Here are a few more exercises to help you.

Try lying on your back to practice breathing exercises. When you are lying down, the breathing is deeper and you can easily feel the movement of the muscles. Another thing which helps is to hold a heavy object above your head: use something heavy enough to make lifting it an effort- a bucket of sand or a bar-bell. Your breathing should fall easily into the right place.

Bear in mind that the expansion of the lungs and rib-cage is not only at the front of the body- the whole of the chest from the waist up also moves outwards at the back and the sides. Here is an exercise which I find very helpful- it emphasizes this all-round expansion. When you are doing it think of a balloon expands in all directions.

Sit on firm straight-backed chair, hang your arms loosely and move the elbow away from the sides of the chest. Without moving the shoulders and with your back touching the chair back take a long, slow, deep breath from the bottom of the lungs. Try to expand so that your back swells and presses against the chair. This exercise should quickly establish the sensation of waist and back expansion while breathing. So much for maximum intake of breath.

 Super breathing also involves the maximum outlets of breath, and this is where the pains begins! As you know, completely emptying the lungs gets rid of the stale air in the bottom of the lungs, and makes way for the new, clean air to re-oxygenate the entire lung tissue. Let’s look at the outlet of air from the lungs.

Standing up and having taken a full breath begin slowly to blow out the breath. When your lungs are about empty, your rib-cage will probably starts to collapse: subconsciously you will assume that your lungs are empty and you will automatically take another breath. Your lungs will not be completely emptied. However, and a considerable amount of air will still be inside, so you will need to squeeze a bit more to complete the spring-clean.

Two skills have to be developed. First, holding the rib-cage as expanded as possible while breathing out, and second, pulling-in the abdominal muscles in order to exert a gentle upward pressure on the lungs from underneath. This will give a support to the lungs as they are being emptied of the remaining air.

Now that you understand what goes on when you breathe and what super breathing is all about. I will like you to focus on the next exercise  that I am about to show you. This will make stand out in any singing group or just as a solo artist. Make sure you do this exercise every day and measure your progress daily, here is the SECRET exercise.

1.  Start by breathing in for five seconds

2.  Pausing for five seconds and

3..  Exhale for ten seconds

 Over a period, increase the number of seconds to ten for breathing in, pause for ten, and out to twenty.