How To Breathe When Running

In this video, I'm going to talk to you about how to breathe when running. Now, breathing is really, really important, your body needs oxygen to work correctly, for muscles to contract and to get power. So, no matter if you're sprinting or running long distance, having correct breathing is key to your success.

First of all, we take sprinting. When you're sprinting for, let's say a hundred meters or maybe 5, 6, 7 seconds, you don't actually need oxygen. Your body doesn't use oxygen for sprinting, so you can actually hold your breath.

If you do want to breathe while sprinting, it's a good idea to breathe in, through your nose and mouth, and out through your mouth. Do it in a rhythm, maybe every 2-3 seconds. So, breathing oxygen in through your nose and mouth, and out, the air pushes out through your mouth.

You can't breathe out through your nose because the airways aren't big enough, so you have to use your mouth and expel all the air. Next, I'm going to talk about running longer distances. When you're running longer distances, it's really important to get into a rhythm, so you'd actually breathe a bit like you would if you were talking, in and out through your nose.

Very calm, very relaxed. When you're running for an hour, two hours plus, it's too exhausting to push all the air out. It's a very soft, very quiet, very controlled, in through your nose and out through your nose.

When you're running, quite often when you get tired, we kind of overdo our breathing, we start breathing really heavily because our body wants more oxygen in, however, we tend to overplay it. So, when you are getting tired and you feel yourself kind of hyperventilating nearly, try and focus on the breathing, control it, in through your nose, out through your mouth as much as you can, because that will help your body recover quicker and you'll be able to get on with your running. So, when jogging, very relaxed, breathing in through your nose, out through your nose, and you should be able to talk.

Next, sprinting. So, when sprinting, I was getting oxygen in my nose and mouth then I was expelling it every couple of seconds, with a hard breathe out. And they're just some tips on how to breathe when running. .