Buteyko Breathing

Improve your lung capacity and physical performance

My last piece advocates breathing only through your nose all day, but it’s not easy. When I’m climbing the 46 stairs it takes to get to my apartment, I lose my breath and have to open my mouth. That’s how breathing works, right? Well, maybe not. If I had bigger lung capacity — which is the ability of my lungs to efficiently extract oxygen from the air I breathe- I could shoot up…