Any One Of These Techniques ll Make It Easier To Breathe While Running Erin Bunch
In the ordinary course of a day, most of us don’t give much thought to the ins and outs (literally) of our breathing. Running, however, can put a greater emphasis on the otherwise unremarkable (but, remarkable!) process due to the fact that it can sometimes cause breathing to become difficult or labored.
In a nutshell, the breathing process works like this: When you inhale, you’re filling the air sacs inside your lungs, which then fill the small sacs (a.k.a. alveoli) where that incoming oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide in the blood at the cellular level, explains William Roberts, MD, director of the Sports Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota Medical School.