I was flipping through a running magazine and found a advertisment for this device called Powerlung. It supposedly 'helps increase your capacity to use oxygen entering and exiting your lungs'. Anyone have any information on this product?
I was flipping through a running magazine and found a advertisment for this device called Powerlung. It supposedly 'helps increase your capacity to use oxygen entering and exiting your lungs'. Anyone have any information on this product?
Preliminary studies say it helps with lung strength. Mainly it can help your tidal volume. I talked to a rep and they have 12 week study coming out that is supposedly going to be promising.
The muscles that control breathing can get very tired when running, particularly in a marathon. At my first marathon, there was a doctor from Yale who was measuring muscle strength before and after the marathon as it related to breathing. You forcably exhaled through a tube and it was recored. After the race, I repeated the forced exhalation and was amazed at how much I had lost; despite the fact that I had only run hard enough to qualify for Boston and wasn't flat out. All the participants in the study were promised a copy of the report, but that didn't happen.
I would like to see a study on this devise, with the appropriate controls, that would measure its effectiveness after a long run. It would seem that the appropriate weight lifting exercises would be effective if there was a muscle fatigue problem that effected endurance.
I ordered this from eBay. Here is their web page.
Wonder if something like this would be helpful during injury downtime?
has anybody actually used this for awhile? any improvements? looks sketchy to me, but my lungs could use some help. asthma sucks.
This device has nothing to do with the lungs. It has to do with the muscles that are used when breathing. So, it won't help someone with asthma. It won't increase your lung function. The manufacturer makes claims that it will improve the muscles that are used for breathing adn does not make claim relating to lung function. Even with improve muscles strength/endurance, it might not help you run faster. The limiting factor when breathing is the amount of oxygen you can pull out of your lungs, not whether the muscles are tired. The rest of your body is probably more tired, and you can still run. When someone who uses this devise starts beating Kenyons, then I will buy it.
I think this post is a scam set up by the makers of this product to sell it, i think all the other posts are fake too or maybe it's just me.
Sounds like a scam. What they really need is some kind of Power Turd that would let you pinch one in a pinch - you know 10 minutes before a race or something. That would be impressive.
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