Japanese Breathing Exercise

INTRODUCTION

Miki Ryosuke, a Japanese actor, recently discovered a natural method that helped him lose weight. After experiencing back pain, Miki’s doctor recommended that he performs a certain exercise each day to help relieve his pain. After performing the exercise for a few weeks, Miki lost 28.7 pounds and 4.7 inches from his waist! Miki refers to the technique as the long-breath diet. You stand in position, take a three-second breath, then exhale strongly for seven seconds.

2 WAYS OF DOING LONG-BREATH DIET

Mr Ryosuke claims that people who practice this breathing technique for 2 - 5 minutes a day will see rapid benefits. Oddity Central reports that there are 2 ways of practicing the diet.

The first method involves tensing the buttocks while standing with one foot in front of the body and placing most of the body’s weight on the back foot. In this position, the dieter is encouraged to inhale for three seconds while lifting their arms above their head. They are then told to breathe out while tensing all of their muscles for seven seconds.

The second way of practicing the technique involves the dieter standing upright while tightening their buttocks and placing one hand on their stomach, and the other on the bottom of their back. They are then told to inhale for three seconds before breathing out for seven seconds, all of the time holding in their stomach.

HOW IT WORKS

1) Fat is made up of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. When the oxygen we breathe reaches these fat molecules, it breaks them down into carbon dioxide and water. 

2) The blood then picks up the carbon dioxide - a waste product of our bodies - and returns it to the lungs to be exhaled. Therefore, the more oxygen our bodies use, the more fat we will burn.

3) The Long Breath Diet is believed to increase a dieter’s muscle strength and to boost their metabolism by increasing their blood oxygen levels.

OTHER POINT OF VIEWS

Professor Ian Macdonald, professor of metabolic physiology at the School of Biomedical Sciences in Derbyshire, warns breathing too deeply can do more harm than good. Inhaling and exhaling too deeply can disturb the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen in the body needed to neutralise the blood. This can cause light headedness and even make someone faint.

He also doubts simply breathing will turn fat into fuel. Contraction of muscles caused by exercise mobilises fat stores. But it is only vigorous aerobic sport that triggers enough energy to turn fat into fuel. Deep breathing alone will burn up fat by 2% at best.

You can read more in details and see the tutorial from the links below ↓

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Breath Diet

This Japanese Breathing Technique Will Help You Lose Stomach Fat Fast!

Long Breath Diet (Video)

I have tried it myself in addition to balance healthy diet and some simple workout that I had mention in my previous posts 'Simple Exercises to Lose Weight'. I do it three times a day and it does help. This breathing exercise will work differently according to your body. So I can't guarantee the success rate. You can just try it out and see for yourself. Just remember that there is no shortcuts to achieving your dream. Just keep trying and I promise you that you would not regret it because you have given your all. Once you start living healthy, you will get addicted to that type of lifestyle. That's the kind of lifestyle that I want to promote.

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