athletic breath course · by hale · for coaches

Breathing for the athletes you coach.

From breathwork essentials to capnography. A professional training in how to read, test and program breathing for the people you train. Part of the Hale Breath Coach Certification.

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Online · 10 weeks · Self-paced and live Monday calls · Support community · Diploma on completion

Athlete on a bike during a sprint interval

You plan the training. Nobody is reading the breath.

Athletes often arrive at a session not ready. They are not present and have no awareness of what their breathing is doing to them.

That shapes what you can do with them in the session and how well they recover afterwards. Most coaches don't see these signs. Very few have a framework for what they mean or what to do about them.

The Athletic Breath course lets you work on this layer too, including psychophysiology and breathing habits.

The course

How the course is built

You start with Foundations and Guiding Essentials side by side, self-paced over four weeks with a support community alongside. Then four weeks of the Athletic course with live calls on Monday evenings, followed by two weeks of Advanced Athletic.

Part 1 · Self-paced · 4 weeks

Foundations

A broad understanding of breathwork and breathing. Techniques and tools you can apply and use for yourself. You breathe through the Hale concept classes on the training platform and in the Hale app.

When a group of coaches starts together, we add live group sessions with a Hale coach.

Part 1 · Self-paced · 4 weeks

Guiding Essentials

Facilitation skills for athletic breath. How to guide specific parts of a session and bring breathing into the work you already do, in any environment, not only sport.

Part 2 · Live Monday calls · 4 weeks

Athletic Breath course

We go deeper into the Hale concept with the integrated classes and apply breathing through the lens of Breathing Habit Training. Specific programming and the assessments we use for different types of athletes.

Part 3 · 2 weeks

Advanced Athletic

Capnography to evaluate players in real time and work with the tool in training. Understand breathing, training and behavior patterns and bring the right program into an athlete's training. Includes an advanced science module.

What you learn to do

Read it, test it, program it

Assess

Read the breath

Where the breath moves, how an athlete arrives at a session and how fast the breath comes back after an effort.

Program

Build it into training

Breathing in warm ups, zone 2, intervals and down regulation, planned into the sessions you already run.

Coach

Make it stick

How to talk about breathing habits and triggers so the change carries over into training, recovery and daily life.

From a previous student
"You're gonna add another layer to your teaching and coaching that can help enhance someone's wellbeing and performance."
Matthew Griffiths · PT and fitness coach

Who it is for

  • Personal trainers and strength and conditioning coaches
  • Team sport coaches, including hockey
  • HYROX, CrossFit and endurance coaches and box owners
  • Physios and therapists working with active people
Johnny Oduya
Your teacher

Johnny Oduya

Founder of Hale · Certified Breathing Behavior Analyst (CBBA) · Former NHL player · Two-time Stanley Cup champion

Fifteen years as a professional athlete, ten years applying breathing and almost a decade teaching it. The Athletic Breath course is that experience turned into a method other coaches can use with their own athletes.

Join the course

Athletic Breath course

Take it as a single track, or as part of the full Hale Breath Coach Certification. Foundations and Guiding Essentials are included.

Book a short call and we will look at which route fits the work you do.

Single track 30 000 kr Incl. VAT · Payment plans available Book a call Want to try it on yourself first? Get the free course