This breathing technique will help develop your diaphragmatic breathing, which will help during recovery and in the middle of the swing sets.
You need several drinking straws. Insert the end of one straw into another about an inch deep to make a long straw. Make a triple straw in the same manner. If the straws get almost plugged up when inserted into one another, tape them together with scotch tape instead of inserting one into another.
Lie on your back with a single straw in your mouth. Pinch off your nose with your fingers, or use a diver’s nose clip. Relax, close your eyes, and breathe. That is it. The exercise is what Gray Cook calls “self-correcting.”
After a few minutes, replace the straw with two straws. In the beginning you will feel like you are not getting enough air. If you do not panic, you will soon figure out how to adjust your breathing: longer, slower, deeper.
When breathing with two straws becomes comfortable, replace the two with the three. This will notch up the challenge. You will be forced to completely fill and empty your lungs in a very patient manner.
The exercise develops surreal calm. Practice it as often as possible, ten minutes at a shot. Remember its lessons when resting between sets of swings.
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