This is a really shocker - unless you act early, your lungs will shrink as you age. In fact, your lung cells die off faster than you can replace them. Research indicates that you will lose 45% of your lung at age of 70.
That is bad news for your strength, stamina, and immunity system. The smaller your lung is the greater chance from dying of every possible cause. Therefore, if you would like to live almost forever, you should have strong lung.
1. A strong lung gives an extra boost to your stamina. This is because your every day activities call for full tank of oxygen in your lung. Oxygen will burn of calories, which gives you more energy.
2. A super lung combats infection and keeps you from getting sick.
3. A lung with immense capacity of oxygen gets rid of fatigue.
4. A rich oxygen filled lung gives your blood better capacity to convey more nutrients to all part of your body.
5. A strong lung brings forth the power to quicker recovery from sickness and injury.
The European Society of Cardiology reported this in 1988 the decline from lung volume greatly increases the risk of heart disease by 200%.
According to Copenhagen City Heart Study in Denmark, a loss of lung volume raises the risk of first-time stroke by over 30% and the risk of fatal stroke shoots over 200%.
Here is the list of exercises that makes your lung strong:
1. Chi Gong (Nie Gong)
2. Swimming
3. Tai Chi
4. Yoga
These exercises arouse the cells in your heart and lung is a great workout. They also help to improve endurance, muscle strength, and joint posture.
These exercises do not exert great impact on the body and are considered as injury-free exercises. You also get the benefit of resistance training. These exercises do not put the strain on connecter tissues that running, aerobics and some weight-training workouts do.
The intensiveness of breathing in these exercises also expands the capacity of lung. The late Martial Arts masters, Bruce Lee called this the "Breath Power", the ability to control breathing pattern, which improves strength, stamina and sense of well being.
Such power breathing supplies the body with oxygen for the correct and effective performance of every cell. It allows the body to metabolize nutrient efficiently. It gets rid of all the harmful gaseous by products of metabolism, like carbon dioxide.
Power breathing soothes the nervous system, improves concentration, and raises the ability to deal with difficult situations without suffering from stress. It conditions the diaphragm, rib and abdominal muscles to improve core strength and stability.
