How to do abdominal breathing

Breathing is a very important function of the human body. If breathing cannot proceed normally, life will be greatly affected. Therefore, you must ensure normal breathing at ordinary times to ensure the health of your body. If you cannot maintain normal and healthy breathing, your body will definitely become ill. So how do you do abdominal breathing? Today we will give you a detailed introduction on how to perform abdominal breathing.

Breathing is divided into two types: "chest breathing" and "abdominal breathing". Most people are accustomed to chest breathing, which is a breathing method that uses the mouth, nose and lungs. When air is inhaled, the chest cavity will expand, and the interval between inhalation and exhalation is relatively short. Abdominal breathing is a breathing method that uses the diaphragm, abdominal cavity and intercostal muscles. As air is inhaled, the abdomen will slowly expand. It is a deeper breathing method.

In addition to using abdominal breathing during muscle strength training, it is recommended that you practice it consistently in your daily life. It can regulate our autonomic nervous system and achieve the effect of relaxation and stress relief.

Benefits of abdominal breathing

If you don’t want to be out of breath during exercise and at the same time have a better physical performance, easy, stable and efficient breathing is very necessary! This is also the main reason why we recommend everyone to use abdominal breathing.

In addition, abdominal breathing has the following advantages:

Internal organs can be massaged

Abdominal breathing can exercise the abdominal muscles, while the diaphragm in the body will move up and down due to correct breathing, massaging the internal organs at a regular rate. This means that all the internal organs are involved in the exercise, which also helps gastrointestinal motility.

Helps inhale more oxygen

During exercise, the breathing efficiency will be better, you can get more oxygen, and the metabolized carbon dioxide will be completely exhaled, so you will not feel tired easily and will be in better spirits!

The question of how to perform abdominal breathing has been clearly introduced above. In normal times, you can perform abdominal breathing according to the methods introduced above. A good exercise method can give the body a good maintenance effect. In this way, the body can always be in a relatively healthy state, with few or no symptoms of disease, and reduced physical pain.