I just want to share with you guys, I've been doing Ultimate Breathing Workout exercises for 7 days now and some of the results are blowing my mind. Here's my results with the sustaining ssss exercise:

Day 1: 38s
Day 2: 50s
Day 3: 51s
Day 4: 52s
Day 5: 53s
Day 6: 55s
Day 7: 1 min 13s

In a week I have almost doubled my time with the exercise, wow. Im amazed :) And the jump between day 1 and day 2 is obvious but what about day 6 and day 7? Every time I really did the absolute best I could, even the first day. Today is day 7 and I had to try that over and over again to believe it and I can get that time every time I try. And it even feels better than the Day 1, I don't tense my throat or anything to control the air. I just keep my ribs expanded and feel the steady tension in the back and stomach muscles.

Another thing worth mentioning is that I can hold my breath with full lungs almost half minute longer now :) I guess the trick for me is that I've been doing physical workout (running and gym) a lot since last summer and it really pays off. I just never worked on my breath control until now and that's why I get these huge leaps in results as I'm learning the technique

You are good :) My first attempt at SSS seemed to be 21 seconds and my other results were poor too. I didn't do aerobic exercises and don't really do these days either. But by doing UBW I soon developed much better breath control (not as fast as you though). I should start UBW again :)

First time I tried UBW last May or June or something (that's when I bought RYV and became seriously ambitious about singing) and I sucked at it and almost immediately gave up and forgot about it. Now that I'm in a good physical condition and have stronger lungs from running a lot it all works so much better and I like it now :) But I sucked back then!

Funny thing is that my biggest motivator to do physical workout is the idea that it will improve me as a singer :) There are tons of other benefits too of course, life is simply better now! Everything falls into place so much better when I do some workout every day. Well not every day if I have a bad hangover or something but almost every day x)

AWESOME!!!!!!!

My gains have been great too, and I'm just on day 3.

I tweaked the whole workout a bit though, and the better I am, it takes even MORE time. :D

The first thing I did was to track the counting/alphabet both in my native language and in english.

The second tip, which might help you out more - in the last sustain exercise, I made it 15x bigger than it actually is.

I'm doing ALL the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) instead of just "aah", and I'm tracking each of those vowels in three octaves to improve my sustain and all the weak points.

So let's say that my note is B.

(first octave) A- 23s
(second octave)A- 27s
(third octave)A- 40s

and etc. for E, I, O, U.

Hope it was helpful.

After 2 weeks:
Ssss _ 1:35
Hold with breathin _ 3:30
Hold without breathin _ 2:46
Ssss out _ 9x