Latest Aerosure TV Commercial

Latest Aerosure TV commercial for the UK. Nice job.

Aerosure Television Commercial September 2014 from Kieran Gavin on Vimeo.

youbreathe/aerosure for colds and flu

This is a short post to continue my discussion from last time. I was talking about trials getting underway to test the efficacy of youbreathe/aerosure in clearing mucus in clinical patient populations. Well various feedback from users has indicated that once the initial fever during a cold or flu is over, that youbreathe/aerosure can be very helpful in clearing chest congestion.

Try to get a little olbas inhaler or some eucalyptus oil and hold it in front of youbreathe/aerosure as you inhale and you will feel the effects of youbreathe/aerosure pulsing the vapor right down through your full respiratory system. This has the effect of moistening the mucus membranes and reducing respiratory tract inflammation.

I hope youbreathe/aerosure can be useful in so many conditions as breathing is so fundamental to everything we do.

This is a link to the BBC website for cold and flu:

BBC colds and flu

Here is a link to the BUPA cold and flu website:

http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/colds.html

The following are a couple of links for relief from colds and flu:

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/9-tips-to-treat-colds-and-flu-the-natural-way

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/ohe/library/cold/relief.htm

Please keep an eye on the download page of the youbreathe website for new user manuals : http://www.youbreathe.com/products.php

Stay healthy

Vibration training support

Hi,

This week I have been continuing my work into the effects of youbreathe on respiratory strength and power, the results are looking ever more exciting with gains of about 15% after just 10 breaths of youbreathe use vs no increase with 10 breaths of resistance. We will be continuing these studies and I will update you when they are finished.

Also we are continuing our research into how youbreathe can be applied to respiratory therapy in conditions such as cystic fibrosis or any condition where excess mucus is a problem. Because youbreathe provides pulses to the respiratory system we believe that it can be used to release excess mucus that would normally require chest physiotherapy. When we start getting the full results through I will keep you updated.

Another thing more generally I would like to talk about is to talk about personal trainers. Lots of personal trainers are now jumping on the vibration training bandwagon before we have a full understanding of the effects of vibration training on performance. But I recommend if you want to include vibration training in your training programme, you sould find someone who knows their stuff. There are still no independent qualifications for personal trainers to take, so I would advise contacting a University who research vibration training such as the Human Performance Centre at London South Bank University or a personal training company like Home Health Fitness (http://www.homehealthfitness.com) who are all University graduates and are applying vibration training in a controlled manner supported by University Research.

Human Growth Hormone continued

Hi,

I am going to continue to talk a little more about human growth hormone responses, but this week I want to talk a little more about breathing. When we designed youbreathe we did so with neuromuscular and hormonal responses in mind. We knew that growth hormone responded very strongly to vibration with exercise, and we knew there were effects of breathing on growth hormone responses. We always had in mind to see if youbreathe would cause growth hormone responses as the theory predicted.

We have some prelim results and it certainly looks promising. We have a couple of elite sprinters and some strength and conditioning coaches trying programmes out with youbreathe use for strength, sprint and power training. All feedback so far has been very positive.

We have several programmes developed so far but we need to continue the research to see which gives the best responses. In the next couple of weeks I will provide here a beta version for you to try in your own training regime. It makes training harder but the potential benefits will be well worth it.

We hope to be able to apply this to many clinical situations were atrophy is a problem and also maybe to obesity.

See you next time

Human Growth Hormone

Hi,

I am going to get back onto my normal thread this week by talking more generally about vibration training. I would like to talk about hormonal responses to vibration training, specifically human growth hormone. Generally there are very conflicting responses to vibration training largely because of the variation in the methods used and protocols followed. But in growth hormone responses the situation seems a lot more clear. Vibration definitely affects growth hormone responses! There still does seem to be some variability in these responses depending upon the muscle chosen to be vibrated, some muscles such as the soleus (which is a more slow type muscle) can cause a depression in growth hormone release.

One point which does seem to clarify this whole situation is that vibration combined with strength training stimulates human growth hormone release more than either vibration or strength training alone. For a long time now I have never thought of vibration training as a replacement for conventional training, but as an adjunct to other forms of training. This info about human growth hormone release seems to support that view, which is bad news for the lazy amongst us.

Also in the treatment of many clinical conditions treatment of artificial growth hormone is prescribed, with signficant side effects, but encouraging the body to produce it's own growth hormone seems a much more sensible and safe idea.

These are the reasons we developed out vibration training solutions such as youbreathe and vibrex which superimpose the vibrations on to traditional exercise. And the results we get are excellent.

OK, I promised you a download for training yourself to perform abdominal breathing, and it is done and tested now.

Please click this link for the training manual.

http://www.youbreathe.com/general/pdf/abdominal%20breathing%20user%20manual.pdf

Thanks

What is youbreathe?

Hi,



Some feedback I have had about this blog from friends is people reading this might not know what youbreathe is. So this week I will explain a little more about youbreathe but without trying to make this into a sales pitch.



youbreathe is a hand-held device that applies the principles of vibration to the breathing muscles. There are currently several respiratory muscle training products on the market but non of them utilise vibration. So youbreathe allows people to train their breathing muscles without any discomfort or great effort. We have submitted some results recently showing that using this device for a little as 10 breaths can increase breathing performance by up to 15%. Obviously when you train long term the benefits are much greater than this. So breathing in and out of youbreathe for around 5 mins a day, 5 days a week can have amazing effects on performance.



Another colleague who is a national strength and conditioning association coach has been using youbreathe and found that when he goes for a run he gets into the zone so quickly since using youbreathe. Again this is great for me to hear that something I invented can actually help someone. For more info please see www.youbreathe.com.



OK, I hope this clears up what youbreathe is.



I am going to start working on some youbreathe exercises that are combined with eastern philosophy and some visualisation exercises, as training the body and mind is far superior to training just the body.



Ok have a great week, see you next post.



Bye

Work less, Benefit more.

Recently a “new” training modality is hitting the headlines. Due to its use by celebrities such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue, vibration training is becoming all the rage with outrageous claims being made for the benefits including “45 minutes worth of exercise in 15 minutes…!” Clearly strap lines like this make for great headlines to sell magazines, newspapers and vibration devices, but is it true?

Researchers at London South Bank University have published a paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal demonstrating that during and subsequent to a single bout of leg extension exercise with vibration at 35% of 1-repetition maximum (1-RM), subjects responded in a similar manner to the responses observed subsequent to the subject performing a single bout of leg extension at 70% 1-RM without vibration. The longer-term training studies are not finished yet but this result suggests that lowering the exercise intensity (weight lifted) and adding a vibration stimulus could lead to similar benefits as high intensity resistance training. It is still very early days for vibration research and application but the important principle appears to be reducing the stimulus quantity and increasing the stimulus quality. For these reasons it’s been always recommend that someone interested in using vibration for training, especially at the elite level, consults qualified strength and conditioning practitioners as part of a training programme, such as the Human Performance Centre at London South Bank University.

The most common method of vibration training is that of vibrating platforms that the user performs exercises on. These devices have been used often in research but the results produced, although offering potential, are not consistent. Some users find that these devices can cause nausea, and if used incorrectly can cause the vibration to be sent straight up the spine to the base of the scull (as this user found out to his cost!). For these reasons we prefer the idea of targeted vibration directly to the exercising muscle ensuring a more specific training stimulus and eliminating any of the unpleasant side effects.

I have recently released a targeted vibration device for the respiratory system called youbreathe which causes the airflow into and out of the lungs to be pulsatile stimulating the stretch reflex of the respiratory muscles. Preliminary results look very exciting with similar acute responses to those seen in the leg training above. youbreathe is currently being used by elite cyclist, tri-athletes, footballers and rugby players who all report perceptible benefits for their sports performance. More trials are under way with future plans to conduct clinical trials with the aim of reducing symptoms of cardio-respiratory disease such as coronary heart disease, asthma and COPD.

In conclusion, vibration training certainly seems to offer the possibility of increasing the return on your exercise investment, getting more response for a given effort. However it would be too soon to draw conclusions about which is the best vibration training method (targeted vs platform) or which protocol is best for a particular desired effect (endurance vs power). I’d like to recommend taking advice from qualified practitioners and incorporating vibration training in a complete training programme. Certainly vibration training seems to offer great potential for rehabilitation in clinical populations and for training the elderly.