What is the correct way to breathe during intense physical workouts?

So if you're exercising and doing physical workouts, or if your clients are doing that and you want to know what's the right way to breathe, it's all about rhythm, rhythmic breathing. Okay? Now, if you breathe in a rhythm whilst you're doing the weights, so you're breathing in.

That's one way of doing the exercise. So it's not erratic and the breathing is controlled. This will help you have a good blood flow from your heart to your brain throughout the exercise. However, you can take things to the next level and really have a more impact with your workout by actually slowing the breath down or even using breath holds and using static contraction exercises. So yoga done in the Soma style, where you're holding each pose till exhaustion point with breath holds, is one of the most powerful ways to actually increase the health of your body and the cells in your body. Okay. And if you're doing functional isometric training, which we also teach in cytoma, where you're pushing against immovable objects with maximum effort and force, again, you can hold your breath on the inhale or the exhale during the pose to really maximize the effects. Another example is you could do push ups whilst holding your breath on the exhale. And this is a very, very powerful way to exercise the cardiovascular system, because what you're doing is you're stimulating that intermittent hypoxia during the exercise and that creates that positive stress response and that leads to growth and better proliferation of your muscles with nutrients and myoglobing and energy so that you become more efficient, have better stamina in the future workouts or in your day to day life.