Do you find yourself out of breath regularly? Are you someone who struggles to breathe during daily life or during sports? It’s time to get your breathing ASSESSED.
Tom Williams is an Oxygen Advantage instructor who has spent nearly 10 years helping people improve the way they breathe. Tom has been fortunate enough to work with athletes across the country teaching them about breathing and how it influences the way they move, think and perform.
At The Health Collab, Tom’s Breathing Assessment comprises three parts:
- Part 1: Breathing Technique and Breathing Pattern Assessmentsome text
- The goal is to get a baseline understanding of your breathing habits and behaviours. From there, we will assess your breathing technique and pattern to get a thorough understanding of how you are breathing.
- We will assess your breathing biomechanics (how you move), breathing biochemistry (oxygen uptake) and your breathing cadence (breathing speed) and how these 3 things will influence how you move, feel and perform.
- If you are someone who experiences Exercise Induced Asthma (EIA), will dive deeply into how you breath whilst you are exercising.
- Part 2: Breathing Behaviour and Breathwork Drillssome text
- Once we have a deeper understanding of how you breathe, we will build a framework around improving your breathing behaviour and technique.
- The goal is to allow you a deeper understanding of your own breathing habits and use behaviour science and habit formation to improve the way you breath.
- Part 3: Individualised Breathing Plansome text
- Once we have all the information about how you breathe, we take that information to make a specific breathing plan for YOU.
- Together, we will look at different breathing techniques, breathwork drills and how we can implement these to create long term change. The goal here is to progressively challenge your breathing ability across time to create improvements in how YOU breath.
If you are experience any of the following breathing related issues, it is time to get your breathing assessed:
- Neck pain
- Thoracic (upper back) pain
- Lower back pain
- Exercise Induced Asthma (EIA)
- Nasal congestion
- Sinus headache
