Overheard a coach telling athletes to shut their mouth and only breathe through their nose when running fast to “help them relax.”
Discus.
Overheard a coach telling athletes to shut their mouth and only breathe through their nose when running fast to “help them relax.”
Discus.
Over-“discus”ed topic. Just breathe like it feels natural, which most runners do involuntarily anyway.
iamconfused wrote:
Overheard a coach telling athletes to shut their mouth and only breathe through their nose when running fast to “help them relax.”
Discus.
Well, that coach totally sucks.
some coaches just feel like they need to have something to say.
John Wesley Harding wrote:
iamconfused wrote:
Overheard a coach telling athletes to shut their mouth and only breathe through their nose when running fast to “help them relax.”
Discus.
Well, that coach totally sucks.
Sucks? You mean, like air?
It doesn't really matter. No one ever intentionally changed how they breathe and got faster.
I would argue that this topic is not "over-discussed" relative to the typical LetRun front page topics like politics and conspiracy theories.
I have had to Un--teach this many times as parents, uncles, aunts, etc. try to give tips. I had a kids struggling in workouts and never seeming to get better.... that was until I ran a workout with him and realized he was intentionally trying to breath through his nose, because someone told him that was what he was supposed to do. We dispelled that myth. He went from being a bring up the back end runner 21+ minute XC runner to 18:30 in just a few weeks.
high school xc coach wrote:
some coaches just feel like they need to have something to say.
Yes. 9 times out of 10 I've heard a coach say nonsense is because they feel as a coach they had to have a solution to the athletes problem. So they make bleep up. This past weekend I overheard a coach, the hurdles coach no less, tell an inquiring athlete that the reason his discus throws aren't going up is because he's keeping his hand too flat. He needs to tilt his hand up so it goes up.
It would help if these coaches educated themselves along the way, but many have made a career of BSing their athletes. It stands out the most in throwing events.
B0NER wrote:
I would argue that this topic is not "over-discussed" relative to the typical LetRun front page topics like politics and conspiracy theories.
Agreed. 100%.
It's something that people that don't understand the sport try to tell people. It's kind of like shouting "take bigger steps"
and it's really hard for runners to breath through their masks during workouts so I wouldn't recommend this.
On a related note, what you guys think of belly breathing?
Personally i find it helpful with stitch.
wa2ha wrote:
On a related note, what you guys think of belly breathing?
Personally i find it helpful with stitch.
That is real. Also takes tension away from accessory breathing muscles that happen to be near neck traps shoulders. But teaching it? Not easy.
coachy wrote:
It's something that people that don't understand the sport try to tell people. It's kind of like shouting "take bigger steps"
Exactly. Or parents at a soccer game yelling for the kid the "boot" the ball upfield.
If you're truly interested in the topic of breathing, and more specifically nasal breathing, James Nestor's book, Breathe, is good place to start. James Nestor was on The Joe Rogan Experience awhile ago, so you could opt to listen to that instead of reading the book.
I used to train with a guy who was breathing through his nose in practice and believed that breathing through the mouth would then give him advantage. While interesting in theory, we both never got faster than 1:53 / 800m
MelRnr wrote:
Exactly. Or parents at a soccer game yelling for the kid the "boot" the ball upfield.
OMG yes. You immediately know who doesn't know a damn thing about soccer when some yells "boot it."
they are bored and need something to do/say to sound like they have good insight...alot of these crazy ideas logic starts their. They would be better off running while their athletes are so they remember what its like to be active, training, and the ups and downs that you go through daily
redderthedeader wrote:
MelRnr wrote:
Exactly. Or parents at a soccer game yelling for the kid the "boot" the ball upfield.
OMG yes. You immediately know who doesn't know a damn thing about soccer when some yells "boot it."
and then the roar from the crowd when some kid wildly "boots" it across the field and to the other team LOL.
That's probably the same coach who keeps yelling at them to "stride it out"!
BigTex wrote:
That's probably the same coach who keeps yelling at them to "stride it out"!
You've never seen my daughter run