chimpanzee
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Hi everyone, first post here. I've been reading a lot about Buteyko breathing lately. First of all, I don't doubt the benefits of it, but I don't understand the value of the Control Pause time as a metric for progress.
First of all, the need to breathe is triggered by an accumulation of CO2 above the set point. This means that the control pause will be higher when your CO2 is low relative to your set point. For example hyperventilating a la Wim Hof prior to the breath hold will allow you to reach a much higher retention time.
Doesn't this mean that if you have a high CP you didn't just raise your CO2 set point, but you also normally over breathe in a way that your CO2 at any given time (except during Buteyko practice) is much lower than your set point?
Wouldn't it be more desirable to raise the set point and also have a shorter control pause meaning that your normal CO2 saturation is much higher overall and closer to your set point?
Is there a flaw in my logic, and if there isn't, is there any other metric to track progress that does not suffer from this issue?
Thanks.
First of all, the need to breathe is triggered by an accumulation of CO2 above the set point. This means that the control pause will be higher when your CO2 is low relative to your set point. For example hyperventilating a la Wim Hof prior to the breath hold will allow you to reach a much higher retention time.
Doesn't this mean that if you have a high CP you didn't just raise your CO2 set point, but you also normally over breathe in a way that your CO2 at any given time (except during Buteyko practice) is much lower than your set point?
Wouldn't it be more desirable to raise the set point and also have a shorter control pause meaning that your normal CO2 saturation is much higher overall and closer to your set point?
Is there a flaw in my logic, and if there isn't, is there any other metric to track progress that does not suffer from this issue?
Thanks.