Breathe 360 Degrees Into Your Core | Plymouth Chiropractors
Channel: REACH Rehab + Chiropractic Performance Center
Date: 2018-09-01

➡️ Breathe 360 Degrees Into Your Core ⬅️⠀
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🔸WHAT IS THIS?🔸⠀
Part three of a five-part series about the importance and application of breathing's number two function: postural stability! Stay tuned all week for the complete series.⠀
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Here we learn how to maximize our ability to generate intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) by using a position helping us to drive pressure below the belt and into both sides of the spine, below the ribs. This is where the primary benefits come into play as the lowdown and backside pressure is a crucial stabilization mechanism for the low back and pelvis.⠀
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🔸WHEN SHOULD I USE IT?🔸⠀
For a few minutes 1-2x/day once you've learned how to initiate your breath from your diaphragm. Check out the previous video (# 62) if you haven't already. ⠀
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This sets you up for success regarding exercises of greater demand. The greater the demand, the harder it is to perform this function. It would be awesome if we could teach you how to breathe during a demanding exercise right off the bat, but if you can't use the diaphragm adequately laying down, you're not doing it under heavy load! This is like learning your multiplication tables before you dive into algebra! #math ⠀
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If you nail this drill with no issues at all, don't waste your time -- move on to the next video of the series! (on to algebra 😜)⠀
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🔸WHY SHOULD I CARE?🔸⠀
Breathing works to not only keep us alive via respiration but it has a crucial secondary component of postural stability.⠀
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Breathing creates IAP to stabilize the "links of the spinal chain" via activation of the diaphragm. Like the biceps muscles, the diaphragm contracts like any other muscle. When it contracts the dome-shaped muscle flattens and drops into the abdomen like a piston in a cylinder head (engine) -- this with co-contraction of the back, abdominal wall, and pelvic floor muscles working together, in concert, create the abdominal "balloon." The balloon inflating is what pushes the weight toward the ceiling when you breathe in.⠀
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Why not just squeeze your abs? Breathing with an abdominal brace maximizes your ability to generate IAP, which is essential for performance gains without the injury woes where "abs" does.

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