Showing posts with label powerbreathing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label powerbreathing. Show all posts

Monday, 2 July 2007

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

Monday, 25 June 2007

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