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Breathing Exercises for Shooting

Your breathing moves the sights. Shooters learn to break the shot in the natural pause after an exhale, when the chest is still. The other half is staying calm enough that your heartbeat does not show in your hold.

How to use them

Resonance Breathing and Box Breathing build calm, steady breathing as a daily habit. Triangle Breath helps you find a consistent pause to break the shot in. Clutch Reset is a single cycle for the final shots of a match, when your hands start to shake.

New to this? Start with Box Breathing: Equal parts inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Used by Navy SEALs for calm focus.

Every day: build the base

Train daily, away from the action.

• Box Breathing — Equal parts inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Used by Navy SEALs for calm focus.
• Resonance Breathing — 5.5 breaths per minute for heart-brain coherence.

Game day: before and between efforts

Before and between efforts.

• Triangle Breath — Inhale, hold, exhale - equal counts for steady aim.
• Clutch Reset — One quiet cycle to steady hands and eyes under pressure.

Get the app

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Other sports

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General information about breathing practices, not medical or coaching advice.