Breathletics

Breathletics USE YOUR BREATH AS A WEAPON 💨⚡️
Better breathing, better living, better performance. Transform your life with breathwork! in Kinesiology.

Join us on the journey to peak health and athletic excellence. Meet Mike Kolander, Founder of Breathletics

Mike Kolander’s journey in the fitness industry began in the summer of 1996 when he graduated from the University of Illinois/Chicago with a B.S. With over 35,000 clinical hours and numerous certifications in NASM, CrossFit, and Breathwork Facilitation, Mike brings unparalleled expertise to

the Breathletics team. Throughout his career, Mike has worked with a diverse range of clients, including the Chicago Blackhawks, professional athletes, senior citizens, rehab patients, military personnel, travel sports teams, teachers, and stay-at-home moms. His personalized wellness prescriptions are tailored to meet and surpass each client’s unique goals safely and efficiently. As a Certified Advanced Instructor through the Oxygen Advantage and a Certified Breathe Instructor through The Breathing Class, Mike's passion for breathwork has transformed both his professional and personal life. He is dedicated to sharing the incredible benefits of breathwork, helping others improve their athletic performance, sleep quality, stress levels, and overall well-being. Join Mike and the Breathletics team to experience the life-changing power of breathwork! 🌬️✨

CO2 training is the most underrated and uber-important aspect of any athletes drive to get better and ascend their perfo...
08/31/2026

CO2 training is the most underrated and uber-important aspect of any athletes drive to get better and ascend their performance to the next level. Some ways to train the body’s response to CO2 build-up :
*Daily breath holds
*Slow breathing
*Nasal breathing at all times
Find out how - link in bio
Tuen your breath into a weapon

08/29/2026

Mask training Sam Colonna Boxing w Zariah

The diaphragm is a muscle, just like your quads and glutes…so why aren’t you training it weekly like you do those other muscles ? ESPECIALLY because it’s the engine that runs the system.

Spend dozens of hours per week in the gym building, but you’ve got a weak and undertrained diaphragm?

It’s like having a Ferrari with no tires. Great looking body but can’t move for s**t……

Better breathing, higher performance
08/26/2026

Better breathing, higher performance

08/21/2026

When you take the first 3-5 minutes after your workout and incorporate slow nasal breathing, a few things happen that are of upmost importance of any athlete at any level…..

Lower cortisol and increased collagen. You put your body out of stress mode from the workout and into “relax and recover” mode by staying off of your computer, phone or out of your “monkey brain” with tasks or jobs you have to do.

Higher growth hormone pulse. By lowering cortisol, you allow the growth hormone to have an even bigger effect on growth and recovery. Higher stress = lower growth hormone pulse.

Get more blood to your brain and to your muscles. When you aren’t going from the stress of a workout to the stress that life’s throwing at you, you lower your bp, hr and you get more blood to the brain. The slow breathing keeps more CO2 in the blood, which acts as a vasodilator, opening up all thousands and thousands of blood vessels, making it easier on your heart and allowing blood to flow to your brain w less constriction.

Turn your breath into to a weapon

link in bio to get our Athletic Breathwork Workbook

08/18/2026

EVERYONE should do breath hold training…..even if you are sedentary and eat like s**t. Breath holding has now been proven to provide benefits and unlock healing processes in your body that used to cost TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to obtain ……

*Spike in growth hormone

*EPO release (Lance Armstrong had to shoot this into his blood, you are doing it au naturale) - This means you get extra RBC’s in the blood. That means more energy can be delivered to your muscles during athletic performance.

*Stem Cell Activation

*Higher Resting Hemoglobin - meaning you can now transport the extra O2 with more hemoglobin. Again, great for energy but also healing and recovery.

This is your body’s natural biology. Unlock what you already have, and keep yourself away from Big Pharma.

08/13/2026

Getting after it Spear Training Center🎯 w golf legend-in-the-making Jacob Wolken - THE KID JUST SHOT A 78. That is literally 13 holes for most golfers and JW isn’t near high school yet ……

Mask training during hr elevating exercises makes the diaphragm work harder due to the smaller pre-set openings in the apparatus.

The diaphragm is the body’s engine room - when you train it and then every breath puts more power behind the next move.

When your diaphragm is under-trained ? The brain will send a signal to bring more blood to the core area bc with a “dead” diaphragm, you start breathing w your chest and shoulders. That is incongruent, so the body tries to correct it by bringing blood from your extremities (arms and legs). Id say it’s pretty hard to maintain an elite level of athletic output when your arms and legs are working on a much lower capacity of energy.

Want proof ? Go check out Jake Paul in his last boxing match - the dude’s mouth was WIDE open, breathing from his chest and shoulders , and he couldn’t keep his arms up. This the broken jaw (in multiple places). He still isn’t talking right…..

08/08/2026

Getting after it Spear Training Center🎯 w Breathletics athlete and soon-to-be 2nd Degree Black Belt Adam C

By strengthening your diaphragm, you are unlocking a super muscle that is the most undertrained muscle in the body. A strong diaphragm means a few things in regards to athletic performance…..

*Better bracing for more power thru the torso and into the movement - lifting, punching, throwing , swinging

*Better, more efficient breathing during fatigue, keeping O2 (energy) flowing to your muscles

*Works deep abdominals and the pelvic floor, giving you more stability to produce more force

*Faster recovery, keeping you at an elite energetic level

*Keeps mechanics within the movement congruent and efficient. A weak diaphragm means other muscles are compensating for a weak core system, most likely taking the athlete out of their natural movement and into 2nd place…..

Turn your breath into a weapon - links in bio

08/02/2026

If you can breathe thru your nose, you are training your body.

If you are breathing thru your mouth, you are testing your body.

Keep your muscles fed with energy at the highest rate possible, keep focus high, and keep the stress on the muscles and not the energy delivery system.

Turn your breath into a weapon
Getting after it Spear Training Center🎯 w Breathletics athlete Ross W.

Well, well - Zariah showed grit and toughness beyond her years as she got the win at the Never Forgotten 5 Showdown this...
07/26/2026

Well, well - Zariah showed grit and toughness beyond her years as she got the win at the Never Forgotten 5 Showdown this Sunday…. Z showed grit and toughness, and the focus and dedication she has to her craft is paying off in a big way. Another fight, another win

07/26/2026

If you take a quick 3 minute set of slow diaphragm activation (paired w nasal breathing) , you turn your body out of the sympathetic state due to the stress you’ve put on yourself with the workout and put it in the sympathetic state, thus allowing the growth hormone pulse to increase and your blood pressure and heart rate to decrease.

When you go immediately into your emails, texts, work, etc- you keep your body in a stressed out state. It makes it harder for your body to recover as fast and efficiently as it can.

All it takes is 3 minutes - put a ball (small weight, even your phone) on your lower stomach. Take a slow nasal inhale and make the weight (phone, etc) elevate. On the exhale, have it lower back down to the starting position. Repeat for 3 minutes……

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