POWERbreathe is soon to launch the Kinetic series, the latest in their line of inspiratory muscle training devices, and the world's first portable electronic inspiratory muscle training and monitoring system. In the late 1990s, Professor Alison McConnell of Brunel University recognized that the inspiratory or breathing muscles, like any other muscle in the body, were subject to fatigue and therefore limiters of exercise performance. She found however, that the breathing muscles responded well to resistance training, quickly increasing their strength, power and endurance. Based on her positive research findings, Professor McConnell created a company to commercialize her POWERbreathe inspiratory muscle training device and launched the first Classic series in 2001.