BREATHING TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE & ACCURACY - JOMH
Imagine if the key to success in the mountains is your lungs. Simple enough, right? Breath work is an overlooked fundamental skill when it comes to shooting. Unfortunately, “Break the trigger at the natural respiratory pause” is about as in-depth as people go. At 10,000 feet of elevation with a small house on your back, those natural respiratory pauses are about as short as a tinder fling.
Incorporating breath work into your training will increase your ability to recover after intense durations of energy output, and increase your ability to control the physical effect on your body when shooting. In this article, I’m going to illustrate how breath work can make you a better shooter and how simple it is to incorporate into the training you already do.
Above hunting, breathing is at the top of the list of activities humans have engaged in the longest. After all, we must control our breathing for every activity we do. Our bodies are hardwired to look for threats in our environment and react to those stressors. The inability to recover from stressors dramatically decreases performance. Most people have huge deficiencies in their breathing patterns, so let’s take a breath.
