Calisthenics,
acrobatics, and gymnastics provide outstanding advantages compared to other
activities by increasing body-oxygen levels. Volker Schmitz has been teaching
Chinese calisthenics, acrobatics, and gymnastics for many years. Together with
Dr. Artour Rakhimov, they discuss the questions, “How can breathing retraining
help people practice these moving arts?” and “How these moving arts can improve
their health and their body-oxygen levels?”
On the one
hand, there are improvements in the muscular structure and oxygenation and
regeneration of the muscles. We also have improvements in the psychological
functioning and the ability to concentrate. Also, in joint functioning and the
strength of the joints improves in gymnastics.
Proper
breathing helps to physically recover faster from acrobatics, calisthenics
gymnastics. This type of breathing is described as when we breathe much less in
our unconscious or automatic breathing patterns. Most people over-breathe twice
in their body-oxygen levels according to the medical norm. A hundred years ago,
breathing 10 to 12 breaths per minute was the norm. Nowadays people's mental
states include a lot of anxiety, panic attacks, depression etc.
What is the
benefit for people that slowed down their breathing to the medical norm in
relation to these moving ? Many people have more access to the muscles from
improved nerve functioning. You do not only need big muscles for exercises, but
proper breathing helps your performance by using all your muscles together.
The other
benefit relates to losing weight. Even if you are a few kilos above weight it
is very difficult to do a front flip. Also, endurance and sleep are improved by
breathing. People that hyperventilate oversleep. Students with 60 seconds for
the body-oxygen test sleep 4 and a half hours. They crave physical exercise and
they do not complain about fatigue. They have joy from exercise.
All these
kinds of acrobatic movements have a lot to do with the core of the body. For
flips and handstands, you need a whole muscle chain that depends on core
strength. Generally, gymnasts develop much faster in breathing retraining
because of their control of the body and strength of their diaphragm. In the
higher stages of calisthenics, they have a lot of mental strength. This mind
state also shows up in breathing retraining. This allows you to relax.
The
functionally of the muscles is the next point. Calisthenics with breathing retraining
prevents scar tissues and helps with the improvement of the joints. Breathing
retraining is a difficult process. Breathing retraining can be easily
intellectually understood, but it takes considerable effort for oneself to
improve. In general terms of time and efforts, if you are starting with 20
seconds for the body-oxygen level or the control pause test you can go to the
norm of 40 seconds in 1 or 2 months. This is a very fast rate.
For some
other students, it can take about half a year to reach 40 seconds. It depends
on their age and weight. For someone that is practicing calisthenics, their
improvement would be much faster because of their control of the body and a lot
of enhanced functioning of the body. The practice of daily exercise greatly
helps to have a higher body-oxygen level.
You can find
more details about acrobatics,
calisthenics and gymnastics breathing benefits here: https://www.normalbreathing.com/sports/calisthenics-acrobatics-gymnastics-benefits.php.
Volker has
many students for a long time and he compares people that are solely
bodybuilders to calisthenic students. The calisthenic students have a very
large advantage in breathing retraining performance compared to bodybuilders.
He would suggest for bodybuilders to include calisthenic exercises to enhance
muscle functioning and to reduce scar tissue. Sometimes they like having bigger
muscles, but they would not be as strong as people involved in calisthenics.
The YouTube
URL of this video "Acrobatics, calisthenics gymnastics
breathing benefits" is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgCkgQExwA /.
The video
features Volker Schmitz (Kung Fu teacher and Buteyko/NormalBreathing
practitioner from Hamburg in Germany) and Dr. Artour Rakhimov (Buteyko
Practitioner Master Trainer from Toronto, Canada).
The video description was created with the participation of Chris
Prokop (Mississauga, Canada).
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