Exercise for Flexible, Youthful Rib Cage
As with the preceding exercise, this maximizes the body’s spatial capacity for breathing. The previous exercise worked on increasing the lungs’ air holding capacity. This exercise works on the space your rib cage can make available for your lungs to expand.
While standing, exhale completely with arms at your sides. Slowly inhale, filling your lungs to capacity and hold your breath for 20 seconds. As you count place your palms on your hips with your thumbs forward and your pinkie fingers touching each other at your lower spine. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. – Johann W. Goethe
Now pull elbows backward far as possible while holding your breath. Then exhale slowly moving arms down to sides. Repeat 2 or 3 times. This exercise helps keep the rib area flexible, to maximize air lung space.
