Does Wim Hof Method Improve Breathing Economy during Exercise?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12410%2F22%3A43904553" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12410/22:43904553 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11510/22:10443518

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2218" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2218</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11082218" target="_blank" >10.3390/jcm11082218</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does Wim Hof Method Improve Breathing Economy during Exercise?

Original language description

(1) Background: Breathing economy during endurance sports plays a major role in performance. Poor breathing economy is mainly characterized by excessive breathing frequency (BF) and low tidal volume (V-T) due to shallow breathing. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a 4 week intervention based on the Wim Hof breathing method (WHBM) would improve breathing economy during exercise in adolescent runners. (2) Methods: 19 adolescent (16.6 +/- 1.53 years) middle- and long-distance runners (11 boys and 8 girls) participated in the study. Participants were randomly divided into experimental (n = 11) and control groups (n = 8). The study was set in the transition period between competitive race seasons and both groups had a similar training program in terms of running volume and intensity over the course of the study. The experimental group performed breathing exercises every day (similar to 20 min/day) for 4 weeks. The control group did not perform any kind of breathing exercise. The breathing exercises consisted of three sets of controlled hyperventilation and consecutive maximum breath holds. Before and after the intervention, participants performed incremental cycle ergometer testing sessions consisting of two minute stages at 1, 2, 3, and 4 W.kg(-1) with breath-by-breath metabolic analysis. During the testing sessions, BF, V-T, and minute ventilation (V-E) were assessed and compared. (3) Results: There were no statistically significant differences (p &gt; 0.05) in BF, V-T, or V-E between experimental and control groups before or after the intervention. A nonsignificant small-to-large effect for an increase in V-E and BF in both groups following the 4 week intervention period was observed, possibly due to a reduction in training volume and intensity owing to the down period between competitive seasons. (4) Conclusions: The 4 week intervention of WHBM did not appear to alter parameters of breathing economy during a maximal graded exercise test in adolescent runners.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF19_073%2F0016935" target="_blank" >EF19_073/0016935: Grant schemes at Charles University</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Clinical Medicine

ISSN

2077-0383

e-ISSN

2077-0383

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

000785312100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128406503