" International master teacher Eric Franklin shows you how to gain more energy, be more alert, and improve your exercise and sport performance by optimizing something we all take for granted : breathing.

Breathing, Franklin says, is necessary for energy production - and highly functionnal breathing will open up opportunities to attain peak performance. This concise, fully illustrated text will help you do the following :
- Learn to improve your breathing function to benifit your health and improve your sprt performance
- Understand the anatomy of breathing - all the muscles and joints involved and how they work together
- Practice 35 breathing exe4rcises to improve functional breathing technique and performance in dance, yoga, and Pilates
- Study and train the vital muscle of breathing - the diaphragm
- Comprehend the fonction and movement of the rib cage as it pertains to breathing
- Integrate all the elements involved in berathing for optimal breathing function

Franklin has tested the ideas and exercises in his more than 30 years of teaching, and his principales have been used by dancers, yoga practitioners, Pilates intructors, actors, vocal coaches, singing coaches, physiotherapost, swimmers, runners, and many others. His detailed description of the anatomy involved, his presentation of the exercises, and his ability to integrate this information in pratical waysmake this text an important reference for those who are looking to reach their peak performance in sport and in life." 4e de couverture

Contents
1- Diaphragm
2- Rib cage
3- Lungs
4- Muscles of Breathing

Description physique : vii, 63 pages; Illustration; 15cm. x 23 cm.

Langue : Anglais

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