Breathing is easy. Inhale, exhale, rinse, and repeat until you die. Mindful breathing, however—like the kind that’s been proven to reduce stress, depression and anxiety—is hard. You focus on your ...

We’ve all been there. Stressed out, tired, or struggling to catch our breath during a new fitness class. So, what if we told ...

The new intervention improved respiratory health and fitness levels of people with long COVID by training the muscles that you use to breath. Training the breathing muscles strengthens them just like ...

Breathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart rate by activating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, sending signals to and from ...

A small handheld breathing exercise device, usually used by athletes, helped to reduce breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people recovering from COVID-19, according to research presented ...

Exercise is great for your health, strength, and quality of life. But if you have chronic lung disease, symptoms like shortness of breath may make you afraid to work out. Lung disease can interrupt ...

Strength training is a well-established way to boost the capabilities of the body's many muscle groups, and the same may well be true of those that facilitate breathing. A new study has provided the ...

Taking a deep breath can help assuage anxiety, calm your heart rate, and even lower blood pressure (BP). In fact, Daniel Harrison Craighead, Ph.D., an assistant research professor of integrative ...

A recent analysis, evaluating an intervention in which patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) used a wearable device to help monitor exercise post-surgery, found that participants reported ...

A randomized, controlled, experimental study found that a breathing exercise decreased fatigue and daytime sleepiness at the end of the fourth and eighth weeks of an intervention in patients with ...