Breathing exercises.

For the last several weeks I've been a subject in a physiology study run by Dave. As part of the study I have to do breathing exercises almost every day. Since this is the last week of these exercises I thought that I would make my "Respiratory Muscle Training Log" (RMTL) my webpage feature for the week.

Overall effort: 1-5, where 1 is "poor" and 5 is "awesome".

End fatigue: 1-5, where 1 is "no problem" and 5 is "totally pooped".

Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999
Exercise Time Length Effort Fatigue Comments
Hyperventilation 11:30 PM 30 minutes 3 2.5 I didn't do too good. I had a few interruptions, plus I couldn't breate too hard because I was typing this page up while I was doing it. I think it was still a good workout, though.
Resistance 12:30 AM 45 breaths 4 3.5 Somewhat harder than last week's setting.
Other:
Tempo roller ride		 7:00 PM 35 minutes 2 1.5 Today was an easy day.
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999
Exercise Time Length Effort Fatigue Comments
Hyperventilation 11:30 PM 10 minutes 4 2.5 For some reason my lungs were all clogged up. I kept coughing and just gave up after 10 minutes. I hope I'm not getting a cold.
Resistance
Other:
Roller sprint workout		 10:00 PM 50 minutes 4 3
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999
Exercise Time Length Effort Fatigue Comments
Hyperventilation 1:30 AM 30 minutes 4 3 No coughing today.
Resistance 2:15 AM 45 breaths 3 3 I had a pretty hard time with these. Maybe I was just too tired. I couldn't inhale very much.
Other:
Weights at the SERF		 2:00 PM 1 hour 4 4 Moved up in just about everything.
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Exercise Time Length Effort Fatigue Comments
Hyperventilation
Resistance 3:00 AM 65 breaths 4 4 Piece o' cake. I made sure to blow out all my air and didn't have much trouble at all. I'm not sure exactly how many I did as I lost count a couple of times.
Other:
LT intervals on rollers		 10:00 PM 1.5 hours 4.5 4.5 Ouch! That was really tough. This was the first time this year that I made my lungs hurt in a bike workout.
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999
Exercise Time Length Effort Fatigue Comments
Hyperventilation 1:20 AM 30 minutes 3 3 I just didn't have much breathing energy today.
Resistance 2:30 AM 55 breaths 3.5 3.5 I wasn't as strong of a breather as yesterday. I still did extra breaths, though.
Other:
Weights at the serf		 2:00 PM 1 hour 4.5 4 The end of a 4 week squat interval cycle. Pretty difficult.