The 5 Best Breathing Exercisers – [2020 Reviews]

The Breather was designed by a respiratory therapist to help facilitate breathing exercises for asthma, COPD, and other chronic lung conditions. It can also be used to help patients with congestive heart failure, hypertension, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and neuromuscular diseases.

That’s because this respiratory training device helps increase lung capacity, strengthen multiple muscles within the respiratory system, improve oxygen levels, and improve the function of the muscles within the throat to even allow better swallowing and speech performance.

The special mouth-piece on The Breather is flanged to allow anyone to get a great seal for easy use. It also comes with special adaptors if you need a different mouthpiece shape/size. One of the other unique features of

The Breather is the special dials that are designed specifically to allow even those with poor hand strength and function to use them easily. You can turn the dials with your fingers as normal or you can actually place your palm on the dial to turn it if needed.

There are two dials on The Breather – one on each side. Since this is actually both an expiratory and inspiratory muscle training device, it has one dial for each. These dials are adjusted independently from each other to allow for more customized breathing resistance training.

As you adjust each dial, you are increasing or decreasing the resistance that The Breather puts on your respiratory muscles as you inhale and exhale.

This allows you to practice deep breathing exercises with increased resistance as you increase the strength of your respiratory muscles. The compact size and lightweight design also make this option completely portable. The Breather is an excellent, high-quality breathing exerciser that is hard to beat.

Like The Breather, the Expand-A-Lung does facilitate both expiratory and inspiratory training. This simply means that you’ll feel resistance when you inhale and when you exhale, which is something not all respiratory trainers do.

One of the other big pulls of this lung strengthening device is the compact size. It is the smallest option that we reviewed coming in at just 4 inches long. This makes it extremely easy to transport it anywhere anytime.

Since the air-flow valve is fully adjustable, you can start with a low level of resistance and work your way up as your respiratory strength increases.

This can be especially helpful when using the breathing device to strengthen lungs for COPD exercises or other lung-related medical conditions. That’s because people experiencing a lung-related medical issue are more likely to start out with weaker respiratory muscles.

The mouthpiece on the Expand-A-Lung breathing training device is made of medical-grade silicone that is easily flexible. This gives almost anyone a comfortable fit with a great seal letting them get the most out of their breathing exercise.

For this lung training device, you’ll slide the mouthpiece into your mouth and rest your teeth on the built-in ledges for maximum comfort. Of course, this does mean that it will go a bit deeper into your mouth than The Breather, which can be bothersome for some.

It’s also worth mentioning that this is a very popular choice of breathing exerciser and it consistently gets excellent reviews from users. It has even received a lot of positive attention from various magazines across the globe.

Considering how easy and convenient this option is on top of having a very reasonable and affordable price, it is definitely worth considering for your lung exercise device.

Unlike our previous two picks, the POWER breathe breathing strength device is specifically just an inspiratory trainer. It provides resistance as you inhale and then lets your muscles rest as you exhale. This can have some benefits, especially since it is a bit easier and increasing lung capacity is the goal of most users.

For example, you might want to consider this if you’re doing breathing exercises for COPD since the problems associated with COPD come from problems during inhalation rather than exhalation.

Something else unique about the POWERbreathe is the ergonomic design. The way you hold this device can prove to be much more comfortable compared to other options as it fits in your hand perfectly while allowing you to remain in a natural and comfortable position.

The mouthpiece fits right inside your mouth with flared edges that give you the perfect seal you need to maximize the benefits you get from your breathing training.

The mouthpiece is also made to be anti-bacterial to help keep everything as sanitary and safe as possible for you as you use your breathing trainer. A couple of things that you should keep in mind when considering the POWERbreathe is the size of it and the cost of it.

It is the most expensive option that we reviewed, and it is quite a bit bigger than most of our choices. Of course, it isn’t so large that you wouldn’t still consider it portable, so it comes down to how small you want your breathing exerciser to be.

It features 3 different chambers and each chamber has a ball of a different color. As you breathe out into the tube, the balls should rise. How many of the balls rise and how far within the chamber they rise will indicate the strength of your breath. It comes with an easy-to-understand guide that will help you to measure your breathing accurately.

When it comes to how this device works for exercising your lungs, it is entirely different than our other breathing exerciser recommendations. Instead of providing resistance as you breathe, it gives you a visual of how strong you are exhaling. This allows you to purposefully push your exhales out harder over time to lift more of the balls in the chambers. As you see progress, you will be more encouraged to keep going until you get the results you are after.

It is basically a slower and more natural approach to increase lung capacity and strength. You can also turn the device upside down if you would like to measure and exercise your inhale strength as opposed to your exhale strength.

This also has the benefit of being extremely affordable and is, by far, the least expensive option on our list of recommendations. You should also keep in mind that if you would like to visibly measure your breathing, but you also want the resistance breathing training, that you can purchase this device as well as one of the others to use alongside each other.

This option from Ultrabreathe has a very smooth mouthpiece, while Expand-A-Lung’s is actually textured. The smooth design may be preferable to some for comfort, while the texture on the Expand-A-Lung helps to give your teeth grip to more efficiently hold the piece inside your mouth.

This exerciser is also just a bit bigger than the Expand-A-Lung at just over 5 inches. Although, it is still very compact compared to some of the other options. It is both an inspiratory as well as an expiratory training device.

The resistance settings are fully adjustable allowing you to increase resistance as you increase strength. It, of course, also comes with detailed instructions on what breathing techniques to use for best results. This includes taking a sharp, deep breath in to help build the respiratory muscles involved in inhalation.

This choice is a little more expensive than the Expand-A-Lung and comes in around the middle of the list as far as cost goes. It does have the added benefit of coming with a convenient storage pouch, and you even get to choose what color you’d like it in.