Hi, I've been doing Oxycise for about a month and recently have been experiencing extreme pain in my ribs and back muscles. This started after I thought I mastered the three extra inhales. I now realize I may have been ingaging my lats in doing the 3 sniffs. I've made an effort to get out of that habit, but still I have major charlie horses in both sides of my back and had to stop doing Oxycise and anything else for a couple weeks. I now think I can get back into it. My husband noticed that while doing O last month that I seemed to be breathing ALOT deeper and more forcefully than anyone on the DVD (Abs and Upper Body). Am I hurting myself and do I need to breath so hard? I sometimes see stars while breathing and doing positions! Also, has anyone else noticed pain and stretching of the ribcage, besides the mistake I made with the lats? I'm in generally good shape, have done weight training, have good muscle tone and definition except the abs and am trying to lose those last 5-10 pounds. Thank you!

Hi Mimide,
Welcome to the Oxycise board.
Please be careful. You should never be seeing stars when O'ing!
I really believe that somehow you are hurting yourself. Do you have the L1 with the introduction to O? It shows how to do O step, by step. The Abs and Upper Body does not explain how to do the O breath. You might see if your library has the intro to Oxycise.
Welcome again to O. Please come join us on to D2L section.

Sharon

Hello! I agree with Sharon. I think you need to back off and breathe gently. The idea is to get lots of oxygen into your body, but not to breathe so hard that you hurt yourself. I hope you will ease up.

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Susanna