Breathing Tips for a More Effective Aerobic Workout

Would you like to get more healthy benefits from your aerobic workout?  Would you like to burn more fat during your workout?  Would you like to reduce exercise-related fatigue and injury?  Would you like to increase your endurance and stamina?  Would you like your workout to help improve your breathing?

If your answer is "yes" to any or all of these questions, then there is one simple thing you can do.  Don't let yourself become "breathless" during your workout.  We undermine our breathing coordination, burn sugar instead of fat for fuel and become tight and tense, which can promote injury, when we become breathless.

The simplest way to know whether you are exercising too intensely and becoming breathless is to try to speak several sentences out loud while you're working out.  Your workout is no longer "aerobic" if you can't do it without gasping for breath.  It is, or is about to become "anaerobic", which means that it is proceeding without oxygen and you are no longer burning fat for fuel.

Inhaling and exhaling only through your nose is a simple way to ensure that you are working out at a level that will not make you breathless.  If you try this, you will quickly discover, especially at the beginning, that you will have to work at a less intense rate during your workout.  Gradually, your breathing coordination will improve and you will be able to do more and progress more rapidly.

Eventually, you'll have more power and last longer than others who don't know this almost forgotten secret of the Ancient Olympiad.  Breathing through your nose is a great regulator of CO2-to-oxygen ratio, and you actually run internally better on  more CO2 than oxygen.

Excerpt from Don Tolman's FDR Vol 2 pp 255-256.

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