How To Breathe When Running

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how perfectly in sync they are at 1:34

I did a high intensity run yesterday and experimented with 2 breaths in and one longer breath out. Dropped 20secs per KM from my last attempt

All the running channel presenters could have been Blue Peter presenters.

In through the nose, and out through the mouth is how I do it when I run! Definitely helps to keep my HR low during my Z2/long runs.

This video is super helpful! I've been having trouble breathing efficiently during my long distance runs and tend to get stitches from a zone 3 run. I mainly mouth breathe and the interval gets shorter as the run gets longer. I've gotta try breathing in through the nose and breathing out through the mouth with long intervals vs. short 4 breaths in and out.

With the weather changing rapidly in my area, in the half I ran last weekend breathing was actually a huge focus for me (less so than my time goal even) as I have an upcoming full marathon in the middle of October. It’s amazing how the most subtle changes can drastically affect how you’re feeling at the finish line!

As far as changing the count goes...I've adopted "3/2" breathing With 2/2 or 3/3 breathing your always starting your breath on the same foot strike. Your always initiating the inhale when your left foot strikes and your exhale when your right foot strikes. With 3/2 breathing this alternates and creates a balance. Made sense when someone explained it to me so I tried it. Took a few runs to get used to...

I have been using nasal breathing during my longer runs ( 2 hr or more). It takes time to adapt. (3 months to 6 months). Body automatically creates inhale and exhale sync & we cannot judge it after one go. I suggest trying with little water in your mouth instead of taping your mouth.

After learning everything in the Professor Hubermans podcast about breathing. I realize I lack the ability to breathe through my nose very well and I use a nasal dilator now to help. If you can breathe through your nose it is absolutely better for numerous reasons not just hr.

I'm an in through the nose out through the mouth person. secondary benefits, I don't go through as much water. It keeps me a little more honest on the hotter days, I figure if I start to feel like I am not getting enough air through my nose I am probably pushing the pace a little too much for the conditions. It's never 100% through the nose, I do have to spit out bugs once in a while. Usually the tiny ones that like to swarm on the shady side of the transition from sun to shade, you can't see the swarm ahead of time when you are going from sun to shade. Normally I take 2 steps on the inhale, 3 on the exhale.

I was only thinking about this yesterday on my run! Great timing! 😁

Mo risked his ‘stach to improve the running of the viewers! Year-round allergies that induce asthma cause me to mouth-breathe way more than I like. Taking an antihistamine prior doesn’t always help—sometimes it makes me too sleepy, sometimes not, but it’s to keep my nasal passages from almost closing. (Sigh)

For swimming I breathe out through my nose and in through my mouth (which I believe is pretty standard). Running I use nose at low pace and both when I go more quickly.

Very nice study, was there a difference in the pace of running in nose and mouth breathing?

I helped some students making some hardware for running/breathing a few years ago. They had an idea that you should breathe/take steps in a certain rhythm. And they would have hardware that could help you with that. I did a test run with the hardware to measure if it was working.

Oxygen Advantage. Read the book. You'll learn so much. If a mouth breather tries nose breathing like in this test... this is not a test, you need to adapt. It takes time.

Another avenue to practice breathing is using Garmin’s “Breathwork” mode. It’s great for lowering HR as well as improving breathing for running.

With regards to the rhythmic breathing, I like to an even number of steps breathing in, and an odd breathing out (or vice versa). I feel like this helps balance my steps so that I'm not always breathing out hard when the same leg is hitting the ground. As for doing it by count vs. steps, I find it nearly impossible to count in a different cadence than my running cadence while running, and I'd probably get hurt if I tried.

That was an interesting experiment. I think I use both, probably more nose breathing when I run slowly in Z2. The faster I get, the more the mouth gets involved. I would have to repeat the experiment that you just did with a tape and a peg to see how I feel about it and what my HR is doing. As for rhythmic breathing, I do 4/4 on easy runs or even more than that, 5/5 or 6/6; 3/3 for marathon paced runs and 2/3 or 2/2 for threshold and faster runs. It all depends on pace and HR.

Big fan of the content on this channel 👏❤ But up until now I’ve only ever heard the term “Mouth breather” in movies being used as a derogatory term. So I can’t help but have a little chuckle every time you guys mention it in this context 😂 I’m a child I know…