Abstract
The respiratory muscles have a key role within the respiratory system allowing air to be pumped in and out the lungs. As other skeletal muscles, they can fatigue and be affected by pathological mechanisms leading to muscle weakness. They can also be trained using specific strategies inducing overloading and adaptations over time. Inspiratory muscle resistive training and respiratory muscle isocapnic hyperpnea training are the two main training methods used to increase respiratory muscle strength and endurance. It has been shown in healthy subjects that these kinds of training improve not only respiratory muscle function but also endurance exercise performance. In several diseases, patients can also benefit from respiratory muscle training which can improve respiratory function, exercise capacities, symptoms, and quality of life. As other training and rehabilitative methods, also respiratory muscle training, to be efficient, requires appropriate modalities, intensity, and duration as well as evaluations of the training effects.
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Verges, S. (2019). Respiratory Muscle Training. In: Cogo, A., Bonini, M., Onorati, P. (eds) Exercise and Sports Pulmonology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05258-4_10
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