Often when a person tries to do exercise on their own, without the support of a trainer they forget to focus on one keep element in health and exercise. This key element is breathing. It is important as we develop our bodies through exercise that we also develop our focus and attention to better breathing patterns and practices.
Learning to breathe more deeply as we exercise and live our life helps to increase our effectiveness at reaching one of the goals of getting exercise: stress relief. One of the many ways to practice breathing is to sit on the floor or in a chair and relax. This is a great practice after exercise and stretching to calm yourself and focus on increasing the depth of your breathing.
Here is a simple, step by step routine for your cool down breathing exercises.
-Start by resting into your seat, don’t worry about your breath and get comfortable.
-Next pay attention to your body. Notice how you are feeling, particularly in the areas that you worked out today.
-Spend some time, if you did lots of stairs breathing while listening to how your legs are feeling.
-Once you are settled into your body, you can start to focus more on your breathing.
-You can use this time like meditation, clearing your mind, but more important is to focus on breathing deeply into your lungs.
-Spend five minutes (such a small part of your 24 hour day) just breathing and relaxing. There will be time later to rush into the next task, but give yourself these five minutes.
-When you finish your five minutes of breathing exercise, give yourself a few minutes to get up slowly.
-Notice how you are feeling.
-Make sure your daily exercise is a time for you to give to yourself
In this way you can expand your daily exercise without spending any more money and just a bit of time.
