Breathing Exercises for Recovery & Endurance

With cold and flu season upon us, as well as continued effects of COVID, it’s a great idea to exercise your lungs and diaphragm in addition to full body workouts. Strengthening your breathing muscles has been known to aid in recovery after respiratory illnesses.

This guide (also available in Russian) from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NY, has an excellent set of exercises for diaphragm, chest wall (rib cage), and abdominal (belly) muscles (abs) that all help you breathe.

From techniques to make coughing less intense and painful to stretches and diaphragmic breathing, we invite you to try these exercises for yourself.