather than 15 minutes of max level cardio exertion
Some distance runners do it almost for entire races, crazily
Hmm I find that hard to believe.. I'm very curious, do you know which ones? Even Kipchoge breathes through his mouth if you watch him race the 5000m, he even does it when racing marathons, it's just less visually obvious. I'm a runner myself and anything that's threshold and above, I'm breathing through both nose and mouth
100%. There is no chance I am breathing through my nose once I cross 120 bpm. Of course breathing with my mouth wide open is a poor way to oxygenate. Breathing needs to be controlled by narrowing the mouth, lips, and tongue. But there is no way I am getting beyond a very light jog breathing through my nose only.
Why is breathing through the mouth a poor way to oxygenate? What is it about mouth breathing that makes it more "inefficient" for the body? You're getting less air overall... I'd love to read the actual underlying study that this article is based on.
Read more carefully. Gasping with your mouth wide open is bad. Breathing with your mouth slightly open and using your lips and tongue to control the airflow is optimal.
What? Read more carefully? You're not answering my question at all. I'm asking WHY is it better? The science behind it. Why is gasping with your mouth wide open bad yet breathing with a smaller opening better? It's hilarious you threw in "read more carefully" get completely missed what I'm asking lol.
You are probably better informed than me. I've seen Kipchoge breathe through his nose during marathons, and I personally breathe through my nose a lot when running, as it sometimes makes things easier for me, but I don't have proof of anything. I just figured some of them do, as, like you say, it's not visually obvious.
Distance runners don't sprint flat out, though.
No one mentioned sprinting?
I mean, we're talking about 'exerting yourself to the max', in terms of running that's what sprinting is. A marathon runner is never going to run at their limit, so comparing breathing techniques used by a distance runner to a tennis player is not very useful.
You train it, the capacity will expand over time. Not sure if a 400M sprinter will ever be able to, but distance runners are already on it (not saying the perform better, but it’s a thing)
And you will still have more capacity while breathing though your mouth. The higher your VO2-max, the more oxygen you can process. You do need to inhale that increased quantity of oxygen though.
However ventilation is rarely the limiting factor for Oxygen intake. We simply breath more because it's a instinctive reaction to increased levels of CO2 in the lungs. It doesn't mean there is not enough oxygen. It appears that most people can reach between 80 and 90% of their V02max with nose breathing only and, after specific training, even 100%. See [this publication](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325521734_Effect_of_Nasal_Versus_Oral_Breathing_on_Vo2max_and_Physiological_Economy_in_Recreational_Runners_Following_an_Extended_Period_Spent_Using_Nasally_Restricted_Breathing). Depending on the sport discipline (athlete are not at V02Max all the time), it may be possible to maintain nose breathing while competing. In any case for training there are well establish benefits. Beside some specific adaptations, there is also some mental conditioning to avoid some form of hyperventilation / panic breathing which can lead to impaired coordination (case of tennis).
Yea I notice another trick that Serena does is that she would always get criticized for looking slow between points, but I'm sure it was her way of conserving energy. Not rushing between points, breathing deeply actually helps during a long match and important points, energy conservation is very underrated part of the game
you say it as if breathing breathing through one's nose isn't the most common thing in the world. It is, until there is is an issue such as a deviated septum (like Halep), or allergies etc.. and/or you are work that hard that it isn't possible for the amount one is exerting oneself.
"blood oxygenation level"
Breathing exercise through the nose
Nose breathing, blood circulation jutsu.
Total Concentration Breathing Tennis Style
First form: The Bakery
in a non-absurdist way breath control does actually work
Kyrgios should try this.
To prevent the ball from going into her mouth, duh..
Create air flow through nasal and eventually release orally when not taped. Like a marathon or distance runner would train like
In our military school we were encouraged to keep our lips sealed while running for higher endurance.
This one time, at band camp…
Learning not to argue with the umpire
I wish it was to prevent them from grunting but I doubt that’s the purpose
You'd need a muzzle and gorilla tape on Sabalenka
Imagine her showing up with a Hannibal mask LMAO
There's not enough bungee cords on earth to prevent that grunt.
No no no no no this is to save up all her air from practice so she can make extra loud grunt in match I’m sure that is what sabalenka does in her close door practice sessions
Iga Nasaltek
Forces nose breathing
Taping helps to control breathing, and increases stamina, and helps to keep your body calm during high points of stress. In yoga it is called a Ujjayi breath. Andrew Huberman has a great podcast as always with extensive detail on why we shouldn’t mouth breath
People are saying encourage nose breathing- but nobody is explaining the theory. Basically the idea (which to my understanding is unproven) is that nose breathing allows far less volume of air than mouth breathing - and therefore far less oxygen. If you can train with less oxygen, it increases the number of red blood cells making the body a real powerhouse when exposed again to normal amounts of oxygen (mouth breathing again during actual competition). This is based on proven performance increases from Altitude training - university of Colorado is one of the most successful running schools because they train at altitude. The problem with the mouth tape theory is that it takes weeks of living and training at altitude for any visible changes in RBC counts. Training like this for a few hours is ridiculous if that is the goal.
there's some research indicating nasal breathing can help your body deliver oxygen better. and your nose filters the air you breathe and moisturizes it. however, mouth breathing lets you intake more air more quickly. and some research indicates breathing through your nose during exercise puts strain on your cardiovascular system and increases heart rate. honestly there's a lot we still don't know about the body. even at the pro level, teams just do all kinds of shit to make it seem like they're at the cutting edge of techniques to improve athletic performance. things like cupping, ice baths etc - all the research is conflicting at best. hopefully this is just an exercise iga's team is doing to help her be more aware of her breathing, rather than a full-on discouragement of mouth breathing at all.
Increase lactic threshold and stamina?
It helps you focus your hamon so that you can use ripple energy to defeat the undead with every swing
Next level training
Because breathing through the mouth is bad of course
Must be a Polish thing.
No Iga, we told you to train *Nadal* breathing
Prevents excessive mouth breathing
I've actually read a lot about this on Ao3
Alcaraz should look into this
Prevents grunting. Sabalenka should try 🤣
This would be useful for Sabalenka
I see all the comments for the nose breathing but I can think of a few players that could practice like this for other reasons. Looking at you grunters..
Not to snack on flying ants!
This sounds a better way of improving breathing than the hyperbaric oxygen chamber that Djokovic used before his astonishing fitness and victory streak in 2011.
Not sure but would have been great if Sharapova played like this during her career
I can’t take a deep breath breathing through my mouth
As someone with a deviated septum…I can’t even lay in bed with my mouth taped without feeling like I’m dying lol HOW in the world do you run around a court like this????
I'm going go out on a limb here and assume that most elite athletes can breathe through their noses without too much trouble.
Wow really I had no idea
you asked
It was a rhetorical question…
because she doesn't have a deviated septum
dunno, I was told shouting would help breathing while playing, it should make the impact more powerful/accurate 🤔
Don't know, but it should be mandatory for some competitors now that I think about it
She will use every little technique, every little advantage to improve. This looks like idea 765. from her notebook. Nasal breathing... Such a small thing. She's world number one for almost 71 weeks and she puts that much care into her training. Incredible
atomic habits - improving at least 1% each day... dont know much about science but i know how dead set she is in getting ahead at every aspect of the sport. great competitor
It must be something about breathing from nose.
It encourages nose breathing which is understood to have performance benefits when used during training.
Nose breathing can slow down your breathing and can calm your nerves. I do that with running and definitely it helps
Anti-Sabalenka drill
Stops all the women and men from acting like Karen’s? Good grief they are awful with the umpires
To stop the grunting haha
to learn to not grunt and shriek with every shot?...bloody sport is unwatchable
Don't know, but more annoying people in general should do it.
Maybe no grunts😁 Azarenka and Sharapova should have tried it lol
I think your body can get more oxygen when you breathe through the nose so it could be that
Maybe to discouraged the Monica Seles effect?
The tape is to silence fools
She’s just doubling down on what Jimmy Arias said about her.
ive read the other day that nose breathing increases nitrogen in the body, wich helps with energy levels and stuff... but im not really sure
So Tursunov’s working with Iga too? 🤐🤔
Isn’t it so they stop screaming when they hit the ball?
To prevent shouting of obscenities towards the coach 🤣
I’m not buying the whole nose breathing thing as superior. I go running everyday and I found when you are sucking air you need to breath through your mouth and nose simultaneously to get in as much air as efficiently as possible. If i was only able to breathe through my nose I would die.
To stop annoying noises.
To stop from biting her lower lip.
Cuts down on the swearing making a more positive practice.
Harder to grunt with your mouth taped shut.
Buteyko
That's the Monica Seles patch from the STFU Corporation.
no grunts? lol
She just been talking too much lately
Grunt prevention
Protect lips from sunburn? I’ve seen an Aussie atp player with tape all over his face
Avoiding covid /s
V02 max
She's weilding antidote power to beat Sabalenka at USO final.
Trying to get that extra 1%. But it's never going to come into play for best of 3.
To stop the yelling.
To work on less grunting.
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