ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Sports Performance and Breathing Rate: What Is the Connection? A Narrative Review on Breathing Strategies.
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- Slow paced breathing and power posing: a pre-competitive ritual during an American football season.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Prolonging the Warm-Up Effect by Using Additional Respiratory Dead Space Volume After the Cessation of Warm-Up Exercise.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of the SmartACT Intervention on Motor and Psychological Variables in Adolescent Athletes: A Controlled Trial Using BlazePod and Microgate.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Optimizing MFCC Parameters for Breathing Phase Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Voice as a sensitive biomarker for predicting exercise intensity: a modelling study.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Body Positions and Physical Activity Levels Modulate the Ratio of Abdominal to Thoracic Breathing and Respiratory Rate in Young Individuals.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- A Respiratory Sensor-Based Study of the Relationship between Voluntary Breathing Patterns and Aerobic and Anerobic Exercise Capacity-An Exploratory Applied Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Impact of Starting Positions and Breathing Rhythms on Cardiopulmonary Stress and Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption after High-Intensity Metabolic Training: A Randomized Crossover Prospective Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Design of sports achievement prediction system based on U-net convolutional neural network in the context of machine learning.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Psychophysiological Effects of Slow-Paced Breathing on Adolescent Swimmers' Subjective Performance, Recovery States, and Control Perception.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Slow Breathing Reduces Biomarkers of Stress in Response to a Virtual Reality Active Shooter Training Drill.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Breathing is a natural and necessary process for humans. At the same time, the respiratory pace and frequency can vary so much, depending on the status of the subject. Specifically, in sports, breathing can have the effect of limiting performance from a physiological point of view, or, on the other hand, breathing can regulate the psychological status of the athletes. Therefore, the aim of this narrative review is to focus on the literature about the physiological and psychological aspects of breathing pace in sports performance, merging these two aspects because they are usually considered split, in order to create a new integrated vision of breathing and sports performance. Voluntary breathing can be divided into a slow or fast pace (VSB and VFB, respectively), and their effects on both the physiological and psychological parameters are very different. VSB can benefit athletes in a variety of ways, not just physically but mentally as well. It can help improve cardiovascular fitness, reduce stress and anxiety, and improve overall health and well-being, allowing athletes to maintain focus and concentration during training and competition. VFB is normal during physical training and competition, but away from training, if it is not voluntary, it can cause feelings of anxiety, panic, dizziness, and lightheadedness and trigger a stress response in the body, affecting the athlete's quality of life. In summary, the role of breathing in the performance of athletes should be considered, although no definitive data are available. The connection between breathing and sports performance is still unclear, but athletes can obtain benefits in focus and concentration using slow breathing strategies.
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