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MAXIMUS Fitness Accelerator Device is a first-in-class device scientifically designed for athletes to use while exercising, HIT training, running, cycling, practicing, or sport-specific conditioning.  Because you use the device while exercising, the training load on your cardiorespiratory system is much greater than exercising without device use. 

Using MAXIMUS during exercise significantly increases the load on your cardiovascular system. Thus lung and heart work much harder than exercise alone, caloric burn is increased dramatically, and accelerated lactate production, muscle burn, and a decreased time-to-fatigue. Because of this overall increased load, added to your existing training efforts, significant performance improvements can be expected, over and above generally seen with exercise alone.

MAXIMUS Fitness Accelerator has Dual Resistance Airflow Technology designed for maximum results. The more you breathe through the MAXIMUS device while exercising, the greater your results.  MAXIMUS is an advanced (CRFA) Cardiovascular Respiratory Fitness Accelerator device designed to be used while exercising for your sport, increasing the workload on the cardiorespiratory system, thus maximizing your results on game-day or event day when not using the device.

Using MAXIMUS Fitness Accelerator while you train or practice increases lung muscle strength and lung efficiency, accelerates your entire cardiorespiratory workload, rapidly and significantly improving VO2 Max and Lactate Threshold.

MAXIMUS Fitness Accelerator device is a first-in-class, scientifically designed cardiorespiratory fitness accelerator training device for athletes to use while exercising, designed to maximize athletic performance on game day when not using the device.

MAXIMUS Fitness Accelerator device is designed to fit into the mouth via a mouthpiece and used during exercise, breathing solely through the machine and your mouth while exercising.  You should avoid breathing through your nose while using the device to maximize the cardiorespiratory load and maximize exercise benefits over time.  If you need to breathe through your nose, you should reduce the resistance level or remove the device.  

When not using the device, breathing through your nose is the most efficient way to breathe, both when exercising and not exercising.

Because you use the device while exercising, while increasing airflow resistance into and out of your lungs, the training load on your cardiorespiratory system is much greater than exercising without using the device.  Because the training load is significantly increased, results from your training efforts are also considerably increased, thus optimizing training results when not using the device for enhanced game-day cardiorespiratory performance.

The more you use the device, the more significant your gains.  However, as with any training device, you should progress gradually over weeks in order to acclimate and not overtrain.  If the training gets too intense, take a break.

When you use the MAXIMUS Performance Optimizer Device, you should focus on deep diaphragmatic breathing.  Profoundly and fully inhaling, exhaling through the device into and out of the lungs.  If you find you are shallow breathing you should reduce airflow restriction level or stop exercising and remove MAXIMUS Performance Optimizer Device.

Stepwise device usage recommendations:

Regardless of your level of fitness, you should follow a five-step process to begin use and progress with the device:

1. Start by using only the mouthpiece, with the valve body removed, to acclimate to resistance breathing through the mouthpiece to gain comfort with resistance breathing through your mouth and mouthpiece only.

Do not breathe through the nose when using the device; only breathe through the mouthpiece and the device. 

Use while walking, breathing very profoundly, fully inhaling and exhaling.   Gradually use mouthpiece only (valve body removed) with mild to moderate exercises, jogging, etc., while breathing deeply, fully inhaling and exhaling only through the mouthpiece.  

Once the user has a level of comfort and confidence you can proceed to step 2 below.

2. Insert valve body into mouthpiece, ensuring a tight fit, and set to level #1.  Begin using the device while walking, jogging short distances, and doing light exercise.  Gradually increase exercise intensity over time practicing diaphragmatic deep breathing, fully inhaling and exhaling.

3. Once you can use the device at level #1 for your exercise routine, practice, etc., employing diaphragmatic breathing, fully inhaling and exhaling with a group of comfort and confidence, you can proceed to rank #2.

4. Repeat step 3 before progressing from level #2 to level #3

5. Repeat step 3 before progressing from level #3 to level #4

6. Repeat step 3 before progressing from level #4 to level #5

Precaution: As with any exercise program, you should stop exercising and remove the device if you feel lightheaded or begin shallow breathing or hyperventilate.  Always focus on deep diaphragmatic breathing when using device and deep diaphragmatic breathing through nose when not using device.

Progressing from mouthpiece usage to level # 1 can take a week or two, depending on frequency and duration of device use.  Once you can breathe through the device and mouth only, without nose breathing, you can move to the next level.  If you find you are breathing through your nose, reduce level until only breathing through device, then advance to next level.  

Always consider the Intensity of exercise, duration of the training, and airflow resistance levels when acclimating to the device.  

The more you use the device, the more significant the benefit, assuming you are not overtraining.

Number of weeks lung trainer used (8 weeks min for best results) 

Traditional breathing training devices (RMT) were designed for sick people with asthma, COPD, cardiac surgery rehab, etc.  These primary breathing trainers used as directed will afford some benefits for sickly patients; the impact and help are minimal in healthy athletes.

Because only MAXIMUS was scientifically designed with dual resistance airflow technology for healthy athletes to be worn while exercising, a significantly more excellent cardiorespiratory load increase results in significantly increased heart rate, breathing difficulty, hypoxia, and caloric burn, considerably improving both lactate threshold and VO2 Max over time.  

The increased cardiorespiratory load creates a more significant performance improvement over eight weeks.  

Respiratory muscle breathing devices had to be used independently of specific sports conditioning or exercise, thereby adding to overall training time, without improving upon specific sport ventilatory demands in particular sports, with only minimal impact on performance improvement.  

Again, traditional RMT devices were designed for sick patients, not healthy athletes. Most traditional breathing trainers only offer airflow resistance while breathing inspiratory airflow resistance.  Thus, only working half of the lungs, half the respiratory equation, are not used during exercise; therefore, the load on the cardiorespiratory system is minimal, lungs only; thus, any improvement is minimized. 

As a healthy athlete, two-way airflow resistance during exercise challenges the cardiorespiratory system greatly.  Much more than exercise alone, thus providing a much more potent and significant cardiorespiratory performance improvement in VO2 max and Lactate Threshold. 

Once you acclimate to the device and gain comfort and confidence in using it, you can use the MAXIMUS device as often as you like, assuming you are not overtraining.  

A Polar H10 or other top-quality HR monitor is important to use while exercising, as you can monitor your training zones to prevent overtraining.

Prototype users have used the device up to 10 hours a week, depending on if the athlete was an endurance or power athlete.  Exercises, HR, zone training, and percentage HR max will impact how long you use the device.  That does not mean you could not use it more often depending on your fitness level as an endurance or power athlete.

The more you use the device, the more significant the acclimation becomes, and the more you use the device over time, the greater your acclimation and results.

Always use care so as not to overtrain. Thus, HR monitors use recommended while using MAXIMUS.

Heart rate monitors are recommended during use to prevent over-training and maximally improve lactate threshold via lactate threshold training programs.  

If you are not educated on lactate threshold training and VO2 Max training, you should read up before using this device for such activity. 

Polar H10 is the recommended HR Monitor for use with this device.  

Go to polar.com and search for Lactate or VO2 Max training.

Fitness watches with HR monitors are helpful; however, an H10 Polar HR monitor is recommended for the most accurate HR data.

HR monitoring is highly recommended to help prevent overtraining.