Welcome to Season 2; Episode 5! This week we are speaking with Lifetime Fitness Lenexa's - Coach and Metabolic Wizard Jonathan Fiser about The Science of Breath!
Back at Episode one, we spoke with Yoga Instructor Elektra Hendrickson and Coach Josh Thomas about the Power of Breath, as a continuation off that we are talking with Jonathan about the different types of breath and what happens in your body from the brain, and even how the breath plays a part in where Fat goes. So, get locked in and tune in with us Jonathan totally nerds out (in a significantly awesome way) and break it all down for us!
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Bonus Information: Jonathan’s Notes!!!
Tell us a bit about yourself, your background, how you got where you are today?
Well, like most of us in the industry, I started playing sports at a very early age. Unfortunately, there is a high risk for injury in kids if they have coaches that are not well versed in injury prevention and proper exercise routines relative to the kid's age. Well anyway, I hurt my shoulder when I was around 12 years old. However, the tear was not large enough for the doctor to want to do surgery, so instead, he sent me to Physical Therapy. That is where everything changed and where I fell in love with fitness. My Physical Therapist was terrific, he not only healed and rehabbed my shoulder, but more importantly, he would always explain why we were doing what we were doing. This was the primary factor that drove me to go to school and study what I studied because I wanted to be able to do for others what he had done for me.
As a follow-up, we are touching on the science of breathing and
exercise with you Jonathan. When it comes to science, help us understand why it essential. (Maybe talk about breath mechanics)
As always, I like to start with defining certain things we are talking about. So, in terms of breathing, there are two specific types; sympathetic breathing (mouth breathing) and parasympathetic breathing (nose breathing). Sympathetic breathing is our fight or flight breathing, it is driven by stress and is a really great way to get in a lot of oxygen in fast, however, there are other mechanisms that are going on in the body at this same time that can hinder weight loss and fitness results if it goes on chronically. More so, we often autonomically shut off our lower lobes in our lungs when breathing sympathetically which means long term, it is not an effective way to move oxygen, and nutrients around the body.
Parasympathetic breathing is more associated with nose breathing and regarding our nervous system, our rest and digest mechanic. Just think of this one as the one that is keeping you alive 99% of the time. Right now, while none of you are paying attention to your breathing, you can thank your parasympathetic system for that. Most of the time, this is the system we want to be using, again, both systems have their function, and like most things we need both, we just want to use them at th
