Tuesday, July 27, 2010

How to Breathe Properly While Jogging

I am jogging for the past one year. Some days while jogging I feel relaxed but on some days felt more tired jogging the same distance during the same time frame.When I did some study understood breathing pattern during jogging is more important to make the jogging a healthy one.Below are the few tips that I was able to pick.Planning to follow these tips from tomorrow.Will share my experience after few days of following them.

1) Breathe in through your nose, and out through your mouth. Many people breathe through their mouth the entire workout. Breathing in through your nose signals your body to take deeper breaths, which helps you relax. Relaxing helps you take deeper breaths, which makes jogging easier.

2) Pace your breathing. Breathing in for three or four steps, then breathing out for three or four steps keeps your breathing focused.

3) Try breathing using your stomach. Instead of just expanding your ribcage when you breathe in, try expanding your ribcage, pushing down your diaphragm and expanding your stomach as well. This will allow you to get more air per breath, and can help you relax more.

4) Check your perceived exertion. Are you breathing hard through your entire workout? Would you say that on a scale of one to 10 you are jogging at an eight or above? You might be working in an anaerobic zone, which causes heavy breathing.

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