Is it good to breathe through your nose while running?

Many people breathe through their noses while running. Breathing through the nose is a very good way of breathing. It can effectively help us keep some harmful substances out of the body. Breathing through the nose while running can also effectively help us prevent stomach pains. Breathing through the mouth may increase our risk of stomach pains. Let's find out whether breathing through the nose while running is good or not.

1. Breathe through your nose and mouth at the same time when running. This will allow the cold air inhaled through the mouth and the warm air warmed up through the nose to mix in the trachea, raising the temperature of the gas entering the body, reducing the stimulation of cold air to the internal organs, and preventing diaphragm spasm.

Pay attention to the breathing method and rhythm: breathe in mainly through the nose and supplemented by the mouth; breathe out mainly through the mouth and supplemented by the nose. People who participate in long-distance running exercises for a long time should inhale after four steps and exhale after four steps. This can increase the depth of breathing and promote cardiopulmonary function. For people who have just started long-distance running, the breathing rhythm should be inhale every two steps and exhale every three steps. The breathing rhythm can then be adjusted according to their own situation.

2. It is impossible to breathe only through your nose when running at a certain intensity. If you can breathe only through your nose, it means that you have not reached the reasonable running intensity at all.

Jogging is an aerobic exercise. You breathe through your mouth. You should learn to control your breathing rhythm properly and take deep breaths at a low frequency as much as possible.

Professional athletes can breathe through both their nose and mouth in order to achieve maximum oxygen uptake.

Breathing through the nose while running is a very good choice, which can effectively help us get rid of many kinds of unnecessary injuries. At the same time, we must master the scientific breathing rhythm, and we must breathe evenly and rhythmically. Never breathe blindly, otherwise the harm to ourselves will be very great.