- Improves Respiratory Strength: Strengthens the muscles involved in breathing, such as the diaphragm and intercostal muscles, leading to more efficient and effective breathing.
- Enhances Lung Capacity: Regular use can help expand lung capacity, allowing for deeper and more controlled breaths, which is beneficial for overall respiratory health.
- Supports Postural Alignment: Encourages proper breathing techniques that promote better postural alignment by engaging core muscles and improving spinal support.
- Reduces Breathlessness: Helps reduce symptoms of breathlessness and shortness of breath, particularly beneficial for individuals with conditions like COPD, asthma, or other respiratory issues.
- Promotes Relaxation: Facilitates deep, controlled breathing, which can help reduce stress, promote relaxation, and improve mental clarity.
- Aids in Physical Performance: Enhances respiratory efficiency, leading to better oxygen delivery to muscles during physical activities, improving overall endurance and performance.
- Drug-Free Therapy: Provides a natural, drug-free approach to respiratory therapy, making it a safe and effective option for improving breathing without the need for medication.
- Portable and Easy to Use: Compact and lightweight design makes it easy to use at home, at work, or while traveling, ensuring consistent respiratory training wherever you are.
- Supports Overall Well-Being: Improves breathing quality, which can have a positive impact on overall health and well-being by ensuring adequate oxygen intake and promoting better cardiovascular function.
By incorporating The Breather into your daily routine, you can improve respiratory strength, enhance lung capacity, and support better posture, leading to improved overall respiratory health and well-being.
Amazon Customer –
This is a great breathing exercise tool! Easy to clean
Trenton –
I got this to optimize my breathing and it does seem to make breathing in general more automatic , deep, less effortful. Their app makes me mad because I can’t unsubscribe from their worthless Emails (yeah I went to the website, they still send Emails anyway) and in the app itself it asks you questions weekly that would be appropriate for someone who can barely function without suffocating. Also it forces you to take a day off, I feel fine doing it daily, let me decide instead of forcing me. So the app implementation has been too heavily influenced by some hyper authoritarian SLP’s who consider all breather users their patients who they must protect from themselves , but the product overall is good and can make a difference for your breathing.
David –
I am a 69 year-old high school teacher, who–fourteen months ago–got winded climbing the stairs to the second floor of my building, where my classroom is located. I had to sit and recover before engaging in conversation with my colleague in the first classroom at the top of the stairs.
Within a month of starting to use The Breather, I was climbing the stairs without stopping to catch my breath, and this year I have been able to engage in moderate conversation while ascending.
I experienced significant positive results quickly.
MJ –
With consistent use you will reap the benefits of a stronger diaphragm…Great value for stronger lungs😊
Mrs Oliphant fan –
Background:
In the past I’ve experienced low level asthma infrequently, just occasionally having to do deep breathing to make it go away, and just causing issues for an hour or two. Also, my doctor told me a year ago that I’m borderline on the spirometry test.
Then a few weeks ago I started having asthma attacks that wouldn’t fully go away, leaving me with a tight chest and repeated attacks, including waking me up at night. Finally went to the doctor and got two puffers – the one that helped was the twice-daily one with corticosteroids. However after a couple of weeks I wasn’t completely asthma-free and was worried I’d be stuck on medications permanently.
Happening now:
I bought the “The Breather” about 10 days ago – it is amazing! First of all, the asthma attacks are gone, despite the fact I am weaning myself quickly off the corticosteroids. (Maybe too fast, but so far ok. Not recommending the speed for others who may have long-term issues.)
This is such a clever device, with separate settings for breathing in and breathing out. The idea is to go up a level each week, if possible. The online videos show how to breathe, and at what pace to breathe in and out. I would recommend watching several of their interesting videos before getting going.
I did level 1 easily for a few days, now on level 2. (The levels go up to 5 and 6 respectively.) Am doing well on 2, but definitely feel the effort. Will be very interested to see how easy/hard it will be to graduate to level 3 next week. I will do each level as long as needed to be ready for the next step. These exercises are strengthening the breathing muscles, so it seems like it will be important to make this a part of daily life always. (Besides I feel really good after the exercises – maybe hadn’t been getting enough oxygen before?!) No more asthma, but when I even feel chest tightness, doing another set of exercises makes it go away. I’ll report back in a month or two on how it is going.
Update 04/09/20: graduated to level 3 and doing well on it. Tried to go to 4 but found it too difficult. However there is enough resistance at 3 to feel there has been real progress. Will try 4 again in a few weeks!
Update 05/09/20: just today tried level 4 again. Takes more effort till I get used to it. Inhale is easier, so starting there and will move exhale to 4 in a few days. This little device has been a life-saver for me. Now that I know “how” to breathe, I can also do the pursed-lip method of breathing in and out any time I feel my chest start to tighten. (No more asthma.) Am also working on making my nose-breathing deeper. Lastly I recently bought the Mibest pulse oximeter and was amazed to discover that how I breathe can change the reading from borderline 95 to 98 and up! So the goal is to get my normal nose-breathing to be deeper without my thinking about it. (Use oximeter on middle finger of dominant hand.)
Kindle Customer –
works great and great price
al o –
Prescribed by doctor. Simple to use. Seems to be helping
Michael F Harty –
Been using daily for about 8 months (though the app wouldn’t know). I set it almost at the highest level (more resistance) and use the “Endurance” training plan – 30 breaths morning and evening with one day off per week. Overall, I’ve found the device to be helpful and I keep it right on my desk which encourages consistency.
The app (iphone for me) is very balky. Every time I tap on the app icon it’s an adventure. Sometimes it simply freezes at the main screen. Other times it will incorrectly show that I’m on a day off and it might stay that way for a week and/or until I change the training plan and start over. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app but that hasn’t helped.
Perhaps most annoying is that when the app is (frequently) malfunctioning, I get emails asking me whether I’m okay and why I’m not being consistent in my training! In fact, I’m being very consistent with my training. The app really isn’t much more than a stopwatch with a voice saying “inhale” and “exhale” so I have to wonder why it’s so screwed up. I was able to contact the Help desk once early on after purchase, but not since. Easy to imagine they’re overwhelmed!
I would say that about half the time I simply use my phone’s stopwatch and count the breaths. Not great for tracking my training but helpful for holding down the frustration and my blood pressure!
Mike H
Amazon Customer –
Can use immediately with little instruction.
Bonnie C –
I’m very happy with my purchase of the Breather. It has made me realize just how much I needed it. I love how you start off on number 1 and gradually increase as your lungs get stronger all the way up to number 6. It is also very easy to clean. It’s a win win!