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" By my calculations, I took 220,752,000 incorrect breaths before I started to do it right. Slow learner, I know. I&amp;#039;d breathed the same way for forty-two years. Then this guy \u2014 a New York vocal coach named Justin Stoney \u2014 gave me a lesson. I&amp;#039;d always heard, &amp;quot;Breathe with your diaphragm.&amp;quot; Fine. But where the hell is a man&amp;#039;s diaphragm? Forget the diaphragm. And while you&amp;#039;re at it, forget the chest. Just focus on the stomach. Push it out like you&amp;#039;re doing an Al Gore impression \u2014 as much paunch as you can, maybe even some gravitas. Then pull it in. The breath will follow. When the stomach is fattest, that&amp;#039;s when you create a vacuum and air enters your body. When you flatten your belly, the air will shoot out. If you feel your lungs filling up, you&amp;#039;re doing it wrong. Don&amp;#039;t breathe with the upper chest. And don&amp;#039;t worry: It seems like a pain in the ass now, but it&amp;#039;ll become second nature surprisingly quick.  With my new respiration, I have more endurance, I feel more energetic (possibly the placebo effect, but so be it), and I don&amp;#039;t have that horrible burning-chest feeling when I&amp;#039;m pounding the treadmill. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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