Relearning to Breathe

As I noted in yesterday’s post about learning to breathe differently, I’m leaning into a different way of thinking about breathing and working on changing old habits to see how The Oxygen Advantage approach affects me. This morning I went for my second nose-breathing run with a similar format like I tried yesterday. I started with a 15-minute walk (all nose breathing), and then I was able to run for 3 minutes with nose breathing before dropping back to walking for a few minutes. That’s longer than the 1:44 I did yesterday for the first round. For the second round, I ran for 5 minutes before dropping back to walking. And then for the third round, I ran 42:30 continuously. During this segment I also incorporated 10 breath holds with about 12 paces each time. For the last mile, I pushed myself to run a little faster. My pacing was still slower than I could do with mouth breathing, but I’m getting used to running while nose breathing. After running for 30 minutes straight with nose breathing during the final segment of yesterday’s run, I thought that maybe I could do that right away upon starting today… like maybe my body just needed to learn the right breathing rhythm. Apparently there’s more to this though since it was still challenging starting out today, so that’s why I only made it 3 minutes the first round. It was better than yesterday at least. Doing a 3-minute round followed by a 5-minute round worked well for...
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