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**Howlin Mad Missy** · 04-03-2009 09:24 AM

Cheers Sharla. I always figured the Powerbreathe was for expanding lung capacity rather than working the diaphragm but as it's a 'forced' method of breathing it must also work the diaphragm. I do quite a bit yoga/kundalini breath work and that is hard. I read about some research in to the fitness levels of people doing yoga exclusively. Lung capacity was one area they did very well in.

I can recommend some exercises if you like - probably on another thread since I feel we've hijacked this one and Scrap is staying silent & not giving us any more info to go on

**Sharla** · 04-03-2009 11:10 PM

To be honest I'm still a complete beginner at yoga ad pilates and I've never heard of kundalini breath work but you have me very curious!

I don't actually know the name of the form my instructor teaches and apart from that the only one I've heard of is a bikram yoga place near me. I haven't tried that yet though since it seems a bit pricey.

Will keep my eye out for the thread whenever you have time to post it.

**Scrap** · 04-04-2009 11:04 AM

Found a way of improving the way the Diaphram works, just want to try something opposite

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**Chris Nagel** · 04-05-2009 05:32 PM

Well you know enough about what good posture can do, on the other hand you could show them bad posture which ought have a reversed effect on their diaphragm.

As for an apparatus, you could come up something that lays a heavy weight on their chest, or perhaps you'd rather sit down on their chest. Other than that maybe a wide weight-lifting belt would do the trick if it comes up high enough.

**Scrap** · 04-05-2009 05:54 PM

Chris its something that got overlooked in some testing Ive done. Which as usual it was staring me in the Face, looking at the Bigger Picture and not at the simple clues.