how can i increase my lung capacity?
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don't smoke, do breathing excercises, run regularly, and just try to stay healthy
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The lung capacity varies from person to person - like a muscle, some have healthier and more effective lungs.\n\nI remember doing an experiment at school (man, that was years ago) that gave us our lung capacity in litres!\n\nTLC [Total Lung Capacity] is approximately 4000 to 6000 mL in a healthy young adult.
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Monitor weight, don't smoke.  Swimming is a great exercise to improve the cardiovascular system.  Take medication if you have asthma -- stay away from attack-triggers.
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You can expand your lung capacity via aerobic training (sprint repeats, interval training, hill workouts, fartlek, etc).\n\nIncrease your endurance by increasing the base mileage you run and your long run for the week.  If you put in an avaerage of 40 miles a week, with a 10 miler as your long run, then increase it to 41 miles with an 11 miler as your long run for the next week.  I've found that 10% or less increments in your long run work best, followed with a backing down of the mileage every 3rd week to allow for recovery (do only 30 miles that week, with a long run of only 8 miles).  Most importanyly, when you're trying to increase your endurance, listen to what your body is telling you, and don't overdo it.  If you do, you'll surely be off your feet longer than you'd want to if you hurt yourself.\n\nGood luck, and enjoy your runs!
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My mother's remedy for such like.\n\nCut an onion in half.\nChop one half up fine and place in a saucer.\nPour over two tablespoons of good quality vinegar.\nSprinkle a teaspoonful of sugar and cover with another saucer.\nLeave overnight for twelve hours. \nPlace the remaining half in the bedroom.\nNext day take one spoonful of the juice each five hours.\nRepeat a fresh batch daily for five days.\n\nThe liquor frees up the airways and loosens up the the mucus.\nThe piece in the bedroom removes all airborne viruses.\nIt works and is natural.\nCures all sorts of chest problems.\nI am 83.
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Yes they do; the more you exercise, the more efficient your pulmonary and cardiovascular systems become, which leads to a greater VO2 Max, or greater lung capacity.
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exercise, go for a little sprint, or do some situps.\n\nThat will raise your heart level and wallah, instant energy.
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well it's easy for me cause i'm a soprano singer but if it really means that much to you try singing scales higher and higher slowly until you can reach the note. it also helps with lung capasity
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well i know with simple instructions!\n\nTo measure how much air your lungs can hold by making a spirometer.\nInstructions: Lung Capacity\n1\nWhat You Need\n• 2 or 3 liter plastic bottle\n• Large, deep bowl or plastic dishpan\n• Water\n• Masking tape\n• Measuring cup\n• 30 cm (1 foot) long piece of flexible tubing (aquarium tubing works well)\nTo Do and Observe\n1. Vertically attach a strip of masking tape to the plastic bottle, from the\nbottom to the top of it. Fill the measuring cup with 60ml of water. Pour\nthe water into the bottle. Mark the water level on the tape. Repeat until\nyou've marked to the top of the bottle.\n2. Fill the dishpan about 10cm (4 inches) high with water.\n3. Fill the plastic bottle to the top with water, and hold your fingers over the\nmouth of the bottle so the mouth is completely covered.\n4. Invert the bottle into the pan of water. Make sure you do not remove your\nfingers until the mouth of the bottle is completely submerged. Insert one\nend of the tubing into the mouth of the bottle.\n5. Take a breath and exhale completely into the open end of the tubing.\n6. Measure how much air is now in the bottle (count the marks). To calculate\nyour lung capacity, multiply the number of marks by 60ml. If your pan is not\ntoo full of water, you can repeat without filling the bottle back up.\nWhat's Going On\n• The amount of air you can hold in your lungs is called lung capacity, and\ncan be measured with a spirometer. Blowing air from your lungs into the\nbottle forces a measurable amount of the water out of the bottle, which\nadds to the volume of water in your pan. This method of measuring uses\ndisplacement – you're displacing a volume of water with a volume of air.\nInstructions: Lung Capacity\n• Displacement is often used when something can't be measured directly. What else could you\nmeasure using displacement?\nTips\n• Check for variations in lung capacity in people of different sizes (older students,\nyou). Ask your class to look for a correlation between body size and lung\ncapacity.\n• Have each participant test for a difference between a "normal" breath of air and\nan "expanded" deeper breath.
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Go to your chemist and buy some Bronchial mixture. Its a thick brown horrible goo that you drink, and while you are taking it you will be constantly coughing up crap. But it is very effective in letting you get all the gunk out of your lungs.
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You need to improve your endurance with aerobic activity, not just kung fu.  Try cross training with jogging, swimming, or biking for at least 30 minutes two days a week.  When your body gets used to longer workouts you wont run out of breath after 10 minutes.
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hi. allow me to share with you a couple of  highly effective yoga techniques which a am sure will do u a whole lot of good. \nthe exercices or "PRANAYAM" as they r widely known, not only cures respiratory illnesses but also takes care of exceessive weigt gain, eyesight and also heart ailments in many patients. people have understood the benefits within weeks of starting these exercises, and i beleive u will 2.\n\n1. sit with an erct posture on the ground. both legs crossed. this is the common position in all yogic asanas.  relax. and do this one slowly. inhale air deeply from left nostril while holding the other closed with the thumb of the right hand. after completing the inhalation close the left nostril with right mid finger and exale slowly from the right nostril. follow this with an  inhale from the right and exale from the left using fingers as mentioned. do this task for 10-15 mmins daily.\n\n2. take a deep breath and slowly expel the air with mouth closed. simultaneously make a humming sound from ur mouth. do this for 5-1o minutes everyday.\n\nnote. these exercises need to be done on an empty stomach. so it is important that u havent eaten anything 3-4 hrs prior to doing these exercise. hence early morning is the best time to perform yoga. 1/2 na hour will put u enroute to a life of healthy living
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have you tried using gum or patches? You should try those, it might at least help you cut back a bit. I'm sure that gets really expensive, and you could use your money for something else, too. (just another motivator...besides your lungs lol)
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If you are on home oxygen, following advise from this forum can be dangerous. Please don't try any home remedies, without consulting your physician. \n\nA note to anyone suggesting home remedies for increasing lung capacity. You don't know this persons history, and bad advice can be lethal. Think before you write.
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You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute without even thinking about it. When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up -- again, without you thinking about it. You breathe so regularly that it is easy to take your lungs for granted. You can't even stop yourself from breathing if you try! \n\nYour lungs are complex organs, but what they do is take a gas that your body needs to get rid of (carbon dioxide) and exchange it for a gas that your body can use (oxygen). In this article, we will take a close look at how your lungs work and how they keep your body's cells supplied with oxygen and get rid of the carbon dioxide waste. We will explain some of the conditions and diseases that make breathing harder and cause the lungs to fail. We will also explain why you can't hold your breath for a long time and why you cough or hiccup. \n\nThere is alot more at this web site.  Good luck!\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/lung.htm
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No, but boy that would be nice. My son and  I have Astma, but thankfully it's very mild.\n\nNow, I've heard of Athletes who've abused Albutrol to increase their lung functions. (Albutrol is a medication commonly in astmas inhailers)
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See a doctor.  Don't take chances with your lungs.  It could be as simple as needing an antibiotic but you may do permanent damage if untreated.  Take care.