Competitive Athletes: Can the position of your jaw and tongue improve athletic performance?
Studies show that just by moving your tongue and jaw slightly forward, you can improve your competitive edge.
Some people just seem to be born with competitive DNA. If you’re the type of person who thrills at shaving a few seconds off your time or otherwise surpassing your personal best, a number of peer-reviewed published studies show that one of your most important pieces of equipment for improving your performance may belong in your mouth.
Athletes in more than 70 countries, including many endurance athletes, are now setting personal records by using a comfortable, non-intrusive mouthpiece to adjust their tongue and jaw which opens their airways.
“The concept of improving performance by adjusting the jaw is hundreds of years old but hard to believe,” comments Dena Garner, Ph.D., an American professor who researched this new technology, and has published several research papers on the topic.
“I agreed to conduct the first study because I didn’t believe that a mouthpiece could improve athletic performance. In fact, I was the biggest skeptic until study after study showed a dramatic improvement in endurance and strength parameters.”
Fifteen years of research and development later, Garner, a full professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance at The Citadel in South Carolina, explains that the AIRWAAV Performance Mouthpiece is now available to athletes everywhere.
“There was a substantial body of research to build on and I focused on how the product could use gentle clenching and tongue placement to unlock every athlete’s potential,” she recalls.
AIRWAAV is so effective that it is the first breathing aid that functional fitness pro Rich Froning, Jr. has incorporated into his training. He even chooses to compete with it on.
“I started out wearing it just in my strength sessions, slowly added it into metcons, and now I wear it all the time,” says Froning. “AIRWAAV is influencing training by bringing awareness to my breathing so I'm more equipped to handle the curveballs that are sure to come.”
The tongue is a muscle and can be used to improve performance the same as any other muscle. This mouthpiece helps position your tongue to allow you to optimize your performance.
Garner cautions that this is not a protective athletic mouthguard. Instead, it is a slim-fitting, comfortable device designed specifically to create an optimal airway opening during workouts, training as well as competition, a drug-free performance enhancer.
AIRWAAV has been shown to increase airway width by as much as 25%. Studies have shown that it can:
Increase endurance by reducing respiratory rate by as much as 20%
Increase strength by improving muscular endurance
Recover faster by reducing cortisol build-up levels by up to 50%
In a study involving resistance training, significant drops in cortisol and lactate levels were observed by using this mouthpiece. Less lactic acid buildup means less muscle burn and fatigue.
Those studies have been published in Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, Modern Sports Dentistry (textbook chapter), Cogent Medicine, Jacobs Journal of Sports Medicine, Academy of General Dentistry, and the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
To take advantage of these easy-to-achieve benefits, visit www.Airwaav.com or Amazon.com.