How do you strengthen your lungs?

To strengthen your lungs further, do your deep breathing exercise against some kind of resistance. If you have a stretchy exercise band, wrap the band around your chest and hold it with your hands, so it is snug around you. As you inhale, your lung muscles will have to push against the band to expand. Exhale slowly.Aug 14, 2013 read more

How to Increase Your Lung Capacity. Three Methods: Doing Breathing Exercises Performing Cardiovascular Exercise Making Lifestyle Changes Community Q&A. Many sports in today's action-packed world require you to use a vast amount of air in order to be successful. Although you can't increase the size or capacity of your lungs, you can improve their function. read more

The key to preventing lung- and leg-fatigue is breathing more fully. "When you take deeper breaths, you use more air sacs in your lungs, which allows you to take in more oxygen to feed your muscles," says David Ross, M.D., a pulmonologist at UCLA Medical Center. read more

It’s not possible to strengthen your lungs, because lungs don’t have muscles that can be reconditioned. But you can strengthen the muscles that expand the lungs. read more