Niraj NaikFounder & CEO of SOMA Breath | Music-Powered Breathwork Pioneer | DJ, Speaker & Author

Track your health progress in 2023 with this breathwork test | Niraj Naik | SOMA Breath®️

3 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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Niraj Naik teaches a morning breath-hold test to measure oxygen efficiency. Sit up straight, breathe normally through your nose, then pinch your nose and hold until discomfort. Hold for 40+ seconds means very healthy, 20-40 is average, below 20 means you need to improve fitness.

Questions this video answers

First thing in the morning upon waking.

Sit up straight with your back straight.

A normal inhale and normal exhale through the nose, then pinch/hold the nose and hold the breath.

Stop at the first sign of stress or discomfort and record the elapsed seconds.

20–40 seconds.

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The first thing you can do every single morning is measure your morning breath hold time. This is a measure of your oxygen efficiency and how efficient you are at getting oxygen to where it really needs to go. Your organ cells, your muscle cells, your body tissue cells. This will determine how healthy you are. What you're going to do is when you wake up first thing in the morning, is sit up straight with your back straight. Just straight away. You're going to do a normal inhale, normal exhale through your nose, hold your nose and you're going to hold your breath until the first sign of stress and discomfort. As soon as you get that, you're going to measure that time. And this is what the score corresponds to. So between 20 and 40 seconds is average. 40 seconds and above is where we get into very healthy, super yogic levels. This is where I want our Somis, Soma breath instructors and our followers of our courses to reach below. 20 seconds is where we get into being unhealthy. Between 15 and 20 seconds usually means you need to improve your overall health, your fitness, your stamina.