The Oxygen Advantage de Patrick McKeown

The Oxygen Advantage

Autor Patrick McKeown

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2016

Diferența majoră pe care The Oxygen Advantage o aduce în peisajul literaturii de sănătate este demitizarea ideii că „mai mult oxigen înseamnă mai bine”. În timp ce majoritatea ghidurilor de wellness ne îndeamnă să tragem aer adânc în piept, Patrick McKeown demonstrează, prin argumente științifice solide, că secretul performanței și al longevității rezidă, paradoxal, în reducerea volumului de aer respirat. Apreciem modul în care autorul transformă un act reflex într-o unealtă de biohacking accesibilă oricui, de la persoanele sedentare până la campionii de triatlon. Fanii volumului The Power of Breathing Techniques de Lutz Schneider vor recunoaște aceeași atenție la volumul de aer necesar supraviețuirii optime, însă McKeown aplică aceste concepte într-un context nou, mult mai dinamic: cel al performanței atletice și al simulării antrenamentului la altitudine. Structura cărții este extrem de practică, debutând cu testul BOLT (Body Oxygen Level Test), care oferă cititorului o oglindă fidelă a stării sale actuale de sănătate respiratorie. Ulterior, suntem ghidați prin exerciții care antrenează toleranța corpului la dioxidul de carbon, optimizând livrarea oxigenului către mușchi și creier. În contextul operei sale, această carte reprezintă punctul culminant al cercetărilor începute în Anxiety Free. Dacă în lucrările anterioare McKeown se concentra pe liniștirea minții prin respirație, aici el extinde viziunea către biologia pură, oferind o soluție integrată pentru pierderea în greutate, eliminarea simptomelor astmatice și creșterea nivelului de energie. Este o lectură cu un ritm alert, susținută de ilustrații alb-negru care clarifică tehnicile propuse, transformând o funcție biologică banală într-un avantaj competitiv real.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062349477
ISBN-10: 0062349473
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 137 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția William Morrow

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Recomandăm această carte oricărei persoane care simte că a atins un plafon în antrenamentele fizice sau care se confruntă cu oboseală cronică și somn de proastă calitate. Veți câștiga o metodă concretă, validată științific, de a vă recalibra sistemul respirator. Este un ghid esențial pentru a înțelege cum respirația pe nas și controlul volumului de aer pot revoluționa metabolismul și claritatea mentală.

Despre autor

Patrick McKeown este un specialist de renume mondial în tehnici de respirație, fiind format direct de către Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, creatorul celebrei metode Buteyko. Absolvent al Trinity College din Dublin, McKeown și-a dedicat ultimele două decenii educării profesioniștilor din domeniul sănătății și atleților de elită. Experiența sa vastă, acumulată prin lucrul cu peste 5.000 de clienți, inclusiv unități speciale de elită și sportivi olimpici, este transpusă în lucrări precum Anxiety Free și Breathe Smarter, Run Stronger. Este recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru capacitatea sa de a traduce mecanisme fiziologice complexe în protocoale de antrenament simple și eficiente.

Descriere scurtă

A simple yet revolutionary approach to weight loss, fitness, and wellness lies in the most basic and most overlooked function of your body—how you breathe. Improve your body’s oxygen use and increase your health, weight loss, and sports performance—whether you’re a recovering couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola.
One of the biggest obstacles to better health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic over-breathing. We often take many more breaths than we need—without realizing it—contributing to poor health and fitness, including a host of disorders, from anxiety and asthma to insomnia and heart problems.
In The Oxygen Advantage, the man who has trained over 5,000 people—including Olympic and professional athletes—in reduced breathing exercises now shares his scientifically validated techniques to help you breathe more efficiently. Patrick McKeown teaches you the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body, then gets you started with a Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to determine how efficiently your body uses oxygen. He then shows you how to increase your BOLT score by using light breathing exercises and learning how to simulate high altitude training, a technique used by Navy SEALs and professional athletes to help increase endurance, weight loss, and vital red blood cells to dramatically improve cardio-fitness.
Following his program, even the most out-of-shape person (including those with chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma) can climb stairs, run for a bus, or play soccer without gasping for air, and everyone can achieve:

Easy weight loss and weight maintenance
Improved sleep and energy
Increased concentration
Reduced breathlessness during exercise
Heightened athletic performance
Improved cardiovascular health
Elimination of asthmatic symptoms, and more.

With The Oxygen Advantage, you can look better, feel better, and do more—it’s as easy as breathing.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

THE SECRET TO HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WEIGHT LOSS LIES IN HOW YOU BREATHE.
One of the biggest obstacles to your health and fitness is a rarely identified problem—and one that is unknown outside of medical journals: chronic overbreathing. We can breathe two to three times more air than required without even knowing it, and chronic overbreathing leads to loss of health and poor fitness and contributes to problems such as anxiety, asthma, fatigue, insomnia, heart problems, and even obesity.
Within minutes you can improve the amount of oxygen delivered to active muscles and organs by changing how you breathe, using the simple and easy-to-apply techniques in this book. Whether you’re an elite athlete looking to simulate high-altitude training or an everyday person looking for more daily stamina and health benefits, these revolutionary, scientifically validated breathing exercises have the potential to maximize and drastically improve your current performance level.

Recenzii

“McKeown introduces readers to the “Oxygen Advantage,” an innovative but complex breathing technique that purportedly improves overall health… McKeown’s confident attitude should help his book appeal to a wide audience.” — Publishers Weekly
“I’m an NFL wide receiver and my Bolt Score was 13. Three weeks later it’s 30 and improving; running has gotten so much easier. I’m in better shape for another opportunity because I’m so much better at the simple act of breathing. It really does add up!” — Jay Wisner, NFL Free Agent
“Patrick McKeown, breathing trainer and author of The Oxygen Advantage, recommends breathing through your nose…It’ll feel weird, but within a few weeks, you’ll notice you can exercise longer and don’t tire as quickly.” — Dr. Oz The Good Life

Notă biografică

Patrick McKeown has helped thousands of people to substantially improve their sports performance and overall health by incorporating simple, medically proven principles and exercises into their lives. In 1997, after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin, McKeown applied the work of Dr. Konstantin Buteyko to address his lifelong asthma, soaring stress levels, and sleep-disordered breathing. The Oxygen Advantage is an extension of this work, combining simulation of high-altitude training and specifically formulated exercises not only for significantly improving anyone's health, but also to empower athletes to improve their sports performance safely, legally, and at no cost. In addition to running workshops throughout his native Ireland, each year he gives workshops in North America, Europe, and Australia on maximizing one's life's potential through breath.

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The secret to your health, fitness and overall wellbeing lies in the most basic and overlooked aspect of your workout: how you breathe. Developing body strength while ignoring breathing strength is counterproductive.

In The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick McKeown combines his successful breathing exercises with techniques designed to simulate high-altitude training in a highly successful programme that will significantly improve anyone's health but will also empower athletes to improve their sports performance. These scientifically validated exercises have the potential to drastically improve your overall fitness, whether you are a habitual couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion.

These easy-to-use techniques can help to reduce your breathlessness, improve your sleep as well as reduce anxiety and stress. Drawing on his own experiences as an ex-asthmatic and the work he has done to help athletes and asthma sufferers alike to achieve greater fitness, Patrick shows you the key to a healthier, fitter you.