Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalaya
It is much better to breathe through your nose, and then exhale through your mouth. If you take breathes through your mouth it promotes shallow breathing, which will definitely make things more erratic and difficult for you.
The key is deep, steady, controlled breathes. Breathing through your nose and out your mouth promotes this. Once you start you will see a huge difference!
|
Oh cool! I will have to try this! Thanks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Snark
The moment I actually think about my breathing or what I'm doing with my hands while I'm running my whole world falls apart and I become a wheezing, uncoordinated, flappy-armed weirdo.
I'm in the "Ignore Your Breathing and Your Hands and Just DO IT" school of running. I'm the Dean of the School actually.
|
Haha!! flappy-armed weirdo! that's so funny! I totally get what you mean! You know what I've been doing lately? I will be running, listening to music, and then I will glance at the treadmill and see I've burned only 20 cals and then I will feel SO exhausted like all of a sudden!! It's ridiculous! then I will tell myself omg you're tired, time to walk blah blah...end of run. it's so bad!!
So now I've made it a point to not stare at it! lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wannabeskinny
Haha! That's funny but when you have thought about it did you notice whether or not you were breathing through your nose? I'm very aware of my breathing because this is aerobic exercise after all which by definition means to move oxygen through your body. So it is very important how you breathe
|
I feel like my mouth is always partially open when I'm running ( that sounds weird to me now haha) but it seems easier? I feel like my nose doesn't have enough hair going in and out so I need to breathe through my mouth, must be in my head!