Breathing Program Part 3: 8-Min Lung Capacity for BJJ

Hi guys and welcome back to day three of the breathing program. This class will be different. We will try to inhale as much as we can and then we're going to try to make the exhale as slow as possible. And it's going to be very hard to do this together because we're all different in how far we can push it and the lung capacity, the volume of our lungs.

So I will just talk you through it and then we practice on our own together. So this is what I want you to do. I want you to inhale and then when you reach the top of your inhale, try to push it more. So sip, sip, sip, sip, sip, sip, sip, sip and sip a little bit more.

And then you exhale as slow as possible. So like this. And then before you start over, take a normal breath. So we're not doing like before where we follow the sinus curve up and down.

You can take a couple. Usually do a couple of pants or something before I do the next round. So we're really trying to force our maximum lung capacity a percentage higher. So it's very uncommon that we when we take a deep breath, we maybe stop at 85, 90 percent, but it's very seldom that we actually push it all the way to 100 percent.

So that's what we're doing today. Plus, we're trying to make the exhale controlled because inhales usually happens automatically. All breathing happens automatically when you don't think about it. But inhales are like you can take a deep breath.

But then if you don't control the exhale, you don't have time enough to let the lungs do their job. So controlling your exhale is also very important. So we're both increasing maximum lung capacity and trying to get to 100 percent. And then we're trying to control the exhale and make it as long as possible.

So maybe five, maybe 10, maybe 15 seconds on the exhale. Let's try it.