First Italian interview for the breathing expert, who has also been training Olympic champions for ten years
Patrick McKeown he has been training many people with respiratory diseases for more than 15 years, and since 2011 Olympic athletes, military special forces, political and economic leaders who have requested his experience. Releases his first interview in Italy, for Official Active on the breathing techniques that have improved the lives of thousands of people.
Before starting the interview, he asked to check his breathing, to slow it down to 6 breaths per minute, why?
Experiencing your own breathing is worth much more than many speeches. For this reason, in recent years I don’t have much time for myself: I work 10 hours a day passing from one event to another, from one client to another. The sophistication and degeneration of our societies has led men and women to no longer know how to breathe. And with this we don’t sleep well, anxiety grows, and chronic diseases are increasingly linked with breathing.
How to know if our breathing is correct or if we breathe badly?
The first thing a newborn does is open their lungs with a first breath. Then we spend a lifetime getting lazy. Observe the number of people who breathe with their mouths. Observe who is breathing shallowly, with the upper chest. Finally you will have an idea of who does not breathe biochemically and mechanically according to nature. Do you want to know if you are breathing well? Observe. Correct, also called functional, and effective breathing is performed by breathing through the nose and activating the diaphragm, therefore a deep and more effective breathing.
Until 2015, your customers have health problems such as asthma, high blood pressure, then the Oxygen Advantage program is born and what happens?
Today 40% of my clients are professional and non-professional sportsmen, special forces, and many others. There are more than 500 trainers around the world teaching my techniques. Starting with an easy test to evaluate the efficiency of your breathing, explained in English on the official website. If you don’t speak English there are Italian Master trainers between Milan and Liguria who also work online.
And then there are two books, the last one The Breathing Cure, soon translated also into Italian. What is it about?
I have tried to put in the latter, all the existing scientific research on breathing, the studies of the Italian doctor Luciano Bernardi, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pavia who brings more and more science into the science of breathing. I analyzed the new developments of this respiratory science to promote the synergy between yoga and conventional therapies, the road towards which research moves every day to try to make the best of one and the other, in order to improve the quality of life of patients.
What do you recommend to a person who, after reading your book, would like to test their breath?
On the official website there are tests, the BOLT in particular. Simply the BOLT test calculates your resistance to breathlessness O Breathlessness, and it only requires an observation of your body and a stopwatch. The result cannot be influenced by willpower or even by knowledge of the test and therefore objectively indicates the physiological effectiveness of each person’s breathing. Many people have a value of less than 25 seconds, sometimes 10 seconds, but after following the Oxygen Advantage program, even if only for a short time, I have seen out of shape people climbing stairs without breathlessness, running for a bus or playing a game. football, while a sportsman will see his performance and athletic performance increase in a decisive way.
One last tip on how to breathe?
My first book, The Oxygen Advantage, dealt with the mechanical aspects of breathing, the second the biochemical ones, and what I have yet to write the psychological ones. I coined the term LSD to summarize what your next nose breath should look like: Light, Slow or Slow, and Deep or Deep. Breathing mechanically engages the diaphragm, which is why it is profound. Biochemically it stimulates the vagus nerve, which is why it is slow, and finally psychologically it is thin or light, teaching us that less is more than too much when it comes to breathing.
Finally, with what you know about the benefits of mindful breathing, what can we change?
I have lost the best years of my life to breathing problems, I can’t understand why we don’t teach children to breathe. I also don’t understand why there isn’t a trainer in the fitness rooms that makes people notice how their breathing is done excessively with the mouth, shallow, fast, loud and loud. All this must make us reflect and find solutions. Now in Ireland I will start some projects between school and university so that in the education of the individual, since childhood, the path to proper breathing and therefore the path to health is included.
Read also The breath that changes your life.
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