Our good friend Fred Muench over at Mobile Health Interventions just let us know about a great new service they have just recently launched called Health Txts. This handy new service allows you to have specialized messages sent to your mobile device to help you change behaviors and reach your goals more quickly. Message categories span the spectrum - everything from healthy eating and exercise, reducing drinking and drug use, gambling and smoking cessation, to stress management and dental hygiene. Health Care professionals can even create customized programs for their own clients!
This type of messaging has been shown to be a powerful way of behavior modification as it is constantly available and can help guide you through your weakest moments. Best of all, it is free during their launch.
Fred has a lot of experience in this area. He was one of the brains behind the Stress Eraser, a cool biofeedback device for triggering the body's natural relaxation response through guided breathing. He was also one of the key contributors to the Breath Pacer mobile application, which also helps to develop the habit of slow deep breathing.
These are great products that we highly recommend. If you are serious about improving your health, performance, and emotional well-being, learn to develop your most powerful asset - your breath. It can make a world of difference in every dimension of your life.
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Showing posts with label performance improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance improvement. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Breathing Your Way to Olympic Gold
In our book "Perfect Breathing" we spent a lot of time writing about the many ways that top athletes and performers use breathing techniques to elicit the absolute best from their minds and bodies. This week, when it's all about the Olympics all the time, we've come across a couple of great examples from the frozen (or slushy) slopes of Whistler.
First up, Alexandre Bilodeau, the moguls champ and winner of Canada's first gold medal, was part of a Top Secret performance improvement program that taught him and other Canadian athletes how to use breathing techniques to focus their minds and identify and eliminate the anxiety and tension that were holding them back.
Bilodeau learned to identify his unique tension profile through a process called bioneuralfeedback and then learned breathing techiques that specifically addressed his tension points. "Breathing through my shoulders, breathing through my legs and breathing through my mind, it helps you to let it go and bring your focus into the present moment," he said. "The hardest thing for an athlete in any sport is to stay in the right now." Read the whole story here.
In another post from Canada's Times & Transcript, Jim Foster zeros in on the breathing techniques that Olympic biathletes and other marksmen us to put a hole in a bulls-eye from 150 meters at various times during a 20 kilometer cross-country ski race. Not only does the breath play a role in quickly calming the mind and body so that you can make any kind of shot, but the breath has to be used to actually control the shot - if your lungs are full that increases your excitement level and the shakiness or your hands (I'm guessing that's bad), while holding your breath causes fatigue and negatively affects your vision. There are several techniques, but taking the shot during the pause between the exhale and the next inhale seems to be very effective. Read the whole story here.
In every contest we've watched, it is obvious how having control over your mind, body, and emotions can be the deciding factor (except for perhaps curling) and the breath is the most powerful source of control we have over them all!
First up, Alexandre Bilodeau, the moguls champ and winner of Canada's first gold medal, was part of a Top Secret performance improvement program that taught him and other Canadian athletes how to use breathing techniques to focus their minds and identify and eliminate the anxiety and tension that were holding them back.
Bilodeau learned to identify his unique tension profile through a process called bioneuralfeedback and then learned breathing techiques that specifically addressed his tension points. "Breathing through my shoulders, breathing through my legs and breathing through my mind, it helps you to let it go and bring your focus into the present moment," he said. "The hardest thing for an athlete in any sport is to stay in the right now." Read the whole story here.
In another post from Canada's Times & Transcript, Jim Foster zeros in on the breathing techniques that Olympic biathletes and other marksmen us to put a hole in a bulls-eye from 150 meters at various times during a 20 kilometer cross-country ski race. Not only does the breath play a role in quickly calming the mind and body so that you can make any kind of shot, but the breath has to be used to actually control the shot - if your lungs are full that increases your excitement level and the shakiness or your hands (I'm guessing that's bad), while holding your breath causes fatigue and negatively affects your vision. There are several techniques, but taking the shot during the pause between the exhale and the next inhale seems to be very effective. Read the whole story here.
In every contest we've watched, it is obvious how having control over your mind, body, and emotions can be the deciding factor (except for perhaps curling) and the breath is the most powerful source of control we have over them all!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Joe Kita - One Small Change
We are pretty excited that Joe Kita - who writes the "One Small Change" blog for Core Performance (www.coreperformance.com) - will be focusing on his breath this month and blogging about it.
Joe is a writer, editor, motivational speaker and teacher. Besides being a contributing editor for Men's Health and Women's Health magazines, he is the author of five books. These include: Another Shot, in which he relived his 20 biggest life regrets, and Accidental Courage, in which he faced his 12 greatest fears.
Each month Joe make one small, healthy change in his life and shares the pros and cons with his readers. Previous changes have been drinking 95 oz of water everyday, napping for 20 minutes, giving up caffeine, and stretching for 30 minutes.
Joe interviewed us to get the specifics of our Perfect Breathing program and will be giving it a go for the next 31 days. Should be fun to follow his progress!
Joe is a writer, editor, motivational speaker and teacher. Besides being a contributing editor for Men's Health and Women's Health magazines, he is the author of five books. These include: Another Shot, in which he relived his 20 biggest life regrets, and Accidental Courage, in which he faced his 12 greatest fears.
Each month Joe make one small, healthy change in his life and shares the pros and cons with his readers. Previous changes have been drinking 95 oz of water everyday, napping for 20 minutes, giving up caffeine, and stretching for 30 minutes.
Joe interviewed us to get the specifics of our Perfect Breathing program and will be giving it a go for the next 31 days. Should be fun to follow his progress!
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