The Oxygen Advantage
The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You
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Alan Smyth
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Written by:
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Patrick McKeown
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A simple yet revolutionary approach to improving your body's oxygen use and increasing 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 best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Achieve more with less effort: The secret to weight loss, fitness, and wellness lies in the most basic and most overlooked function of your body - how you breathe. One of the biggest obstacles to better health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic overbreathing. 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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- silvercity
- 2020-03-18
Amazing Book
This is mind binding book for me. As a marathoner who runs 2/3 marathons a year. All by Maffetone Low Hr Rate training. This is truly a game changer. Highly recommended!
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- 2021-05-02
Life changing for me.
Life changing for me. Everyone should be taught this from childhood and I say this as an MD with a passion for disease prevention.
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- 2017-10-25
Life Changing
This is the second time I've read this book, loved it just as much. Simple exercises to change your health, perspective and life overall.
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- Nathan Loney
- 2021-01-16
life changing
these practices are already making measurable differences in my athletic ability and over all healthiness. I strongly recommend listening to what he has to say about the breath!
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- Travis Feltz
- 2019-10-12
Easy to read and easy to apply
The book is written in a very simple way and is meant to be applied in a simple straightforward manner but also does a great job of explaining the mechanisms behind the scenes if your interested in applicable physiology. Good for athletes and god for anyone looking to get healthier and keep their body and brain lasting longer.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-05-22
it said heading optional, then it became mandatory
I love this book I ended up buying the paperback copy so I have a visual reference!
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-08-23
Great book, though repetitive.
Strongly recommend this book!
Sadly, like most books, it's longer than it needed to be through sheer repetition of many concepts.
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- J.R. Clubb
- 2018-11-29
Breathe
I enjoyed the content and continue to practice his concepts daily. There is a lot of filler but the exercises are beneficial.
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- Sophia
- 2020-09-03
amazing read!
absolutely loved reading this! such a great reference for what I do for work, but also probably the best audio book I've read to date that I can workout too and be really engrossed in it! love it!
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- Irvin
- 2020-01-19
Phenomenal Eye Opening Book
Oxygen Advantage is a phenomenal eye opening book. It's a simple concept that in modern life we breathe too much oxygen and many of us who struggle with various activities (work, school, sports) do not breathe through our noses but through our mouthes. We also breathe heavily through our chests not our stomaches. This is not how nature intended!
I definitely am one of those people who breathes too much and regrettably through the mouth and chest. Over the last 5 years, after having two kids, my sleep quality has deteriorated, my concentration plummeted and my stress has risen. I often wondered what has happened to me?
After listening to OA I now know why. I am not breathing correctly and just getting into shape at the gym will not fix that!
I followed the techniques in this book and within a few short days my body picked up on what I was doing and took over. I am now breathing through my nose and stomach with relative ease during rest and could not be happier. My head is clear! I can't wait to keep making progress and see where life takes me.
I highly recommend others give this a listen and to apply the techniques. My wife said I am like I was 10 years ago.
Thank you Patrick for making this book into an audiobook.
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