In this instructional video, Bill from beyondfitnessonline.com introduces the "Air Hunger" breathing drill, a breath‑hold exercise designed to counteract chronic overbreathing. He explains that overbreathing impairs cellular respiration, disrupts blood acid‑base balance, and may contribute to conditions such as osteoporosis and vestibular problems. By learning to breathe into the belly rather than the chest and performing the drill during exercises, practitioners can improve cardiovascular endurance, allowing them to run, bike, or walk farther and faster. Bill demonstrates the drill with two examples—squats and push‑ups—showing how to exhale fully, hold the breath, and continue repetitions until the need to breathe arises, then recover with controlled belly breathing. He cautions that dizziness, light‑headedness, or panic may occur, advising a gradual start or temporary avoidance. The video concludes with a subscription prompt and a reminder to post new updates every Friday.
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Hi, I'm Bill from beyondfitnessonline.com, and today I'm going to show you a breathing drill called Air Hunger. Now, what is Air Hunger? Basically what happens is we tend to overbreathe in our day-to-day life, and what that does is that creates all kinds of other issues. Your cellular respiration isn't as good, which means that basically you're not getting the oxygen to the different parts of your body as efficiently as you could. This can lead to things like your acid-base balance in your blood being off. This can be things like osteoporosis starting to form. This can be things like vertigo or other vestibular issues. So we want to be able to correct all that stuff. Now, on a performance side, it's also important because the better you are at this drill, the better your cardiovascular endurance will be. And if that's the case, then you'll end up finding that you can walk or run or bike further or faster or longer than you're normally used to. So there's a lot of benefits to this. So we want to make sure that first we're able to learn how to breathe into our belly and not into our chest because that's important. If you're constantly breathing into your chest, this is a sign that you're starting to get over-oxygenated. If you need more information on that, you can check out this video right up here and that'll give you more information on that. But without further ado, let's go ahead and show you how to do an air hunger drill. You can do it with any exercise that you want, anything from a weightlifting exercise, bodyweight exercise, cardiovascular exercise. It's just a matter of learning how to hold your breath in a certain way while you do the exercise to increase the CO2 levels in your body. Now, if this makes you dizzy or lightheaded or panicky, then start slow or avoid it altogether for now. But those are things that don't happen that often. So if that does happen to you, just back off a little and then come back to it at a later time. But I think that most of you who are watching this are going to find that this gives you more benefits than anything else. So I'm going to show you this right now. It's going to be with 2 different exercises. I'm going to do it with a squat and I'm going to do it with a push-up just as examples. But again, you can do it with any other exercise that you want to do. So watch it here, check it out.
So the way that this works is simple. You're going to choose your exercise. In this case, we've chosen squats. You're going to exhale all of your air out as far as you can and then hold your breath. At that point, you're going to do as many squats as you can, and then you're going to stop when you feel like you need to breathe again. After you stop, you want to take some time to make sure that you're catching your breath and under control. In this next example, you'll see me do the same thing with push-ups. So I started off with exhaling all my air out. And as soon as I get there, I hold my breath, I jump into my push-up position, and I just go. Once I get to a point where I feel like I need to stop and breathe, I actually stop the exercise and focus on trying to breathe into my belly. I do this as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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