Heart Rate VariabilityTraining

One of the greatest barriers to someone committing to a healthier, fitter lifestyle is the amount of effort it takes to make change. Typically you have someone that already doesn’t feel great – they are tired, low energy, and struggling to get through their day with coffee and sugar. Then you have a trainer telling this person to do cardio and lift weights, and you have a nutritionist telling them to weigh and measure their food. 
As much as a person may truly WANT to change their ways, they truly may not have the energy to make the change.

What if this person could start to increase their energy levels while seated or even lying down? That would be a game changer. That is what breathing training offers.
It sounds to good to be true, but there is a SIGNFICANT amount of research that concludes:

Improving your breathing can help you

• lose weight,

• improve mental health,

• improve posture, and

• increase performance. 

 

Breathing is your access point to regulate your autonomic nervous system – the system that works “automatically” to regulate your heart rate, blood pressure, stress levels, digestion, hormones, and so much more. When you are stressed, your breath gets shallow, your thoughts get negative, and your sense of well-being drops significantly. Instead of letting the situation impact our breath, we can use our breath to impact the situation. Regulating your breath and your thoughts allows you to positively shift your heart function, hormonal function, and your sense of well being improves. Whichever state you experience more because your body’s “normal” state. By increasing your awareness and control of your breath and shifting each positively, you can positively shift your body’s “normal” state significantly in just a matter of weeks. 

 

As your breathing patterns shift, your stress levels drop, your sleep improves, you then have the energy to dedicate to being more physically active, making intentional food choices, or any other area of your life you see fit.