Breathing Warm Up
Performing breathing drills as a pre-warm-up helps to improve movement quality. Every one of our training sessions begin with at least one breathing drill.
We’ve seen time and again how simply teaching our clients to breathe immediately improves their movement quality— especially the range of motion in the hips and shoulders.
Dysfunctional breathing can involve a range of behaviours and symptoms, including:
❌ Hyperventilation and low CO2
❌ Mouth breathing
❌ Upper chest breathing
❌ Inability to take a deep and satisfying breath
❌ Unexplained breathing discomfort
❌ Various combinations of this list
We coach breathing drills to help improve these factors. When awareness is brought to the breath during exercise, we find clients have a much easier time stabilizing their spines, which subsequently improves posture and movement quality.
Breathing can be taught in any position from half kneeling to standing, but our favourite go-to drills are:
We cannot underestimate the potential global improvements in health that result from improving our respiration patterns.
Alterations in breathing can be associated with chronic pain, anxiety disorders, allergies and movement dysfunction.
We coach breathing during every single of one our training sessions. It’s just too important to be ignored. It also is the one thing that if you improved, would have the biggest impact on every aspect of your health.
It’s really cool to see how someone’s posture can change in a matter of minutes when they start to utilize functional breathing mechanics. They will literally carry themselves differently when they learn to breathe through their nose and access their diaphragm.
Always remember, motion is lotion. We encourage you to Move Well, Live Well™.
If you need help with movement or exercise, we’ve got you covered. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’d be happy to help.