Breathing Basics

FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT RESOURCES

This video is short by mighty because goes through a pretty complicated (internal) process of breathing, in a fairly simple way. The idea right now, is to understand that how we breathe, impacts our entire torso — how it moves, how it feels, and how the muscles respond to a simple act that we often don’t even think about.

One of my favorite analogies of the movement of the thoracic cage, is a bell swinging in the air. Picture this: as you inhale, the front of the bell swings up, while the back of the bell drop down, and on the exhale the front of the bell swings down as the back of the bell slightly lift up.