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[enrage]

Bas Rutten has developed a breathing device which is similar to what Bazzy is describing.

This is called the o2 trainer and it was designed to strengthen the lung and breathing muscles for athletes.



probably a good device but i haven't used it. Most of the top MMA guys are starting to use stuff like this to increase their cardio capacity.

http://o2trainer.com

I've even seen people use gas masks for their mma training.

http://fightercorner.com/gas-mask-training-for-mma

video of gas mask training. look for the guy on the erg

[Kristine Strasburger]

I always kind of liked wearing my gas mask in a weird sort of way. Made me feel a little like Darth Vader.

[Kona2]

Baz's posting, and the subsequent ones on breathing device and gas mask usage, have surely sent me down a bunny trail of the mind. As one who has asthma, I wondered about how the breathing devices would impact the outflow of the air....since that is what can be a struggle anyway.

[enrage]

Baz's posting, and the subsequent ones on breathing device and gas mask usage, have surely sent me down a bunny trail of the mind. As one who has asthma, I wondered about how the breathing devices would impact the outflow of the air....since that is what can be a struggle anyway.

I listened to a podcast with Bas Rutten the creater of the o2 trainer and he used a similar technique that would restrict his breathing in order to strengthen his lungs when he was younger in order to help his asthma.
He says now that he has no asthma. According to the reading that i've done on similar products almost all of them say that those devices open up alternate breathing pathways in the lungs which will help one overcome asthma.
again, those are just product and developer claims. i don't really know anyone who used it and says that their asthma was cured.

I'd love to use the 02 trainer. it comes with different restricter plates in order to work your way up the cardio ladder. i think something like that could help someone improve their cardio.

[BAZzy]

Baz's posting, and the subsequent ones on breathing device and gas mask usage, have surely sent me down a bunny trail of the mind. As one who has asthma, I wondered about how the breathing devices would impact the outflow of the air....since that is what can be a struggle anyway.

I'm glad the topic was of interest, as I like the ‘science’ of exercise and I think it is good to measure where you are at, where you want to go, and track the progress (I've been corporatised over a long period - tragic )

K2 raises the question of asthma and how it might impact rowers. I understand that these types of devices were designed with the intention of aiding asthma sufferers. And to quote from the ‘Power Breathe’ article on the Concept website written by Eddie Fletcher, of Fletcher Sports Science.

Cheers, BBB

This guide is written for those training to improve their 2000 m race or time trial performance.
It is specifically aimed at age group rowers who are in physiological decline and want to
maximise or improve their performance by strengthening their breathing muscles using the
POWERbreathe (http://www.powerbreathe.com) inspiratory muscle trainer. The benefits of
POWERbreathe apply equally to elite athletes as they do to recreational indoor rowers.


My own interest stems from my breathing (asthmatic) problems which constant use of the
POWERbreathe has greatly ameliorated. It occurred to me that if it could have such a dramatic effect on my meagre performance then the potential for athletic performance was huge.


People with asthma have narrow lung airways, which increases the resistance to breathing,
and increases the work demanded of the inspiratory muscles during exercise: the logic of
training these muscles seemed obvious to me as a coach. It also seemed logical to me that
rowers struggling to breathe, particularly where maximal effort is involved would benefit from
having stronger breathing muscles. If you happen to be an asthmatic rower you will see a
significant improvement in your breathing effort very quickly.


When I checked the scientific and medical literature for information about inspiratory muscle
training (IMT) I was delighted to see that not only was there good evidence that IMT improved
asthma symptoms1 but also that it improved performance in highly trained young oarswomen2 and cyclists3. This strengthened my conviction that IMT was something that all my rowers should incorporate into their training.

[Kristine Strasburger]

Very interesting stuff, Baz. Thanks for posting this.

[Kona2]

So far, the only tee shirt designed was the one that is pictured on page 1 of the team pages! Our resident artist is an independent minded fellow...but perhaps he might help us out with a lunar landing tee shirt. Perhaps.

[Kona2]

1 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 25,526,631 302 84,525
2 Free Spirits Virtual Club 12,546,686 147 85,352
3 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 8,998,704 204 44,111
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 8,215,550 104 78,996
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 7,529,013 89 84,596
6 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 7,249,946 31 233,869

Collectively, we're hanging in there at fourth position out of 222 teams (what a great accomplishment - way to row, Lunies!) The Top 10 Percent mark today is 142,725 m.....anyone above this number is in that group! And, perhaps this stat does matter....we've gone from 15 teammates in the group to 20! Unabashedly, I admit to wanting to be in it ! Woot!

1 Ron MacBruce M 56 438,216 ...closing in on a cool half million....
2 Barry O'Malley M 51 300,000
3 Will Salach M 54 290,000
4 Rosita Delacruz F 36 278,198
5 Jim (Jay) Kielma Jr. M 38 277,856
6 Chris Tudury F 61 275,887
7 Cathie Johnson F 29 253,472
8 Daniel Cox M 66 229,271
9 Ross Drown M 63 224,223
10 Dan Seldomridge M 49 190,989
11 Ronnie Mills F 43 188,970
12 Pat Bankes F 64 186,344
13 Samuel Johnson M 75 165,901
14 Jim Kielma M 57 163,471
15 David A. Alden M 50 161,766
16 James Garcia M 35 153,607
17 Jan Stevenson F 58 152,791
18 Dan McInerney M 46 152,602
19 Kristine Strasburger F 47 150,000
20 Mike Gilger M 50 150,000
21 Tammy Gwinn F 31 142,536
22 Collin Dykstra M 36 140,000
23 George Wyner M 53 130,000
24 Peter Huurman M 38 130,000
25 Harold Janusek M 60 128,717
26 Jennifer Browning F 46 128,133
27 Steven Larky M 48 112,680
28 Mitch Johnson M 55 110,845
29 Charles Dykstra M 43 110,000
30 Steven Drews M 41 110,000
31 Greg Childs M 56 107,430
32 Bobbie Kielma F 58 105,557
33 Benny Delacruz M 18 102,377
34 peter verdirame M 56 96,000
35 Nathan Johnson M 38 95,000
36 David Tangerini M 63 93,000
37 Karyn Gallagher F 41 90,570
38 Gloria Miller F 51 83,325
39 Kevin Clark M 45 82,516
40 A J Tudury M 63 82,341
41 Ted Cowley-Gilbert M 50 79,000
42 Andrea Cosmin F 53 78,018
43 Dwight Hakim M 49 72,260
44 Richard Miller M 61 72,215
45 Rodrigo Garcia M 34 69,373
46 AUCHER Romain M 32 68,475
47 Jeffrey Grous M 48 61,795
48 Laura Thorson F 50 60,188
49 martha wiles F 44 60,000
50 Jerry Kenney M 38 59,113
51 Andre Dumais M 37 56,520
52 beverly dellinger F 59 50,000
53 Tom McGuire M 58 46,998
54 Jeff Goon M 46 46,620
55 Gabriela Caranfil F 48 46,026
56 Anthony Parendo M 67 43,329
57 Mike Mulvihill M 50 40,000
58 Kiba Chan F 23 40,000
59 Jackson P M 10 36,898
60 Jim Brink M 39 35,718
61 jonny kutz F 63 34,824
62 Dalton B M 8 34,306
63 Richard Freeman M 55 31,500
64 Heather Woiciechowski F 49 31,338
65 Sorin Spanoche M 44 29,023
66 Pat Schlueter M 65 26,100
67 Tim Porter M 52 25,785
68 Tristan B M 12 25,032
69 Kaylee S F 8 23,366
70 Stephanie Batcheller F 53 22,730
71 Rick Carveth M 59 22,688
72 Ashlee S F 6 21,222
73 Mary Onorati F 25 20,704
74 Ethan S M 5 20,599
75 Gail Whitelaw F 52 20,000
76 Will Worthwine M 54 18,600
77 David Hunter M 51 17,001
78 James Tsao M 42 16,575
79 Coulter M M 14 13,007
80 Scott Cooper M 45 11,500
81 Allie B F 5 10,778
82 Jason Stirmers M 36 10,000
83 Brayden B M 4 9,194
84 Melissa Talbot F 42 8,068
85 Jim M. M 60 6,307
86 Ben S M 13 5,666
87 Tom Pinckney M 66 5,000
88 Doug Miner M 54 5,000
89 Laurie Pachter F 49 2,500
90 Mitch Terra Sanitatis Friedland M 51 0
91 Jane Newall F 41 0
92 Marie Armstrong F 53 0
93 Rocket Man M 38 0
94 Mike Crossley M 54 0
95 Orion Newall-Vuillemot M 9 0
96 Anais Newall-Vuillemot F 7 0
97 Elias N M 6 0
98 Debbie Vuillemot F 45 0
99 Tim Strasburger M 16 0
100 barbara grandberg F 60 0
101 Akira N M 4 0
102 Tracy Clark F 45 0
103 Adian N M 2 0
104 Beth Peterson F 40 0


Total Challenge Meters as of 30 March @ 0942 MDT = 8,215,550 m

[Kona2]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, David T, on achieving a TWO million meter rowing season! We wish you many, MANY more! Woot !

[bg]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, David T, on achieving a TWO million meter rowing season! We wish you many, MANY more! Woot !

wooo hooo david t....

[Kona2]

Madness...Day 30! !


Hooyah! We're collecting bales and bales of shamrocks! Today Ross, Collin, Peter H, Rich and G-l-o-r-i-a have passed the 25 day mark in the overall challenge ! Erg onward, everyone! We're almost through the Maze of Madness....don't give in now!!

And how cool it is when one of our team members achieves a personal milestone during a challenge! Gives everyone a much needed lift when we get to celebrate! We have SO many opportunities for milestone achievement during the Battle of the Ergs .... otherwise known as the World Erg Challenge. Whether you're collecting your millons of meters or just starting down the path of the first million....it's all good !


Season meters as of 333/365 = 117,886,203 m

Total meters on the day = 477,034 m

Oars in space (participation) = 30 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.7 MM Jim K
5.6 MM Chris aka Minnie
2.0 MM David T
1.6 MM Harold

TWO Million Meter Watch:

Jim B with (5,849 m) to go!

Kristine with (120,000 m) to go!

Ronnie with (177,762 m) to go!

ONE Million Meter Watch:

Bobbie with (144,147 m) to go!

And thanks, as always, to those who row with us -- you are great teammates on this virtual journey!

Brayden 725 m
Tris 1,250 m
Ashlee 1,285 m
Ethan 1,300 m
Kaylee 1,450 m
Dalton 2,450 m
Laurie 2,500 m
Mario Jackson 2,803 m
Tony m
Jim K 4,850 m
G-l-o-r-i-a m
Rich m
Andrea 5,644 m
Bobbie 5,895 m
Chuck 6,000 m
Peter G 7,500 m
Benny m
David T 9,000 m
Mike G 10,000 m
Peter H 10,000 m
James G 10,026 m
Ronnie m
Harold 10,112 m
K2 10,133 m
Dave H 12,001 m
Dan S 12,157 m
Dan M 12,500 m
Tammy 14,000 m
David A 14,611 m
Rod 14,823 m
Minnie 15,640 m
Jay 16,201 m
Rosita 16,403 m
Kristine 20,000 m
Greg C 20,846 m
Ross m
Baz 25,000 m
Ron 35,045 m
Collin 90,000 m ...wowzer!

[Kristine Strasburger]

I had to chuckle when it was mentioned about moving the ERG outside to get the benefit of outdoor exercise We still have two feet of snow on the gound and we have a winter storm watch out for friday with 7-14 inches of snow predicted for our area
4M for the season That would be a stretch, but something to strive for. I was wondering what form the carrot and stick are going to take I had a thought (happens occasionally). If there is enough interest I thought it would be nice to have T shirts made up to commerate our successful moon landing. I think I read in one of the past posts that there was a Luna-Tic T shirt at one point. I would certainly be interested in buying one if this came about and I would wear it with pride
Ron

Wow, Ron, what a picture! Is this outside your front door?

I love the idea of an official moon landing commemorative tee shirt with the date of our landing on it. It could be posted on Cafepress, and people could order as desired. If AJ came up with a design and put it up for sale on Cafepress, I would certainly support his getting the profit for his efforts. What say you, AJ?

And a big Woot to you, David, on reaching 2 Million Meters! Way to Row!

[rsdavr]

I had to chuckle when it was mentioned about moving the ERG outside to get the benefit of outdoor exercise We still have two feet of snow on the gound and we have a winter storm watch out for friday with 7-14 inches of snow predicted for our area
4M for the season That would be a stretch, but something to strive for. I was wondering what form the carrot and stick are going to take I had a thought (happens occasionally). If there is enough interest I thought it would be nice to have T shirts made up to commerate our successful moon landing. I think I read in one of the past posts that there was a Luna-Tic T shirt at one point. I would certainly be interested in buying one if this came about and I would wear it with pride
Ron

Hey Ron - thanks for all your great rowing. Way to lead the pack!

But...if you get to live in Vermont, you deserve to move your erg outside. Think how hard you'll have to row to keep warm! And the scenery looks worth it! But...you'll have to add a heating element to enrage's O2 Trainer so it won't plug up with ice.
Ross

[Toothdoc]

Woohoo and hooyah! Congratulations, David T, on achieving a TWO million meter rowing season! We wish you many, MANY more! Woot !

Way to row Dave!

danno

[Kona2]

4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 8,385,727 104 80,632
5 RowPro Online Virtual Club 8,079,578 91 88,787
6 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 7,532,235 31 242,975


Oooooga! Ooooooga! Battle stations, Lunies! To the ergs! The gap is narrowing!