Wednesday, 29 January 2014

My Daily Breathing Workout Explained

The Breathing Workout!

So, the table looks like this...

                                         Mon   Tues   Wed   Thurs   Fri   Sat   Sun

Abdominal Release #1                             25
Abdominal Release #2                             4
Breath Capacity #1                                  57
Breath Capacity #2                                  20
Breath Release #1                                    8
Breath Release #2                                    5E
Sustain #1                                                44
Sustain #2                                                17
Sustain #3                                                17


So this is what today's table looks like for me! I haven't done my breathing workout for a while so this is a good way for me to keep track of my progress!

So I'm going to go down the list again explaining what to do for each one...

Abdominal Release #1       - Sustain a "sss" and mark down the sustain time.                    
Abdominal Release #2       - Exhale all of your air, exhale all of your air again and again as much as possible and write down the amount of times you do it.                     
Breath Capacity #1            - Take a deep belly breath and hold for as long as you can. Write down the sustain time.              
Breath Capacity #2            - Exhale and then hold onto an empty set of lungs. Write down the sustain time.                        
Breath Release #1              - Count to ten as many times as possible in 1 breath. Write down the amount of times.                     
Breath Release #2              - Say your ABC's as many times as you can in a row in 1 breath. Write down the amount of times and the letter last time through.                    
Sustain #1                           - Count as high as you can while vocalizing the numbers on a sustained pitch. Write down how high and the pitch.                   
Sustain #2                           - Hum "mmmmm" as long as you can in 1 breath. Write down the sustain time.         
Sustain #3                           - Sustain the "A" vowel for as long as possible on one breath. Write down the pitch and sustain time.          


So there you go, that's my Daily Breathing Workout which I vow to stick to from now on! It's extremely useful - breath support is something that a lot of beginners take for granted but these exercises really do help. :)

Hope you found this interesting and thanks for reading!

Barry x

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