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Winning Happens While You Breathe: How the Isocapnic Changes the Game in MMA, Boxing, and the UFC
Combat sports reward preparation, but they reveal truth. You might enter the cage sharper, stronger, faster, and smarter — but when your body slips into redline, skill becomes inaccessible and strategy fades into instinct. The fight becomes a negotiation between
Cold Plunge Breathing: How to Use the Isocapnic to Recover Faster, and Build Resilience
Cold plunge breathing isn’t just about surviving the shock of icy water — it’s about mastering your body’s most powerful lever for control: your breath. When combined with the Isocapnic Breathe Way Better (BWB) system, cold plunging becomes more than
Respiratory Muscle Trainer: The Complete Guide (And Why Isocapnic Leads the Future of Breathing Performance)
Breathing is the most underrated performance system in the human body. You can have powerful legs, a strong heart, and elite conditioning — but if your respiratory system can’t keep up, everything else suffers. Athletes feel this as the familiar
Conversation with the Roadman Cycling Podcast
Dr. Andrew Sellars sat down for a conversation with Anthony from the Roadman Cycling Podcast to discuss his experience with integrating respiratory training into endurance training protocols. Check out the full podcast in audio form HERE OR Check out the
Improve FTP, VO₂ and Power : Lessons from Elite Cyclists Using Isocapnic Training
Elite professional cyclists already train at the edge of human capacity. Their lungs are huge, their hearts powerful, and their muscles efficient. Pushing their performance even a few percent higher is notoriously difficult. Yet a new study shows that adding
How Effective Is Breath Training?
Most people never think about training their breathing. It feels automatic — air goes in, air goes out, job done. But for athletes and anyone chasing better fitness or health, the respiratory system can be a hidden limiter. So, how
How to Strengthen Your Lungs and Breathing Muscles
The Smarter Way Forward Most people think of “lung training” as running harder, swimming longer, or holding their breath underwater. While those things certainly challenge your breathing, they don’t systematically strengthen the muscles that actually drive your breath—the diaphragm and
Isocapnic Validation Study
A new study has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Biology by Tomasz Kowalski of Warsaw, Poland. Keen observers may remember some of his earlier work with speed skaters and triathletes, which confirmed the physiologic benefits of respiratory muscle
Rethinking Respiratory Limits in Exercise
Review of: Barstow TJ, Murphy K, et al., “Respiratory Limitations during Exercise,” Current Opinion in Physiology, Volume 10, August 2019, pp. 173–179. For decades, we’ve assumed that in healthy individuals, the lungs and respiratory system are “overbuilt”—more than capable of handling the
Sara Sigmundsdóttir Spotted Training With the Isocapnic BWB
When it comes to elite CrossFit athletes, few names have commanded as much respect and admiration as Sara Sigmundsdóttir. Known for her fierce determination, powerful engine, and comeback resilience, Sara has been a podium threat at the CrossFit Games and
Athletes, Breathe Stronger, Perform Longer: How To Increase Lung Capacity with Isocapnic
Every athlete knows the feeling of burning lungs when pushing to the limit. That breathless sensation isn’t just discomfort – it’s a performance ceiling. Lung capacity can be the secret ingredient that separates a personal best from an average performance.
Unmasking Air Hunger: How Olivia Ferguson’s Research is Changing the Game in Endurance Performance
When we think about the factors limiting human endurance, our minds often turn to the heart’s ability to pump oxygen-rich blood or the muscles’ capacity to utilize that oxygen. But what if the lungs played a bigger role than we
Increase Muscle O₂ with Isocapnic Respiratory Muscle Training
Increase Muscle O₂ with Isocapnic Respiratory Muscle Training : An Independent analysis by high performance coach at SPACS Sport Physiology. As a sports physiologist and competitive age-group triathlete, I’ve always been fascinated by human performance. But after recovering from COVID-19,
Breaking New Ground: Cyril Ricci’s Study Validates the Power of Isocapnic Training
Cyril Ricci’s latest research, Developments and Adaptations of the Ventilatory System after 11 Months of Specific Training, is a game-changer in the world of performance training. This study delivers compelling evidence that structured ventilatory training, centered around isocapnic methods, produces
Finding the Ideal Training Load : Isocapnic Respiratory Training
As athletes, we’re always looking for ways to push our performance to new levels. The Isocapnic BWB is one of the most effective tools for respiratory muscle training, an often overlooked but critical component of athletic success. This article will
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