Can't stop breathing hard on runs

run slower.

if you have to think about your breathing, you're running too fast.

cheers.

Cottonshirt wrote:

run slower.

if you have to think about your breathing, you're running too fast.

cheers.

The opposite is true.

Richard Gere in Breathless wrote:

Cottonshirt wrote:

run slower.

if you have to think about your breathing, you're running too fast.

cheers.

The opposite is true.

Both of the above responses are 100% correct.

I agree with you both wrote:

Richard Gere in Breathless wrote:

The opposite is true.

Both of the above responses are 100% correct.

You couldn't be more wrong.

fg109 wrote:

I agree with you both wrote:

Both of the above responses are 100% correct.

You couldn't be more wrong.

You're right as well.

You might have asthma

I agree with you both wrote:

fg109 wrote:

You couldn't be more wrong.

You're right as well.

All of you are wrong.

You should time travel and be born at altitude

Easy pace: 3 steps in, 3 steps out.

Hard pace: 2 steps in, 3 steps out.

All out: 2 steps in, 2 steps out.

As your aerobic capacity increases, your breathing should become less labored. This can take an entire season, but after half a year you should be breathing more smoothly.

Now check out how Edward Cheserek breathes vs. everyone else (starting at around 2:20).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p80mhrd81fA

Out of wrote:

People always tell me, "why don't you breathe lighter?" "if you breathed less heavily you'd run so much faster" and I don't know how to respond. I struggle to control breathing, and it wastes so much of my energy. I'll take a deep breath, be fine, take another few deep breaths, and then not be fine.

Seems like you may have developed an oxygen dependency.

There's nothing to be done about it. It's due to the higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the air because of the global warming brought about by the environmental abuses of giant corporations..........................like Nike.

count count wrote:

Easy pace: 3 steps in, 3 steps out.

Hard pace: 2 steps in, 3 steps out.

All out: 2 steps in, 2 steps out.

Seems a bit hard to me.

Proper easy - under vent. threshold, less then 4-in 4-out

Easy/moderate - 4/4 or 3/4

Tempo - 3/4 or 3/3

Intervals - 3/3 or 2/3

I struggle with 2/2 as it feels like hyperventilating.

Am I breathing backwards? I go in/out 5/4, 4/3, 3/2. I don't last long at 2/2.

Slow in WV wrote:

Am I breathing backwards? I go in/out 5/4, 4/3, 3/2. I don't last long at 2/2.

I think some people inhale longer than they exhale and others like me are vice versa.

work on the breathing part and also on specific workouts that will expand your pulmonary capacity. Also, be sure to warm up adaquately.

First, make sure you are not restricting your airways. A recent article about vocal cord restrictions comes to mind, as does all the online articles about breathing deep with the diaphragm. Look 'em up, try 'em out.

Then running intervals or hill sprints (or both) and the like and you will probably find that when you return to a more usual running pace, it is more effortless and your body has learned efficient ways to accomodate it.

Also, be on the lookout for medical issues like allergies, asthma, COPD, or anything else.

Also if you are doing intervals or harder runs and you still want to get good efforts do them starting out much slower and slowly get faster in workout or runs until you get to the point where your breathing starts to get out of control. Then pull back. You want to keep your breathing on the right side of that threshold