The Japanese Breathing Technique: The Long-Breath Diet
Trying to buy the purest, most organic
ingredients, signing up for the gym, and purchasing new fitness
accessories can cost a lot of money. It’s lucky for you that we are here
to share with you a brilliant free way to lose weight, using only the
right breathing technique.
The long-breath diet was discovered by
Japanese actor Miki Ryosuke, who used his accidental exercise to lose 28
lbs. (and 5 inches around the waist!) in a mere 50 days. Ryosuke was
practicing some breathing exercises to provide pain relief as he
recovered from a recent back injury, when he discovered he could lose
weight quickly by spending only two to five minutes per day taking long,
deep breaths and exhaling while contracting all the body’s muscles.
The long breath diet can be done in two simple ways. Here we’ll take you
step by step through what you need to do to master it.
Long Breath Diet Technique 1
Long Breath Diet Technique 1
Tighten your buttocks and, at the same
time, place one foot in front of your body, expending 90% of your body
weight on your back foot. Standing in this position, inhale for a count
of three seconds while lifting your arms above your head. Then, when you
exhale, your body’s muscles will be forced to contract while the air is
being let out (for seven seconds).
Repeat this process for between two and
five minutes every day to see the best results.
Long Breath Diet Technique 2
This time, stand upright and tighten your buttocks. Place a hand upon
your abdomen and another hand on your lower back. While sucking in your
midsection, inhale for three seconds. Then for seven seconds exhale,
while continuing to suck in your stomach for seven seconds.
Repeat this exercise for between two and
five minutes a day to see the best results.
Deep Breathing and Weight Loss
If you’re sitting there wondering whether there is any way at all that
breathing can help you lose weight, you’re far from alone. Yet, as
Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP explains, there is much good that breathing can
do to help while dieting. Even if you only use Ryosuke’s technique as
part of a wider exercise regimen “deep breathing enhances the benefits.”
This is because breathing fills the body with the oxygen that’s
necessary for the body to absorb nutrients and remove toxins, both of
which aid and lead to weight loss.
Study Supports Deep Breathing Claims
A study conducted at Hampton University,
Virginia, revealed that a combination of yoga and deep breathing
exercises aided teens losing weight. The study divided 60 boys and girls
into two groups. The first undertook 40 minutes of yoga and deep
breathing (pranayama), four times a week for 12 weeks. The second group
did none of this. At the end of the trial, the first group had lost and
average of 6 lbs. without any change in their diets.
The study’s author, Anand B. Shetty, concludes with the following
advice: “I recommend 30 minutes of pranayama and yoga, three to four
times a week. This can easily be incorporated at home during leisure
time.”
How Breathing Helps Break Down Fat
Furthermore, Jill Johnson, the creator of Oxycise, claims that “the more
oxygen our bodies use, the more fat we will burn.” This is because fat
is made up of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. When oxygen is breathed in
it reaches the fat molecules and breaks them down into carbon dioxide
and water. Then, as the blood picks up the carbon dioxide it sends it to
the lungs to be breathed out.
The combination of good regular exercise and deep breathing can
therefore safely be relied upon to lead to significant weight loss.