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Article: Air conditioning: how better breathing techniques can help improve your workouts.
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- Muscle & Fitness/Hers
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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take a deep breath. Now, think. What did you just do to initiate and complete this important life-sustaining process? Like many other physiological functions that our bodies perform regularly, normal breathing requires no conscious effort. Even when you work out, you breathe naturally. After all, you're focused on other things--how much time's left in your workout, how fast your heart's beating, or perhaps how tired you feel.
Yet basic breathing techniques might not lead you down the most effective path to a lean, toned body. With a little work, however, you can learn to breathe better as you exercise, allowing you to access greater supplies of energy, and train ...