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.

Powerbreathe Week 4 after a hiatus.

Unfortunately we did not keep up with our progress over the last 2 weeks because of moving back to the UK.
Laura is in Belfast now and cannot do her Powerbreathe because I have it with me. She will recommence when i next see her in a couple of weeks.  I am going to start again today.  I have just taken some more readings of how long I can sustain various notes pianissimo on an 'i' vowel, and the results are very similar to the most recent ones.   The figures in brackets are a reminder of the results before starting this challenge. The lowest note is the A below middle C ( I am a counter-tenor).

A           25.13s                                      ( 20s)
C             27.63s                                       (18.67s)
E              24.23s                                       (17.67s)
G              21.28s                                       (16s)
C               11.43s                                       (8s)

I am pleased to see that after 2 weeks of not doing the exercises, I have mantained what is still a marked improvement over the first results which I took before using Powerbreathe.   Recently singing in a wedding in Normandy on the way back from Sicily, after not singing in public for a while, it was noticeable to me that I could sing longer phrases in some early choral polyphony, with fewer breaths.  Let us see whether I can improve on these results over the next few days.

Delays in posting because of Relocation to UK

Hey everyone,  sorry we haven't been keeping you updates with our progress. we have just spent the last 2 weeks driving through Europe from Sicily to England and hope to get back into our projects very soon. Will keep you updated.