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Scientifically proven breathing technique to reduce breathlessness, simulate high altitude training, Find out more at www.oxygenadvantage.com

The Oxygen Advantage Breathing Technique by Patrick McKeown

The Oxygen Advantage improves sports performance:

1. By understanding how oxygen is released throughout the body, and improving everyday breathing habits so that body oxygenation becomes more efficient

2. By practicing specially designed breath hold exercises which provide the same benefits as high altitude training

Both methods work by increasing the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to your working muscles and heart during exercise, allowing you to become healthier, faster, fitter and stronger. The Oxygen Advantage technique provides step by step detail to enable you:

-Increase your natural production of EPO safely and legally
-Improve your VO2 max and sports performance
-Reduce your breathlessness during physical exercise
-Improve delivery of oxygen to organs and working muscles
-Prevent exercise induced asthma
-Reduce inflammation and the risk of injury
-Help maintain fitness during rest or injury

For the past eleven years, Patrick McKeown has trained over 5,000 people in reduced breathing exercises. From seriously ill asthmatics to couch potatoes to weekend warriors and Olympic athletes—Patrick teaches a simple, fast way to transform health, well-being, and performance. The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick's latest and most complete book, is based on research supported by over 230 medical papers and studies published in prominent scientific journals. For the first time, this information is being published outside academic journals and made accessible to the public. The Oxygen Advantage allows those who previously avoided exercise due to excessive breathlessness, asthma, or other health and respiratory issues, to become the athletes they’ve always wanted to become. Equally, for the first time, individuals who don’t regularly exercise can use reduced breathing techniques to improve their fitness level substantially before they even set foot on a track, or walk into a gym. The health benefits of reduced breathing for exercisers and for non-exercisers includes better sleep, improved cardiovascular health, increased energy and concentration, easy weight loss and weight maintenance, and the elimination of asthmatic symptoms. The Oxygen Advantage book includes both detailed and simplified descriptions of each exercise, quick reference guides and summaries, case studies, and the science behind the information to enable the reader to fully understand and apply the Oxygen Advantage program.

19/11/2025

Join our 5K Nasal Breathing Run, a challenge designed to revolutionise your running experience. Whether you’re a casual jogger or a serious competitor, nasal breathing can enhance endurance, efficiency, and recovery all while improving your breathing.

Why nasal breathing?
✅ Strengthens breathing muscles for better posture and core stability
✅ Boosts oxygen delivery to the brain and muscles
✅ Reduces airway irritation and conserves moisture
✅ Trains your body to perform with less effort—leading to better endurance

Expect an adaptation phase, but stick with it! The benefits are long-lasting, and once your body adjusts, running will feel smoother and more sustainable than ever.

To support you, we’re providing:
🔹 A community Facebook group for motivation and insights
🔹 Weekly emails with tips and guidance
🔹 A science-backed approach—learn more in our research articles!

📌 Sign up for the 5K Nasal Breathing Challenge here or in bio: https://oxygenadvantage.com/nasal-running-challenge/

18/11/2025

Great to see breathwork gaining more visibility at the top level of sport. A recent BBC Sport article highlights England Rugby’s evolving strategy—leveraging bench strength, smart substitutions, and breath control to maintain intensity late into the game.

England’s Sam Underhill told Rugby Union Weekly: “For a lot of guys, breathwork’s important when you get breaks in play and you want to get your mental clarity as quickly as possible. You want to get your heart rate down and thinking clearly.”

This isn’t just about staying calm. Breathwork helps maintain decision-making under fatigue, regulates heart rate, and supports recovery between high-intensity efforts.

From the All Blacks to Ireland, and England to clubs and teams around the world—more athletes and coaches are tapping into the science of breathing for faster recovery, improved repeated sprint ability, and enhanced focus.

OA instructors are already working with teams globally, applying science-based breathing protocols that train both body and mind.

Techniques like recovery breathing between plays stimulate the vagus nerve, lower sympathetic load, and restore cognitive sharpness—exactly what’s needed when outcomes depend on clear heads and fast feet in the final minutes.

Training methods such as voluntary hypoventilation at low lung volume are already shown to significantly improve repeated sprint performance in rugby players. The research backs it. The results speak for themselves.

Breathwork isn’t the next big thing in elite sport. It’s already here.

17/11/2025

Great to have Tommy Conroy (Mayo GAA) join us for our recent OA Advanced Training in Galway — integrating Oxygen Advantage® into both football and everyday life.

This is mind-body-sport training.
Better breathing. Better focus. Better recovery. Better performance.

📍 Next in-person training with Patrick McKeown
🗓️ February 5–7, 2026 | Galway

15/11/2025

“Just take a deep breath.”
We hear it all the time.
But what if most of our breathing is too much, too fast, too disconnected?

Breathing isn’t about how much air you move,
It’s about how well you use it.

Breath isn’t just relaxation.
It’s performance.
It’s recovery.
It’s sleep.
It’s mental clarity.

Every training session is an opportunity:
To train your breath.
To train your brain.
To build real resilience.

When you breathe through your mouth during exercise, you’re losing efficiency.
You’re breathing in air and blowing opportunity straight back out.

✅ Train with your mouth closed
✅ Breathe light, slow, and deep
✅ Use nasal breathing to improve oxygen efficiency
✅ Let every session train body, brain, and breath

Because real training starts at the nervous system.
Start breathing how your body was designed to.

13/11/2025

What Makes a Great Breathing Coach?
Hint: It’s more than one breathing exercise.

If you're teaching breathwork (or thinking about it) here’s a question to sit with:

Are you helping someone feel calm for a moment…
…or helping them transform their breathing patterns for life?

That’s the difference between a relaxation technique and true breath coaching.

A Real Coach Knows:
- How to assess breathing patterns
- Which tools to use (rate, volume, nasal vs mouth, breath holds, diaphragm work)
- How to adapt when clients hit roadblocks
- And how to track meaningful progress

Why would you do a breathing program unless it improves your breathing patterns?

Breathing influences sleep, focus, blood flow, oxygen delivery and more.
When you train it well, it becomes one of the most powerful levers for health and performance.

Functional breathing isn’t just calming.
It’s transformational.

12/11/2025

Is Overbreathing Really a Thing?
Yes. And it could be holding back your health, performance, and mental clarity.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that deep, full breaths are always better.
But here's the truth: most people breathe too much, not too little.

What is overbreathing?
It's when you breathe more air than your body needs, often through the mouth, into the upper chest, with little to no pause between breaths.
You may not even notice it. But your body does.

❌ More air in doesn’t mean more oxygen delivered.
When you overbreathe, carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels drop and that’s a problem.
Why? Because CO₂ is essential for oxygen delivery. It’s the key to unlocking oxygen from hemoglobin so it can reach your cells.

This is called the Bohr Effect.
Lower CO₂ = tighter oxygen binding = less oxygen for muscles, brain, and organs.

⚠️ Signs of chronic overbreathing include:
- Frequent sighing or yawning
- Mouth breathing
- Poor concentration
- Cold hands/feet
- Sleep issues
- Anxiety

✅ Breathe less to do more.
With Oxygen Advantage® training, you learn to:
- Reduce breathing volume
- Tolerate higher CO₂
- Improve oxygen delivery
- Perform better with less effort

Breathing isn’t just automatic...it’s trainable.
When you change how you breathe, you change everything.

10/11/2025

Fatigue isn’t just in your head, it’s in your muscles.

When you push your body, hydrogen ions (H⁺) build up inside your muscles. This drop in pH (called metabolic acidosis) limits muscle contraction and accelerates fatigue. The faster it happens, the sooner you hit your limits.

But what if your body could handle more acidity... and keep going?

🔑 Breath-hold training is the game-changer.

By holding your breath after an exhalation, oxygen drops and carbon dioxide rises. This creates a temporary, controlled state of low oxygen and high acidity—just like during intense exercise or altitude training. The result? Powerful physical adaptations:

✅ Greater muscle tolerance to acid
✅ Stronger buffering capacity
✅ Slower lactic acid build-up
✅ Improved anaerobic and aerobic endurance

Even if you're sidelined with injury, breath-hold training helps maintain your BOLT and MBT scores, keeping your edge while you recover.

💥 Breath-holding shifts the fatigue curve, allowing you to go longer, faster, and harder.

Train your breath. Change your limits.

05/11/2025

If your tongue’s out while training, you’re losing more than style points 😉
Keep it on the roof of your mouth — your airway (and performance) will thank you.

Your tongue does far more than help you speak or taste — it helps you breathe efficiently, sleep deeper, and even move better.

When your tongue rests in the correct position —
👉 Tip just behind the top teeth
👉 Rest gently pressed against the roof of the mouth
👉 Lips closed, teeth slightly apart —
you’re setting up your airway for success.

This simple posture supports:
✔︎ Nasal breathing – improving oxygen uptake, CO₂ balance, and nitric oxide production
✔︎ A wider, more stable airway – reducing snoring, breathlessness, and sleep-disordered breathing
✔︎ Efficient swallowing & clear speech
✔︎ Balanced jaw and facial development (especially in kids)
✔︎ Better head, neck & spinal alignment – supporting efficient movement and posture.

When the tongue drops (as it does during mouth breathing), the airway narrows — making it harder to maintain steady breathing during exercise or sleep.

The good news? Breathing and tongue posture are learned behaviors — they can be retrained.

💡 Keep your lips closed and teeth gently apart
💡 Rest your tongue on the roof of your mouth
💡 Breathe through your nose — in training, recovery, and rest

Small habit. Major impact.

03/11/2025

WHAT TYPE OF BREATHING EXERCISE IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Breathing is powerful — but with so many techniques out there, it can be hard to know where to start.Should you slow it down? Build CO₂ tolerance? Work on diaphragm strength? Or focus on relaxation?

HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT TECHNIQUE
Ask yourself:
✔️ Biochemical: What’s happening to my CO₂ levels?
✔️ Biomechanical: Am I using my diaphragm and breathing efficiently?
✔️ Psychophysiological: Is this helping me regulate my state?

FOR INSTRUCTORS
Every breathing technique works differently. Understanding these three dimensions helps you tailor breathwork to your clients’ needs — whether it’s recovery, performance, or emotional balance.

When you understand the science, your breathing becomes more than a technique — it becomes a tool for life.

✨ Learn more: www.oxygenadvantage.com

31/10/2025

We had the privilege of welcoming Mayo GAA senior footballer Tommy Conroy to our Advanced Instructor Training this month! 🏐
Find out how he got on 👇

In his review, Tommy — a Mayo Senior Team footballer and maths teacher — shares his journey with the Oxygen Advantage. After discovering Patrick McKeown’s book The Oxygen Advantage, he began practicing breathwork a year ago and was inspired to take things further by enrolling in the Advanced Instructor course.

Tommy describes the training as highly interesting and beneficial, noting how the Oxygen Advantage techniques have given him simple, effective tools to enhance his performance both on and off the field. These strategies have improved his overall well-being and daily breathing efficiency — helping him perform, recover, and feel better in everyday life.

💬 Key takeaway:
Tommy recommends the Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor course to anyone looking to improve their physical performance and everyday health through simple yet powerful breathing techniques.

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