The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is a hand-held, drug-free breathing device for Expiratory Muscle Training (EMT). It is light and easy to use and exercises your expiratory muscles to enhance your expiratory muscle structure and function. By using it daily, you will improve your expiratory muscle strength and endurance.
It exercises your expiratory muscles at an intermediate level to improve your expiratory muscle strength and endurance.
Amateur athletes to optimize their breathing technique, sports performance, and recovery.
Wind musicians to improve breath support and control.
Singers to improve breath management for longer air supply, greater stability, and agility.
Features:
This ‘medium’ resistance calibrated spring offers adjustable load training at a ‘medium’ intensity.
A comfortable mouthpiece provides a tight seal around your lips thanks to the bite tabs and outer flange.
The 0 – 10 training levels provide precise adjustment of expiratory load.
The ergonomic design means that there’s no chance of accidentally obstructing the airflow and the device is held comfortably in the vertical position.
Its design also makes it easy to clean and keep hygienic.
What Is Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST)?
Whereas POWERbreathe Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) trains your inspiratory muscles to become stronger, Expiratory muscle training (EMT) targets your expiratory muscles to become stronger. EMT exercises your expiratory muscles, including your abdominals. Your expiratory muscles are the ones you use when you forcefully breathe out, such as coughing, during extreme exercise, singing or when playing a wind instrument. The stronger they are, the more endurance they will have.
Additional information
Weight
1 kg
Who Is Expiratory Muscle Training For?
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is designed to improve the strength and endurance of your expiratory muscles.
Your expiratory muscles play an active role in breathing, particularly during extreme exercise and sports training. This is because your abdominal muscles are expiratory. Stronger expiratory muscles and abdominal muscles help to control your body when you run, twist and turn, such as in explosive power sports. Furthermore, with stronger expiratory muscles you are able to sustain a more prolonged physical effort, such as when competing. Finally, stronger muscles also help to prevent sports injuries.
Why the POWERbreathe EX1-MR is Beneficial For Sports People
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR is useful to sportspeople wishing to improve their sports performance. This is because maximal expiratory pressure (MEP) along with maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) provides an insight into the breathing muscle endurance of an athlete. A sportsperson is able to improve both these measures by using expiratory muscle strength training (for MEP) and inspiratory muscle training (for MIP).
Finally, your expiratory muscles also play a role in breathing control and the flow of breath in singers and wind musicians.
The POWERbreathe EX1-MR expiratory muscle training is beneficial to:
Athletes
Singers
Wind musicians
How Expiratory Muscle Training Works
POWERbreathe EMT devices use expiratory ‘pressure threshold’ loading to exercise your expiratory muscles. This is like weightlifting. The weight is provided by the internal, precisely calibrated ‘medium resistance’ spring which provides a breathing load to your expiratory muscles. Because the breathing loads are precisely calibrated, you can be confident that the intensity of your breathing training is quantifiable and appropriate.
The handle on the POWERbreathe EX1-MR features an adjustable dial. This is where you increase (or decrease) the resistance to your out-breath. It. is marked on training levels from 0 to 10, with 0 offering the least resistance and 10 the most.
The calibrated, spring-loaded valve requires you to produce an expiratory pressure (breath out) that is sufficient to overcome the breathing load you set. At this point, the valve then opens and you can hear a rushing of air as you exhale through the device. The valve will then close completely as soon as the pressure is less than the breathing load you set.
If, however, you do not produce enough expiratory force, the spring-loaded, pressure-threshold valve will remain closed, and no air will flow through the device. This means that the training level you have set (and therefore breathing load) is too much for your expiratory muscles at this point in your training. You can easily reduce the load slightly by turning the training level down on the handle.
How To Do Expiratory Muscle Training
When you generate enough power and force as you breathe out, the spring-loaded valve opens at the load you set using the training levels. This then allows you to breathe out through the device.
The typical training protocol for expiratory muscle training is 5 x 5 x 5 (5 x exhales, 5 times a day, for 5 days a week):
After taking an initial deep breath in, place the POWERbreathe EX1 EMT device in your mouth and maintain a tight lip seal around the mouthpiece.
Then, forcefully exhale through the device until the valve opens and you can hear the air rushing out. Repeat this 5 times. After each set, rest for 1 minute before attempting the next set.
Do this set of 5 exhalations, 5 times per day, and perform this training 5 days a week.
When you find your training becomes easier to perform, it means your expiratory muscles have become stronger and require more of a challenge. You can challenge them further by increasing the resistance using the adjustable dial on the handle. You can increase the training level by a full turn, but it might be better if you turn the dial a quarter-turn first to assess if this is enough of an increase in resistance.
POWERbreathe EMT devices use cmH2O as the unit of pressure. This is because it is what other, long-established devices use to determine lung health. It is the unit for measuring breathing on ventilators, CPAP and BiPAP machines, as well as, breathing training devices. By having the spring-loaded valve calibrated to increments of cmH2O, the adjustable load settings on the POWERbreathe EX1-MR EMT device mean that your training improvements are quantifiable. Having adjustable training levels also ensures that your expiratory muscles will always reach an appropriate training intensity for eliciting benefits, such as increasing your expiratory muscle strength and endurance.
Adjustable Dial
Although the POWERbreathe EX1-MR offers a ‘medium’ level of resistance to your expiratory muscles, the amount of resistance is still adjustable. It’s a bit like choosing a medium resistance band. You can still adjust the amount of resistance it offers by adapting it. For instance, you would leave it long and loose for less resistance or hold it shorter and tighter for more resistance.
To adjust your breathing load on your POWERbreathe EX1-MR and make the resistance lighter or heavier, you simply adjust the dial on the handle and choose a lower or higher training level. The device ges up to training level 10 which is the most resistance that the POWERbreathe EX1-MR provides.
The load is measured in centimeters of water (cmH2O) and is easily set on the device by using the marked training levels on the handle. Think of ‘load’ as weight lifted. So, the higher the load/weight (cmH2O), the harder it will be to exhale against the resistance and open the valve.
Adjustable Load Selection Range – cmH2O
EX1-Wellness
EX1-LR
EX1-MR
EX1-HR
Level 0
10
10
35
55
Level 1
17
17
49
72
Level 2
24
24
63
88
Level 3
31
31
77
105
Level 4
38
38
91
121
Level 5
45
45
105
138
Level 6
52
52
119
154
Level 7
59
59
133
171
Level 8
66
66
147
187
Level 9
73
73
161
204
Level 10
80
80
175
220
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What's In The Box?
The following items come as standard with every POWERbreathe EX1 EMT purchase:
POWERbreathe EX1 EMT device
Mouthpiece
Storage pouch
4 x Cleansing Tablets – except for in the USA. Genuine POWERbreathe devices will not contain POWERbreathe Cleansing Tablets in the USA, as these tablets are not approved for sale and/or distribution within the USA by the regulatory authorities. Read more about Counterfeit products.
Market specific user manual in the principle language of country where the device is purchased e.g. UK & Ireland – English; Spain – Spanish; Japan – Japanese.
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