{"id":10255,"date":"2016-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/started-hypopressives-improve-breathing-posture-bike\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:58:02","slug":"started-hypopressives-improve-breathing-posture-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/started-hypopressives-improve-breathing-posture-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I STARTED HYPOPRESSIVES TO IMPROVE MY BREATHING AND POSTURE ON THE BIKE&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started <strong>regular sessions of hypopressive exercises with the aim of enhancing my cycling performance<\/strong>; specifically in order <strong>to improve my breathing techniques and posture on the bike<\/strong>. The benefits were two-fold, relating to improvement in cycling performance and faster recovery after physical effort. The immediate benefits I noticed on the bike after the first few sessions were striking. Firstly, deeper, <strong>more controlled respiration while cycling, allowing greater ease of cardiac endurance over a challenging route, such as a long mountain climb.<\/strong> Secondly, a more relaxed dorsal posture on the bike, encouraging greater extension of the back and shoulders, counteracting the common cyclist tendency to hunch the shoulders over the handlebar. Following a hard cycle training ride, <strong>I found that doing a short session of hypopressive exercise accelerated recovery.<\/strong> I noticed a significant reduction in tiredness after a shorter time and my cardiac frequency dropped to its rest level more quickly. My back, shoulder and stomach muscles also appeared to relax faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, I would definitely <strong>recommend this type of exercise to any cyclis<\/strong>t wishing to complement their training, by improving breathing and posture, as well as by speeding up effort recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tom Watkinson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English teacher<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started regular sessions of hypopressive exercises with the aim of enhancing my cycling performance; specifically in order to improve my breathing techniques and posture on the bike. The benefits were two-fold, relating to improvement in cycling performance and faster recovery after physical effort. The immediate benefits I noticed on the bike after the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/started-hypopressives-improve-breathing-posture-bike\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3249,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":["1","16","249","271","299","585","586","587"],"tags":[560,555,599,601,594,595,596,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3249\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowpressurefitness.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}