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Old 03-19-2007, 08:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by milkman21
By restricting your breathing to every 3, 4, or even more strokes, you can increase your VO2 max, lung capacity, and breathing efficiency. Perhaps I don't see the point of "breathing faster", because there are a lot of benefits to be had by doing hypoxic work.

For what it's worth, the top sprinters will race a 50 with one or two breaths at most.
Cool info! There are benefits to hypoxic work??? Outside of being able to free dive deeper/longer???

I never knew sprinters took so few breaths! Why?
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