Activeforever PowerLung User Manual

Peak Performance Training
Begins with PowerLung

Inhale. Exhale. Breathing just seems so natural. Why do you need to

train the muscles you use in breathing? After all, aren’t you breathing?

You are doing cardio workouts, running, wind sprints or aerobic activity;

isn’t that the same?

But, if they are so well conditioned, why do you “get out of breath”?

If you are doing aerobic activity, you are aerobically exercising the

muscles used in breathing along with your other muscles. If you have

been working out aerobically training your breathing muscles, when

was the last time you trained them?

You may think you have been training your breathing,

I f y ou r breath in g i s so wel l
conditioned then why do you still
“get out of breath”?

but in reality, you have never trained it at all.

"the respiratory muscles

can be trained for

improvement in strength,

endurance or both."

Pardy et al. (1988)

Just like any other set of muscles "the respiratory muscles can be trained

for improvement in strength, endurance or both." Pardy et al. (1988)1.

This is supported by a number of other studies, notably Dupler &

Amonette2, who found, using the PowerLung, that in a relatively short

period of time, four weeks, respiratory training produced "significant

changes in maximal VE (ventilation), maximal VT (tidal volume), and sub-

maximal VE..." The study revealed a 1.99 breath/minute decrease in RR

(respiration rate) coupled with a 4.93 L/min increase in VE and a

.81L/breath increase in VT for the treatment group. Subjects in the

treatment group also had a 28.25mm/Hg increase in Pex (peak exhalation

force) as compared to only a 2mm/Hg increase for the control group."

These findings are supported conclusively by a number of researchers,

using a wide range of people, proving that these specific muscles have

become stronger.

Peak Performance Training Begins with PowerLung

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The only way to train your breathing.

PowerLung is the original AND only training machine with integrated EXHALE and INHALE progressive

resistance to train and strengthen respiratory muscles. It has two load resistance cells, one for inhale and

one for exhale, that work and adjust completely independently of each other.

PowerLung is the only training machine with various models and series

For anyone who breathes.

specifically designed to meet the needs all types of people, whether they are

athletes, performing artists, or those who just want to breathe easier.

12 sets of breathing muscles to train.

The muscles that provide the power, and therefore the pressure for

training with PowerLung, are located around the lungs. Those used to

inhale are: the diaphragm, external intercostals and the interchondral

part of the internal intercostals, while the accessory muscles are the

sternocleidomastoid and the scalenes. Those required for exhale are

the internal intercostals, except for the interchondral part, the rectus

abdominis and the external and internal obliques.

There are also, for want of a better phrase, “core body muscles” that

are involved in the breathing process. Specifically these are the transverses

abdominis, the muscles of the pelvic floor, the multifidus and the lower

trapezius. These muscles are activated as a result of the deep breathing

required to perform the respiratory muscle training.

PowerLung provides a resistance on both the inhale and exhale part of

the breathing, against which, all the muscles mentioned above have to

work so tha t air ca n be drawn in and expelled from the body.

Artwork courtesy of
James Duffin, University of Toronto.

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