BREATHE TO RELAX
We all breathe to sustain ourselves invariably.
Have you ever tried to breathe with a specific purpose – to remove tension during exercise?
In this uncut instructional lesson, Vladimir shows his students how to:
- Use breath to exhale tension during exercise
- Expand your breath though the entire body
- Fight the muscle strain with breath
- Relax further with every repetition
- Reach profound relaxation of the heart and body after a workout
This program is a perfect alternation of breath-guided strain and recovery.
It will add a new dimension to your workout and fill your body with new healthy lightness.
Watch, train along, enjoy your breath and your power.
Running time: 91 min.
Taizo Akiyama –
This class on breath helped me to realize that I need to actively feel the sensations. I understood that it is very important to try to feel the sensation from myself instead of waiting for it to be given to me. I think the practice of keeping the most painful position, such as push-up, and continuing to breathe is a very necessary practice to understand oneself. In this case, I noticed that the muscles in my arms and legs become sore without proper breathing. It is very painful while the load is being applied, but I feel very fresh afterwards. Thank you for always helping me to know myself.
Retired firefighting captain and Systema practitioner –
It is very strange to me that as kids, we are taught to hold a knife and a fork, to tie our shoes, but not how to breathe. People training in track & field and powerlifters utilize breathing, but it is very limited. In my training as a firefighter, we practiced “skip breathing” (where we had to skip a breath cycle and continue working), but there was really no deeper breath training. Systema is truly unique in the application of breath. I always use it; it has become second nature to me now. No matter what I do, I can keep my resting heart rate under 60 through breathing, and if I exert myself and the heart rate goes up – I can quickly restore. I find it so helpful that the inhales and exhales can be switched, i.e., you do not always have to exhale during the strain. I practice this all the time and feel that the exertion is under control. I can always calm myself down quickly with emphasizing and changing inhales and exhales. This teaching is truly phenomenal.