Keep your leg at a 90-degree angle and your knee and foot at the same height. Avoid rotating your spine at any point during the exercise. Pause at the top for two seconds before lowering your knee to the floor. Repeat 15-25 times before performing the exercises with the other leg.
Inhaled air is about 20-percent oxygen. Exhaled air is about 15-percent oxygen. Therefore, about 5-percent of breathed air is consumed in each breath. That air is converted to carbon dioxide. So, as far as how much air is actually used, human beings take in about 550 liters of pure oxygen per day. A person who is exercising uses a lot more oxygen than that.
Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System. NOTE: This is the Consumer Version. The average person who is moderately active during the daytime breathes about 20,000 liters (more than 5,000 gallons) of air every 24 hours. Inevitably, this air (which would weigh more than 20 kilograms [44 pounds]) contains potentially harmful particles and gases.