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    The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You
    The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You
    The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You
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    The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You

    Written by Patrick McKeown

    Narrated by Alan Smyth

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A simple yet revolutionary approach to improving your body’s oxygen use, increasing your health, weight loss, and sports performance—whether you’re a recovering couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola.

    Achieve more with less effort: The secret to weight loss, fitness, and wellness lies in the most basic and most overlooked function of your body—how you breathe. One of the biggest obstacles to better health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic over-breathing. We often take many more breaths than we need—without realizing it—contributing to poor health and fitness, including a host of disorders, from anxiety and asthma to insomnia and heart problems.

    In The Oxygen Advantage, the man who has trained over 5,000 people—including Olympic and professional athletes—in reduced breathing exercises now shares his scientifically validated techniques to help you breathe more efficiently. Patrick McKeown teaches you the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body, then gets you started with a Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to determine how efficiently your body uses oxygen. He then shows you how to increase your BOLT score by using light breathing exercises and learning how to simulate high altitude training, a technique used by Navy SEALs and professional athletes to help increase endurance, weight loss, and vital red blood cells to dramatically improve cardio-fitness.

    Following his program, even the most out-of-shape person (including those with chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma) can climb stairs, run for a bus, or play soccer without gasping for air, and everyone can achieve:

    • Easy weight loss and weight maintenance
    • Improved sleep and energy
    • Increased concentration
    • Reduced breathlessness during exercise
    • Heightened athletic performance
    • Improved cardiovascular health
    • Elimination of asthmatic symptoms, and more.

    With The Oxygen Advantage, you can look better, feel better, and do more—it’s as easy as breathing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9780062466464
    The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You
    Author

    Patrick McKeown

    Patrick McKeown has helped thousands of people to substantially improve their sports performance and overall health by incorporating simple, medically proven principles and exercises into their lives. In 1997, after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin, McKeown applied the work of Dr. Konstantin Buteyko to address his lifelong asthma, soaring stress levels, and sleep-disordered breathing. The Oxygen Advantage is an extension of this work, combining simulation of high-altitude training and specifically formulated exercises not only for significantly improving anyone's health, but also to empower athletes to improve their sports performance safely, legally, and at no cost. In addition to running workshops throughout his native Ireland, each year he gives workshops in North America, Europe, and Australia on maximizing one's life’s potential through breath.

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    • 3/5
      Really great book! Though this audiobook version stops working every few mins for 10-15 seconds at a time.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantastic book! After going through the exercises I can easily work out at a high intensity while easily breathing through my nose. I also feel more energy and mental clarity.
    • 4/5
      Good book great concept love it but has to see how practical it is
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best books size read in many years. When I started doing good when hawk technique I thought that I had reached the pinnacle of breathing technology but in this specific book he goes far beyond the whim Hoff technique and delivers
    • 5/5
      Very interesting and thought provoking book! I highly recommend it to anyone. Learning to breath less looks like a fantastic tool to add to your list to maximise your health
    • 5/5
      So insightful. Have only been using the technique for a week and it’s helped my running. I feel like I’m running effortlessly for longer. What was surprising is I thought I was running at same pace 6.5 mph, typically but my app said 7.5/8.1/9 mph... I’ve only used it a couple of times breath holds walking & running but was surprised to see speed changes so quickly & effortlessly
    • 5/5
      Such an important book. Most of us have wrong breathing habits. Must read!
    • 4/5
      I found it useful. However, the content is repetitive.