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Monday, 12 September 2011

Powerbreathe Challenge Week 5

Just took another set of readings and am quite excited! It's 9 days since the last post and there have been more definite improvements for me.  Laura is very much looking to catching up where she left off when I meet up with her again.  I haven't managed to do the exercises twice every day, but I have managed at least one set of 30 breaths everyday.  I thought perhaps I wouldn't see as much improvement as I would have liked. But I got a clue to my developing breath control while singing for a wedding in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Saturday. My ability to sustain long phrases is definitely better. 
Anyway, here are my readings from a few moments ago followed by my original readings from around 5 weeks ago for comparison.

A                28.97s                                                      20s

C                31.35s                                                      18.67s

E                 29.48s                                                      17.67s

G                 26.1s                                                        16s

C                 14.1s                                                         8s

From a quick glance this looks like an improvement of more than 50 per cent since I started which is pretty staggering.   I have been using the level 3 setting on the Powerbreathe until today, but tomorrow I will start on level 4 because it currently feels easier to do the exercises on the current level than when I started on level 0.
I'll keep you posted.

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