ATHLEISURE LIST | BREATHWRK

Breathwork as a category is rooted in bonafide clinical science. Not only are breathing exercises proven to positively impact qualitative stuff like how you feel, they also improve biometrics like heart rate and blood pressure. Breathing exercises provide nearly instant relief, and with prescriptive combinations of inhales, exhales and holds, require no skill or experience.

For all these reasons, the team at health app Breathwrk believe their product is one of the most powerful solutions for the mass market. In the app, content is grouped into 4 core categories:

Night Time: Trouble shutting your mind off before bed can result from an overactive sympathetic nervous system, which controls your fight or flight response. Extended exhales raise your body’s relaxation center, the parasympathetic nervous system, to soothe overactivity and help you sleep faster.

Calm: Whenever someone tells you to "take a deep breath," the techniques in this category are what they’re referring to.

Perform: Executing a challenging breath hold at the end of your exhale increases your body’s red-blood-cell production for superior oxygen efficiency. The techniques in this category also support faster recovery by lowering your pulse after periods of intense exertion.

Energize: Short-burst inhales & exhales raise your body’s activity center to prime your nervous system for intense mental & physical effort, increasing heart rate, alertness and focus.

The free version of the app includes a small percentage of the exercise library, with their most popular breaths. For those interested in a deeper and more diverse Breathwrk practice, the competitively priced Pro version unlocks all content. There are a number of features that incentivize habitual usage. The most powerful is tracking against oneself, using features like Streaks to motivate consistency.

The company also extended into the real world with one of the first studios specializing in breathing exercises, building an even stronger community. At the studio, classes will help people wake up, strength train, sleep better and even achieve psychedelic-adjacent states.

If you would like to check out Breathwrk's app for a 7-day free trial, then click here to get 30% off Breathwrk Pro for 1 year, exclusive to Athleisure.

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ATHLEISURE LIST | ADIDAS RUNTASTIC

As we have been staying at home and we continue to include new routines into our workout, we can always think of ways to change it up. We started using Adidas Runtastic which includes a number of modalities from running, cardio, yoga and more. This app (available for Apple and Android) also allows you to create a training plan that works for you, challenge yourself as well as to track your efforts. We like that we can connect it to our Google Fit which connects to our Fitbit so that we can keep our stats in one place.

As you focus on getting stronger, you are able to create a workout that fits your schedule. Intensify and diversify your workout by joining challenges, compare your activity to others as a way to positively challenge yourself to the next level. We love that we're able to record our activity while sharing with others within the global community. This workout lets you work from home or in other approved social distanced environments.

We also enjoy checking out their blog for an array of tips that include cardio, strength, nutrition, daily habits, success stories and information that you may want to know about the culture of Runtastic.

As you continue to use the app, you will find that by completing challenges and rewards, that you will receive incentives for all of your hard work. We also suggest that for those that are fan of Adidas to set up an account for their Creator's Club. As you purchase your favorite gear, you will move through various levels of complimentary access to this program for 3 months to test it out. If you enjoy the benefits, we're sure that you'll continue to find the methods that work best for you.

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