{"id":713,"date":"2015-08-19T11:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2015-08-19T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:59:19","slug":"lung-capacity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/lung-capacity-training.php","title":{"rendered":"Lung capacity training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/lung-capacity-training.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many years ago when I was about 26 or 27 I went to welding school. It was great fun &#8211; welding school is a place where you can yell and swear and spit while you go about your business. Nobody seems to notice.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my training I learned all about respirators and lung protection. I got a 3M mask and wore it about the house. Whenever anybody lit up a cigarette I would don my mask and sit there looking at them. <\/p>\n<p>I had been doing breathing squat sessions to expand my frame for many years.<\/p>\n<p>A year or two later I took a crack at the Army Infantry reserve and got in. During our basic training they had us yelling as loud as we could while marching and carrying on.<\/p>\n<p>Another little trick I had picked up was hypoxic training. Breathing into a plastic bag to expand my carotid arteries.<\/p>\n<p>All of these things combined will greatly increase lung capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Your aerobic performance will increase as a consequence of hypoxic training &#038; respiratory muscle training.<\/p>\n<p>You need to incorporate the 20 rep breathing squat program, hypoxic training with a plastic bag &#038; respiratory muscle training with an expand-a-lung or similar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Many years ago when I was about 26 or 27 I went to welding school. It was great fun &#8211; welding school is a place where you can yell and swear and spit while you go about your business. Nobody seems to notice. As part of my training I learned all about respirators and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[589,22],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-hypoxic-training","tag-lung-capacity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}