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Breathletics USE YOUR BREATH AS A WEAPON 💨⚡️
Better breathing, better living, better performance. Transform your life with breathwork! in Kinesiology.

Join us on the journey to peak health and athletic excellence. Meet Mike Kolander, Founder of Breathletics

Mike Kolander’s journey in the fitness industry began in the summer of 1996 when he graduated from the University of Illinois/Chicago with a B.S. With over 35,000 clinical hours and numerous certifications in NASM, CrossFit, and Breathwork Facilitation, Mike brings unparalleled expertise to the Breathletics team. Throughout his career, Mike has worked with a diverse range of clients, including the Chicago Blackhawks, professional athletes, senior citizens, rehab patients, military personnel, travel sports teams, teachers, and stay-at-home moms. His personalized wellness prescriptions are tailored to meet and surpass each client’s unique goals safely and efficiently. As a Certified Advanced Instructor through the Oxygen Advantage and a Certified Breathe Instructor through The Breathing Class, Mike's passion for breathwork has transformed both his professional and personal life. He is dedicated to sharing the incredible benefits of breathwork, helping others improve their athletic performance, sleep quality, stress levels, and overall well-being. Join Mike and the Breathletics team to experience the life-changing power of breathwork! 🌬️✨

01/26/2026

Collagen keeps skin firm, joints strong, and tissues resilient.

Breathwork helps by:
• Increasing oxygen delivery to skin and connective tissue
• Improving circulation so collagen-building nutrients reach cells
• Lowering stress hormones that accelerate collagen breakdown

The key? Learn to slow down your breathing

Direction: Nasal inhale for3-4 seconds, exhale for 6-7 seconds. This allows you to take 6 breaths/min or fewer. What this does :
-“signals” your brain that you are safe
-sends your body into parasympathetic dominance, which has been proven to lower cortisol and increase collagen
-lowers blood pressure and HR

The result:
A body that’s calmer, better oxygenated, and more capable of maintaining healthy collagen. You can unlock the natural strength against your body aging with breathwork every day. bestlife

Breathe better. Build better

01/23/2026

The diaphragm is a muscle.

When you strengthen it — like blowing up balloons or using breath holds — you reduce lactic acid buildup, delay fatigue, and elevate athletic performance. Data shows that with repeated diaphragmatic training and daily breath holds, athletes can
⬆️elevate power output, endurance, VO2 max, better sleep, digestion, lactic acid metabolism and mental acuity
⬇️Stress levels, heart rate, blood pressure , brain fog,
and lactic acid build -up

The athlete who controls their breath controls who breaks first.

🔥This is Breathletics athlete Tucker “IHOP “ Glass, 8th grade bulldozer and Kentucky Player of the Year finalist - this kid just squatted 315 3x’s. Now he’s turning his breath into a weapon??? Attn:defensive linemen in Kentucky - goodnight 💤

01/15/2026

Why Holding Your Breath During Exercise Increases Performance

Holding your breath during effort locks in a stronger core brace, eliminates energy leaks, and allows maximum force output.
It trains the body to operate under high internal pressure and stress — exactly where performance breaks or levels up.

It also trains the body to become more resilient against lactic acid build-up and speeds up its removal as well. Basically the athlete can produce more force output with less energy loss.

Weak breath = weak output.

Controlled breath holds = power, stability, dominance.

Train it on purpose.

Breathletics - Turn your breath into a weapon

01/13/2026

After training is NOT the time to breathe hard.
It’s the time to downshift the nervous system so growth hormone can actually pulse.

Growth Hormone & Recovery

• Slow nasal breathing reduces sympathetic drive
• Parasympathetic dominance = better GH signaling + tissue repair
• You don’t create GH with breath — you allow the pulse to land.

Recovery isn’t oxygen. It’s carbon dioxide tolerance.

Longer exhales → higher CO₂ tolerance
• Better oxygen delivery (Bohr effect)
• Faster recovery between sessions, not just after

How you breathe in the 3 minutes after training affects how you sleep the night of your workout.

Slow exhale = vagal tone ↑
• HRV improves
• Sleep quality improves later that night

Every athlete should incorporate this into their daily training to maximize the time spent the spend the gym.

Learn how to turn your breath into a weapon with Breathletics, links in bio

01/11/2026

ATTN : COMPETITIVE GOLFERS

Do you want to keep your nerves under control, your blood pressure & heart rate low while driving more blood to your brain? Do 5 second breath holds before any / every shot. Here’s why.

When you hold your breath, CO2 builds up in your blood. CO2 is a vasodilator- it opens up all thousands and thousands of miles of blood vessels you have, allowing your heart to work easier due to the wider, more open blood vessels.

Also, and very importantly for any competitive athlete, it sends extra blood to your brain, giving you focus and clear concentration while removing all the fog and mental noise that goes with competition.

So before you have a bout with nerves before any shot or putt on the golf course , do 4 or 5 real quick 5 second breath holds (after an exhale).

**If you can pinch your nose and hold it, that’s a bonus. Nitric oxide pools in your nasal cavity when you pinch the nose, so when you nasally inhale after a breath hold, you not only get extra CO2 in your blood, you get extra nitric oxide as well. Nitric oxide acts as a vasodilator as well, helping you chill out by helping open the blood vessels, helping your heart to work easier.

In the video , Marcus L is overdoing the breath movements on purpose to show viewers the process more clearly. Don’t take huge breaths here, just a nasal inhale , normal exhale (nose or mouth) and hold..repeat 4-5xs and you will find yourself more calm and focused before any shot or putt, guaranteed.

Check out the Breathletics Golf Breathwork Certification to become an expert on turning your breath into a weapon on the golf course. After completion, you will know how to increase power, endurance , swing velocity (swing harder for the entire 18, not run out of gas on 15) as well as improving sleep, recovery, focus with some visualization thrown in.
Link to Golf Cert in bio

01/08/2026

Wanna launch your VO2 max thru the roof ?
Start doing explosive/ballistic exercises while you hold your breath.

How does it work ??

When you hold your breath and move, there is an extra hydrogen atom that can’t go thru the regular carbonic acid transfer and instead binds with pyruvic acid to form the enemy of the athlete, lactic acid. This happens much quicker when you hold your breath, but that’s the reason the body has the opportunity to become STRONGER against lactic acid and fatigue when it really matters.

The reason for doing this as a training mechanism?

In many team sports, you need to have the ability to repeatedly engage in repeated intervals of high intensity max effort exercise with small recovery periods. Breath hold training trains the body to adapt to the quick lactic acid build up due to the breath hold while executing the movement.

What this does is get the athlete performing at a higher level for longer during the actual game when they need quick explosive movements with small rest periods. When that happens, the athlete can withstand the build up of lactic acid for longer due to the body being overloaded up with lactic acid during training with breath holds….thus giving the athlete who does breath hold training a distinct advantage over their opponent when it really matters.

Getting after it with Evans D

01/08/2026

Excited to announce that Breathletics has a new and improved home base!! We are now in Vernon Hills - thanks so much to and for having all of us as new members of the fam…..These guys do it right and the facility is second to none

01/05/2026

You don’t need another swing coach. You need more oxygen to your muscles.

This is not Mindset.

This is not Meditation.

This is a course that is GUARANTEED to give you more:

*Swing power and speed
*Better Recovery
*More swing velocity - so you swing harder later in the round
*Unshakable nerves

2 Saturdays
$159
75 minutes.

Turn your breath into a weapon
Link for spots in bio

01/05/2026

Thank you to everyone for making 2025 the best year Breathletics has ever had !!! May 2026 be even better to all of you , one breath at a time….

01/04/2026

Congrats to Greg Barker for finishing the Breathletics Golf Breathwork Certification (I shoulda signed it before I gave it to him !! 🫢)
Any competitive youth golfers looking to up their game, Greg is the best in the Chicago area for golf-specific strength development …..

12/20/2025

Getting in some breath mask work in southern Cali over the holidays …..

When you make it harder to breathe , your diaphragm - which is a muscle - gets a workout. When you train it like a muscle (i.e.with resistance) it gets stronger. Why is that important??

You can be all full of muscles and explosion, but if you aren’t breathing right all of that doesn’t matter. Mouth breathing? Less oxygen to all those muscles. Shoulder breathing with no diaphragm? Less blood in your extremities, which means your arms and legs lose energy. Kind of hard to perform at an elite level when your arms and legs are strugglin….

Any and every athlete should be training the diaphragm just like the quads or pipes…..A few ways is with a mask like this (which has a small opening , making it herder to breathe) or pursed lip breathing or “straw” breathing (breathe in and out thru a very small mouth opening, making the diaphragm push and pull harder).

Two athletes , 6’3” 240lbs, same strength and speed - but the athlete with a stronger diaphragm will finish on top 99% of the time…..

Breathletics utilizes scientifically proven breathwork techniques to manipulate blood chemistry, giving you proven results that will improve your athletic performance physically and mentally no matter what sport you play….

Learn how to turn your breath into a weapon
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