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Functional vs Structural changes through training
This blog is about making athletes think about their training, why do certain things and what happens when we try to adapt training programmes to our physiology instead of following the normal cookie cutter approach of just doing.
Diaphragm and respiratory training (SpiroTiger).
This is the SpiroTiger (ST) article that I published over a year ago and has been rewritten with a year and a half worth of experience and improvements. Keep in mind that every person is a individual and he or her has their own weaknesses, so there may be different reaction to what I have found.BackgroundMost athletes do not even think of training their lungs, they think that they can not train their lungs, that their lungs could not possibly limit their performance. And that their body is limit
SpiroTiger
SpiroTiger: Spiro what? sounds like a fuzzy little animal that lives in the woods! Rather it is currently the only training device that can train your lungs effectively. Sure there are other low cost devices such as Powerbreathe and PowerLung out there, but they will only allow one to train the respiratory muscles for about 30 seconds before one goes blue in the face and keels over panting.The PowerLung is more like gym training for the lung where as the SpiroTiger was designed to train the e