Oxygen Advantage

Oxygen Advantage Scientifically proven breathing technique to reduce breathlessness, simulate high altitude training, Find out more at www.oxygenadvantage.com
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The Oxygen Advantage Breathing Technique by Patrick McKeown

The Oxygen Advantage improves sports performance:

1. By understanding how oxygen is released throughout the body, and improving everyday breathing habits so that body oxygenation becomes more efficient

2. By practicing specially designed breath hold exercises which provide the same benefits as high altitude training

Both methods work

by increasing the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to your working muscles and heart during exercise, allowing you to become healthier, faster, fitter and stronger. The Oxygen Advantage technique provides step by step detail to enable you:

-Increase your natural production of EPO safely and legally
-Improve your VO2 max and sports performance
-Reduce your breathlessness during physical exercise
-Improve delivery of oxygen to organs and working muscles
-Prevent exercise induced asthma
-Reduce inflammation and the risk of injury
-Help maintain fitness during rest or injury

For the past eleven years, Patrick McKeown has trained over 5,000 people in reduced breathing exercises. From seriously ill asthmatics to couch potatoes to weekend warriors and Olympic athletes—Patrick teaches a simple, fast way to transform health, well-being, and performance. The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick's latest and most complete book, is based on research supported by over 230 medical papers and studies published in prominent scientific journals. For the first time, this information is being published outside academic journals and made accessible to the public. The Oxygen Advantage allows those who previously avoided exercise due to excessive breathlessness, asthma, or other health and respiratory issues, to become the athletes they’ve always wanted to become. Equally, for the first time, individuals who don’t regularly exercise can use reduced breathing techniques to improve their fitness level substantially before they even set foot on a track, or walk into a gym. The health benefits of reduced breathing for exercisers and for non-exercisers includes better sleep, improved cardiovascular health, increased energy and concentration, easy weight loss and weight maintenance, and the elimination of asthmatic symptoms. The Oxygen Advantage book includes both detailed and simplified descriptions of each exercise, quick reference guides and summaries, case studies, and the science behind the information to enable the reader to fully understand and apply the Oxygen Advantage program.

Slowing down your breathing doesn't mean you're breathing less air.If your rate drops but your body takes bigger breaths...
11/06/2026

Slowing down your breathing doesn't mean you're breathing less air.

If your rate drops but your body takes bigger breaths to compensate — your total air intake can actually go up. You can make over-breathing worse while thinking you're fixing it.

This is the tidal volume problem.

Breathing rate × tidal volume = minute volume. That's the number that matters. And most breathing exercises only address one side of it.

A fixed count — in for 4, out for 6 — can genuinely help one person and quietly make another worse. It depends entirely on how you already breathe.

If someone is already breathing dysfunctionally, already sensitive to CO₂, already feeling like they can never quite get enough air — slowing them down without understanding their actual pattern doesn't solve anything. It can deepen the problem.

Before you change your breathing pattern, it helps to know what your pattern actually is.

That's exactly what our free breathing assessment is for. 👇

💬 Comment BREATHE below and we'll send the free assessment straight to your inbox.

There's a concept in neuroscience called transient hypofrontality..During flow — that state where everything clicks, per...
10/06/2026

There's a concept in neuroscience called transient hypofrontality..

During flow — that state where everything clicks, performance feels effortless, and time distorts — the prefrontal cortex temporarily quietens. That's the part of the brain responsible for self-monitoring, self-doubt, and overthinking.

The inner critic doesn't go quiet because you tried harder or pushed through. It goes quiet because the right conditions were in place..

— A regulated nervous system. Sympathetic overdrive blocks flow entirely. The body has to feel safe before the brain will let go.

— Focused attention. Flow follows focus. The single biggest barrier isn't external distraction. It's internal noise.

— A brain that's breathing well. Chronic overbreathing keeps CO₂ low, neuronal excitability high, and the mind stuck in loops. A brain that's well-oxygenated and settled can produce this state. One that isn't, can't.

This is the Mind pillar of Oxygen Advantage®.. Breathing and attention as a direct, trainable route into the conditions flow requires.

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Anna joined the Oxygen Advantage® Breath Hold Challenge while recovering from injuries and dealing with chronic stress.A...
08/06/2026

Anna joined the Oxygen Advantage® Breath Hold Challenge while recovering from injuries and dealing with chronic stress.

At the time, she couldn’t push her training in the way she used to.

So instead, she focused on breathing.

Using daily dog walks to practise breath holds, Anna committed to the challenge consistently over four weeks.

Working with an Oxygen Advantage® instructor, she also began incorporating nasal breathing sessions on the assault bike using the SportsMask and oximeter.

“It’s forced me to slow things down and really focus on technique.”

The biggest shift?

“Breath holds went from stopping and being out of breath, to stopping in control nasal.”

For Anna, the challenge became a way to continue progressing even during a period where hard training was not possible.

“If you feel like you can’t train hard right now but still want to make progress, I’d definitely recommend this approach.”

“Be consistent. Nasal breathing quickly starts to feel like your default.”

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06/06/2026

Most yoga teachers teach breath. 🌬️
But very few are taught to actually change it.

There's a gap between pranayama and functional breathing — and it shows up in every class, with every student who still struggles to breathe even in the most grounding poses.

On June 20th, Tiger Bye is hosting a free 90-minute live session for yoga teachers and wellness professionals who want to close that gap.

Sign up today we'll send you the free registration link + all five bonus resources 👇

https://oxygenadvantage.com/pages/breathing-masterclass-for-yoga-professionals

📅 Saturday June 20
🕓 4pm Irish/UK · 11am Eastern
💻 Free · Zoom / YouTube

Beyond Pranayama: Breathwork for Yoga Teachers with Tiger Bye

04/06/2026

4 weeks to go! 🇪🇸

We’re putting the finishing touches on our new OA Breathing Centre on Spain’s Costa del Sol, as we prepare to welcome our first group of instructors from around the world.

While the training is now almost fully booked, the excitement is building as we get ready to open our beautiful new space dedicated to breathing, health, performance and education.

We can’t wait to welcome everyone in just one month’s time. ☀️

📍Vélez-Málaga, Spain
📅 2-4 July, 2026

04/06/2026

Sleep apnea is more complex than just anatomy.

On the Built for Growth podcast with Miesha Tate, Patrick McKeown explains why breathing patterns, tongue posture, sleep fragmentation and CO₂ sensitivity all play a role in obstructive sleep apnea — and why restoring nasal breathing is one of the most important places to start.

Watch the full episode of the Built for Growth podcast here: https://youtu.be/hLiPM5YIrvs?si=ZvyS5YNUPJj1xRq0

Most people never connect these symptoms to their breathing.They blame stress. They blame screens. They blame getting ol...
02/06/2026

Most people never connect these symptoms to their breathing.

They blame stress. They blame screens. They blame getting older. They try supplements, sleep trackers, cold showers, more coffee.

But the root cause is often sitting quietly in the background — unnoticed, unmeasured, and completely fixable.

Dysfunctional breathing.

Not dramatic, gasping, obviously-wrong breathing. The subtle kind. Slightly too fast. Slightly too hard. Through the mouth instead of the nose. A breathing pattern that feels completely normal — because it's been normal for years.

Here's what it's quietly doing.

When you breathe too much, CO₂ drops in the blood. And CO₂ isn't just a waste gas — it's the molecule that tells your blood vessels to stay open and relaxed, signals haemoglobin to release oxygen to your cells, and helps regulate your nervous system between calm and stress.

When it drops chronically:
→ Blood vessels constrict — less circulation to the brain and extremities. Hello, cold hands and feet.
→ Haemoglobin holds onto oxygen too tightly — less delivered to where it's needed. Hello, fatigue and fog.
→ The nervous system tilts toward sympathetic dominance — the body's stress state. Hello, poor sleep and background anxiety.

None of these feel like a breathing problem. They feel like life.

The good news? CO₂ tolerance is trainable. Nasal breathing at rest, slowing the breath, reducing volume, building in breath holds — these aren't complicated interventions. But the results, for many people, are profound.

Clearer head. Warmer hands. Better sleep. Calmer baseline.

Not because something was added.

Because something was corrected.

💬 Have you ever connected any of these symptoms to your breathing?
🔗 Take the BOLT test: https://oxygenadvantage.com/pages/bolt-score-test

30/05/2026

Blocked nose? Low energy? Struggling to focus?
It might not be what you think…

A stuffy nose isn’t just about your nose.

It affects:
• your sleep
• your energy
• your ability to focus and think clearly

Simple breath holds can help open the nose naturally.

And when your nose opens:
✔ breathing becomes easier
✔ sleep improves
✔ your mind becomes clearer

Your breath can change more than you think.

👉 Want to try it for yourself?
Join our free Breath Hold Challenge and follow along step-by-step.

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Be honest.Most people who come to breathwork have one of these three that stops them in their tracks.And it matters — be...
28/05/2026

Be honest.

Most people who come to breathwork have one of these three that stops them in their tracks.

And it matters — because all three are trainable. All three directly affect your CO₂ tolerance. And your CO₂ tolerance affects everything from oxygen delivery and blood flow to focus, recovery, and nervous system regulation.

Nose breathing during exercise feels uncomfortable at first because your body is used to dumping CO₂ fast through the mouth. Keeping the mouth closed forces adaptation. It's meant to feel hard. That's the stimulus.

Slowing the breath at rest is harder than it sounds for people who have been chronically over-breathing for years. The urge to take a bigger breath feels urgent — almost threatening. It isn't. It's just a low CO₂ tolerance expressing itself.

Sitting with air hunger is where most people tap out. That mild, tolerable sense of needing more air is not a danger signal. It's the training zone. It's where CO₂ tolerance actually builds.

All three point to the same thing.

Your body has adapted to a breathing pattern that isn't serving you — and it will resist changing it. That resistance is the work.

Drop A, B, or C below. 👇

27/05/2026

Does trauma change the breath?
Or can changing the breath help change the nervous system?

In this conversation, Patrick McKeown and Tom Myers explore the relationship between breathing, stress, emotion and physiology.

Watch or listen to the full episode with Patrick McKeown and Tom Myers
Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts

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