Jo Wiley suggests you should breathe through your nose and out through your mouth while running. I do this normally of course, but find it very hard when running especially in the cold.
I am in week 6 and doing well except for the breathing.
Jo Wiley suggests you should breathe through your nose and out through your mouth while running. I do this normally of course, but find it very hard when running especially in the cold.
I am in week 6 and doing well except for the breathing.
I have the same issue, worse over the last couple of weeks. I thought it was just me.
Well there’s two of us! 😂 I want to know if it will set me back in the long run ... pardon the pun.
I have just graduated so it shouldn’t affect you. I find the more I try to analyse my breathing and try to breathe through my nose the worse I get. I struggle to breathe through my nose bat the best of times, do what comes naturally.I think Jo’s advice was if you were suffering from stitch one way of getting more oxygen in was to breathe through your nose (I can’t remember it verbatim) she doesn’t mention it on subsequent weeks.
I would breathe whichever way is natural as you have been doing it all your life , why change now 😁
I tend to breathe through my mouth (but did take in a fly on Wednesday 🤮)
Just back from my run and breathed in through the nose a little, but it’s really hard to get enough air when you’re running. So I’ll just keep doing what comes naturally and try a little to do as Jo says!
Yes, I agree !Much easier through your mouth
But why does she say to do it through your nose?
I don't know , there have been many discussions on here about it and lots of varied opinions.However , this is what I tend to do ⬇️
Inhale and exhale using both your nose and mouth combined. Breathing through both the mouth and the nose will keep your breathing steady and engage your diaphragm for maximum oxygen intake. It also allows you to expel carbon dioxide quickly
This post about breathing may help healthunlocked.com/couchto5...
Hmmmm...nose breathing is a debatable issue...I personally can’t do it when I’m running, I have too many other things going on to think about how to get enough oxygen I to my lungs...the one thing I can say about breathing is try and breath from your abdomen rather than your chest...to practice this, lay on your back, put a book on your stomach and the book should go up and down when you breath in and out, this way you can take a longer breath allowing more air I to your lungs...how to get it there, whether it’s through your mouth or nose to me, isn’t important, what is important is that you carry on breathing, we don’t want anyone flaking out worrying about breathing techniques! 😝
It's probably more important that your breathing is relaxed and unforced than overthinking it. It will eventually find a natural rhythm. If you're puffing like a steam train you're overdoing things. You should be working at a level that you could chat normally with someone running alongside you.
Belly/diaphragmatic breathing, as Mummycav describes, is a good technique to learn. If you do any singing it'll help with that too.
Just breathe however you can. I couldn’t do what they advised either.