A SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE
Created by Patrick McKeown, Breathing expert and author of 'The Oxygen Advantage', SportsMask is designed to restrict your air intake, strengthen your breathing muscles and increase delivery of oxygen to your organs and muscles
DELAYED ONSET OF FATIGUE AND LACTIC ACID
While wearing the SportsMask you will greatly disturb the blood acid base balance, causing the body to make adaptations to delay the onset of lactic acid and fatigue.
IMPROVED AEROBIC PERFORMANCE
Restricting your breathing by wearing your SportsMask will result in reduced blood oxygen saturation. This will provoke your body to generate more red blood cells to carry oxygen and therefore improve your aerobic capacity.
SHARPER COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Since time immemorial, making has practiced focusing on the breath to tame and train the brain. By focusing on your breath as it enters and leaves the body, your brain is forced to focus exclusively on one task at a time. Your SportsMask offers a unique way to improve your concentration by bringing your attention to your breathing in a natural way.
STRONGER RESPIRATORY MUSCLES
Regular aerobic training will improve your cardiovascular and skeletal muscle function, but will not improve the functioning of your breathing muscles. Wearing your SportsMask will create resistance to your breathing and make your breathing muscles work harder.
LOWER INCIDENCE OF EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA
The vast majority of asthma sufferers breathe excessively and through the mouth. This results in the inhalation of cool, dry air into the airways, which literally sucks moisture from the inner wall, causing them to narrow and constrict. Feelings of chest tightness, wheezing, coughing or breathlessness will follow. Wearing your SportsMask will restrict the amount of air being drawn into the lungs and reduce these asthma symptoms.
STIMULATE ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS WITHOUT THE TRAUMA
While the positive effects of high intensity exercise are compelling, training at high intensity is not suitable or possible foe everyone. In sports such as boxing, MMA and sprinting, which are predominantly anaerobic, training repeatedly performing exercise at high intensity to stimulate an anaerobic state can be traumatising to the athlete. To reduce the risk of injury, the athlete could train at a more moderate pace while wearing the SportsMask.