Building lung capacity - advice needed

[Trev]

My other half recommended doing Pranayama yoga (she's done it before) and reckons it is really good at strengthening and stretching your lungs.

Curious to know actually if anyone has tried this style of yoga....

Recommend it, learning diaphragmatic breathing and or Buteyko breathing is good too but see about the asthma and other issues, if they are clear a breathing program and the swimming stuff is spot on.
iF you are developing adult onset asthma then Buteyko breathing is a good way to go as it may help you prior to reaching s a level where medication management is needed.
Perhaps a stupid question, but, Do you smoke

Used to. I gave up about 12 years ago, went cold turkey from smoking a pack of Marlborough Reds a day too. I still remember the detox and how sick I got after that.

I've had the odd social smoke since then but that's it.

I don't reckon its asthma personally, I had that when I was a little kid though - brought on by my old man smoking around me when I was a baby. But when he stopped doing that so did the asthma

Hatchy, don't write off the asthma thing totally. Check it out. My wife had it when she was young. Parents told she wouldn't make it to her teens and all that sort of stuff. Actually had two tracheotomies as part of experimental surgery because she was so bad.
She took up swimming in her teens and the asthma went away so she figured she'd grown out of it. It started to come back in her early 40's while we were in Sydney and our GP referred her to a specialist who we still often see on television when the news people are looking for information.
Anyway, she told my wife that you NEVER grow out of it. If you have it as a child it will go into remission but normally resurfaces later in life, brought on by some related health issue (sound familiar).
Thanks to her my wife's asthma is manageable. Like me she's 63, so she way outlasted what her parents were told when she was a baby.
In the years since it came back I'v made a point of getting to know more about asthma. Insidious bloody disease.
The young fella (15) next door has it. Rips your heart out to hear him coughing choking and wheezing.

[Grooter]

I've had the odd social smoke since then but that's it.

Call me a fascist or something but I've never understood the concept of a social smoke??
But genuinely have a look at the Pranayama yoga and Buteyko, , have you got a VHS recorder still? I think I have an old tape of the Buteyko method, give it to you over coffee when I'm down your way?

The VIC trip is on for my wife and I and I am look for tubeless waves

I wish mate, through out my VHS a few years ago now!

Good to hear you're on your way down, drop me a line when you get here

[otway1949]

I wish mate, through out my VHS a few years ago now!

Good to hear you're on your way down, drop me a line when you get here

That works out well as I can't find the tape, staying about 5 nights at Flinders

[yanks r us]

Breathing exercises/techniques won't improve your lung capacity, you need exercise, nice sweaty exercise.

[otway1949]

That too

[swvic]

The VIC trip is on for my wife and I and I am look for tubeless waves

That works out well as I can't find the tape, staying about 5 nights at Flinders

Flinders has Cyrils and Meanos - both not bad for a tube. Not the longest in the world, for sure, but when they're on, it'll keep ya pretty happy.

[otway1949]

So will swvic be near sevic at the time

[swvic]

Unfortunately no. Working right through. Not even excepted are those sacrosanct days, although at work very briefly.
Good bit is that crowds always smaller down my way, but shit I miss some of the waves over there. Beachies from Portsea to the Schank, previously mentioned waves at Flinders and several other occasional gems like the reef, the point, honeysuckle, bushies bay, quarantine (now there's another tube for you), crunchie point - low tide huge swell, merricks, the list goes on. Hope you get some good ones in. Who knows, you might even snag a barrel.

[Grooter]

Unfortunately no. Working right through. Not even excepted are those sacrosanct days, although at work very briefly.
Good bit is that crowds always smaller down my way, but shit I miss some of the waves over there. Beachies from Portsea to the Schank, previously mentioned waves at Flinders and several other occasional gems like the reef, the point, honeysuckle, bushies bay, quarantine (now there's another tube for you), crunchie point - low tide huge swell, merricks, the list goes on. Hope you get some good ones in. Who knows, you might even snag a barrel.

Should've been over here a few months ago, swell was so masisve on the buoys on the ocean beachies (8 metres or more) the Pines, I shit you not the Pines, was 5 - 6 foot.

It was insane, I surfed till I nearly collapsed from exhaustion

[Haz]

I shit you not the Pines, was 5 - 6 foot.

Iggy scale

[Grooter]

I shit you not the Pines, was 5 - 6 foot.

Iggy scale

iggy scale.

The waves were higher than the outer boat marker when they came through

[swvic]

Should've been over here a few months ago, swell was so masisve on the buoys on the ocean beachies (8 metres or more) the Pines, I shit you not the Pines, was 5 - 6 foot.

It was insane, I surfed till I nearly collapsed from exhaustion

Didn't mention Pines yesterday, but same as Crunchie - big and low tide and it's quite different to the longboarder's cruise that it mostly is. And, Atlas - the occasional left out there. Reminiscing again..............

Yeah, I remember the swell. Full on westerly here which limits the options for quality. Me and some mates tried to surf a 6 foot beachie because we were seeing some awesome peaks. The paddle out was the hardest I've ever tried. Half hour later realised it was almost impossible to catch a wave - so much water moving about. Got 1 after about another hour and came in. Wasn't paddling through it again. A high-quality option down this way in those conditions can be found further west, but fcuk does it get crowded. I usually avoid it.

[otway1949]

this trip will be interesting, never in 50 years of surfing have I ever surfed Victoria............