How deep can you breathe when you exercise? Increasing your chest mobility and chest expansion could do the trick if your breathing is short or not at the level you would like it to be.
Even though we’re not talking about breathing directly, a big part of having upper body strength is the capacity of expanding your chest to take more air in on one breath. Doing so allows the muscles involved in your breathing to get stronger. The main muscles are the diaphragm and intercostal muscles, but your chest, back, and neck muscles also contribute significantly to how far your rib cage can expand to let the air in.

 if you’re looking at increasing your breath capacity, it’s not enough to just breathe deeper. 

So, if you’re looking at increasing your breath capacity, it’s not enough to just breathe deeper. As you can see, a whole bunch of muscles – and therefore complex movements – are involved in this action, so it would make sense to work on the strength of all of the contributing muscles through specific exercises.
Once you have a moment, check out the video to find out more.

Here are some new cues for you:  

Rolling like a ball – How to maintain chest expansion versus chest collapse

Sidekick series – how to encourage the ribs and obliques muscles to lift.

Stomach series – Single leg stretch new variation

Spine stretch – focus on the upper spine 

Saw – my little anatomy tip. 

Swan – A new variation