Belisa VranichRecensioni

Dr. Belisa Vranich, a clinical psychologist and fitness expert, introduced a daily workout, that helped our bodies relearn the proper way to inhale and exhale in her groundbreaking book, Breathe. Now, with award-winning author Brian Sabin, she continues her breathwork revolution and takes us to the next level of performance with the powerful science and techniques of Breathing for Warriors.

Whether you are a professional athlete, a first responder, or someone whose occupation requires physical skills and stamina, Dr. Vranich's series of exercises-which restores and reinforces how we're actually supposed to breathe-will teach you how to keep your body, and your mind, in prime condition.

Featuring information and advice from scientists, medical experts, martial artists, sports celebrities, elite military soldiers, and top-tier personal trainers, Breathing for Warriors shows you how to rediscover your diaphragm through practices that bring a greater flow of oxygen-rich air into your bodiy. These exercises, combined with meditation, stretches, and strength activities, help improve your endurance and focus, empowering you to engage in more physically demanding tasks and recover from them faster. When you breathe well, you are better equipped to reduce stess, build resilience, think clearer, detox, and much more.

With photographs, illustrating step-by-step instructions, Dr. Vranich's routines will help optimize your performance and improve your endurance, strength, precison, and recovery.

'A treasure of information on how to get the most out of your mind and body. It all startswith breathing!'-Bas Rutten, UFC Heavyweight Champion

'Finally, there is a guide on breathing to enhance injury resilience and performance. Sabin and Vranich have created an utterly engrossing read, founded in science and buttressed with real-world validity and application tips for the strength athlete and the endurance athlete alike.'-Stu McGill, Ph.D., professor emeritus of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Belisa Vranich is a clinical psychologist and fitness expert who teaches breathing exercises to athletes, first responders, and law enforcement.

Brian Sabin is an award-winning writer and consultant. His work has appeared on VICE, and in Men's Journal and Runner's World magazines, among other pubications. He is a lifelong athlete and a former asthmatic-turned-Boston Marathon qualifier.

Contents

A note of caution to the reader
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Breathing fire: A new paradigm for better performance
2 Choose your athletic superpower
3 How modern living took our breath away
4 The breathing IQ: Are you breathing intelligently?
5 How to breathe better: Fundamentals
6 Game changer: Learning the 360-degree breath
7 Posture and pelvic floor: How to not end up in adult diapers
8 Breathing for endurnce: How to run faster (and have it feel easier)
9 Getting stronger, going longer: Exercises to improve endurance
10 Sea, land, and air(dyne): Applied techniques for rowing, swimming, and biking
11 Breathing for strength: Discover your inner Anaconda
12 Mastering tension for maximum muscle
13 Applied strength: How to breathe during the major lifts
14 Breathing for precison: Learning the fine art of lethal accuracy
15 Applied precision: Finding (and extending) 'The sweet spot' in golf, shooting, archery, and pool
16 Breathing for recovery: Techniques to come back faster and stronger
17 Between your ears: Breathing techniques to master your inner game
Bibliography
Illustration captions with text from the Anatomy of Breathing by Blandine Calais
Index

I highly doubt that the techniques in this book will completely fix all of my health problems as the author suggests. That being said, I do believe that many of these exercises will be helpful in my struggles with anxiety and migraine issues. only time will tell, but I do feel good about what I've learned

Breathing is good.

Updated review:
Dr. Vranich makes a convincing case that the way you breathe has a huge impact on your health, well-being, and even athletic performance. Having a backing of research studies helps solidify some of the arguments presented here. However, after reading The Oxygen Advantage, I do feel that some of the principles in this book don't quite hold up to the light of scientific scrutiny. She dismisses the evidence that high altitude training can be beneficial for performance and seems to have longevity effects. The Bohr Effect (the importance of carbon dioxide in the body) is not noted at all either, and this seems a crucial oversight.

That said, the main message here -- you should breathe from the belly/diaphragm, and through your nose -- is on point. For a more advanced look at the relevant science, and particularly for athletes looking to optimize performance, I'd recommend The Oxygen Advantage instead, though.½

Everyone should read this book! It explains how our breathing changes throughout our lives due to stress, trauma and anxiety and how we start to hold our bellies tight and breathe up in our chest area. That type of breathing doesn’t allow your body enough oxygen and can lead to many different types of health problems, including heart problems, insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, obesity, GI tract difficulties and even memory problems. This is a 14-day program that will re-teach your body to breathe as you did when you were a child, using the diaphragm instead of chest muscles.

I’ve become more aware of my breathing since starting up yoga practice once again a few months ago. I found this book to be so helpful in re-training my body to breathe the way I should be breathing. I’ve only be using the book a few days and already feel the expansion in my ribs and lungs. The muscles in my back are a bit sore due to the increased use of those particular muscles that haven’t been used in many years due to the short, shallow, upper body breaths I’ve been taking.

The book includes simple, quick exercises that you can use to strengthen those muscles used in breathing to give you increase your lung capacity. I thought the beginning of the book read like an infomercial and was a bit repetitive. But stick with it as when the author gets to the exercises, they are excellent. Quite a few of them I’ve been using in my yoga practice so were familiar to me. There’s also an excellent section for athletes. The book is very easy to read and understand.

I’ve always been an admirer of Dr. Andrew Weil and there’s a quote by him included in the book that I’d like to share. “If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn to breathe correctly.”

Here’s to better breathing for all! Highly recommended book.

This book was given to me by the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review.

know when to hold 'em, know when to walk away
7.11

Dating the Older Man: Consider Your Differences and Decide if He’s Right for You by Belisa Vranich and Laura Grashow is a guide for women either considering or already dating an older man. At least that’s the marketing. In fact the subtitle more accurately reflects the book: Consider your differences and decide if he’s right for you. Period.

Before you read further, let’s clear something up: This book is not about how to GET an older man. It is about what to DO when you find yourself considering or actually dating an older man and you’re not sure how that happened or whether you want to pursue the relationship. It’s about looking at the issues (which you may or may not have considered) and deciding whether this is a good match for you. And it’s about doing this thinking earlier rather than later so you don’t waste time with someone who isn’t going to be a good partner for you.

This book is much more widely applicable than the title would suggest. It is foremost about developing a mature and lasting relationship with a romantic partner (age difference is the angle, but the advice is pretty universally applicable).

Dating the Older Man is aimed at women who want a real relationship, not those who want the Sugar Daddy or the Father Figure or whatever other stereotypes there are floating around about the older man. The tone is conversational with occasional humour, but it is intent on providing information and insight. Much of the book applies to any woman dating any man and looking for a lasting relationship: make sure he respects you, make sure you are forging an equal partnership, make sure you disagree productively, don’t sabotage yourself, etc.

There are some issues that are particular to relationships with older men such as ex-wives, children (possibly grown), disapproval of friends and family, different priorities. Basically, the older your dating partner is (and the older you are, I would add), the more “stuff” (psychological or physical) you bring into the relationship. Although the advice uses the younger woman-older man scenario as examples, it can be adapted to other differences that cause friends and family to frown.

Dating the Older Man is something that I would have found useful if it had been available back then, and I recommend it to anyone who is trying to establish a long term relationship with an older man (or any man). It is a respectful and considered book on a topic that is often sensationalized and stereotyped.

You can read more of my reviews at Booklorn.com.

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4.6
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3.95
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