Technical Studies

The muscles that provide the power, and therefore the pressure for training with ALIENTO_ns are located around the lungs. Those used to inhale are: the diaphragm, external intercostals and the interchondral part of the internal intercostals, while the accessory muscles are the sternocleidomastoid and the scalenes. Those required for exhale are the internal intercostals, except for the interchondral part, the rectus abdominis and the external and internal obliques. There are also, for want of a better phrase, "core body msucles" that are involved in the breathing process. Specifically these are the transverses abdominis, the muscles of the pelvic floor, the multifidus and the lower trapezzius. These muscles are acticated as a result of the deep breathing required to perform the respiratory training. ALIENTO_ns provides a resistance on both the inhale and exhale part of the breathing, against which, all the muscles mentioned above have to work so that air can be drawn in and expelled from the body.

Applying this theory to the fact the respiratory muscles are trainable; so increasing the strength of the respiratory muscles combined with the power and endurance training, would increase their endurance capacity. Boutellier¹,² showed in his 1992 papers with both sedentary people and endurance trained athletes that respiratory training improved the endurance of the respiratory muscles by over 300% with the sedentary people, and over 600% with endurance trained athletes. Neither showed an increase in VO2max, but both showed a large increase in sub-maximal exercise time, sedentary, 50%; endurance trained, 38%. This would suggest, confirmed by Boutellier himself, that "the respiratory system is an exercise limiting factor in normal, endurance trained subjects", as well as sedentary subjects.

All these studies, which look at respiratory training, can be applied to ALIENTO_ns because ALIENTO_ns offers respiratory muscle training. All these studies train the respiratory muscles to prove or disprove their hypotheses. The respiratory muscles are being used to do the work. Taking the example of a bench press, it has been shown that this exercise strengthens, for simplicity's sake, the chest. The weight is just a catalyst for that. It doesn't matter who made the weight just that the weight enables the person to perform the task.

Relevant Studies

• Dupler and Amonette, 2001*
• Wells, 2002*

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