How To Breathe While Running : It's a Secret

thanks man, i'm kinda new to breathing

Thanks man just took my first breath

I am new to running. Every time I've tried to get into it I find that I get out of breath after ten minutes even though my legs feel completely fine. Yesterday I tried to run for the first time in almost a year and I focused on my breathing during my run. I was trying to breath similarly to how I breath during a meditation session. To my surprise I managed to run for half an hour and the reason I stopped was because my legs were tired. So definitely the breathing helped massively in my case!

I had a side stitch THIS week! Almost stopped and called my wife, but I just remembered what my Dad taught me when I was a kid. He said you have to hold it and breathe it out, don't stop. My Dad ran the Boston marathon in 2:42:30 at my age so I just grit my teeth, tried to stay on pace and breathe.

Recently taking up swimming has made a huge difference to my breathing on the runs and cycles. You are more used to waiting for a breath and therefore able to slow it down and take those deep breaths. Or maybe its just me :D

Thank you. I'm so glad you didn't crap on about nose breathing as I keeping coming across on other channels. One thing you touched on and which definitely helped me to improve as a distance runner, and that is to relax and be at peace with myself. The moment you think about the effort, you'll lose focus on staying calm. In my earlier days I'd tense up, clench my fists, have stiff arms and shoulders, which translated to poor breathing habits. Then I taught myself to be a relaxed runner, forget about the effort (just let the run come to you instead of chasing the run), throughout a run I'd ask myself "are you relaxed" and I'd do a mental body check. If I felt I was tense in my shoulders or my arms or any part of my body, I'd be sure to release and relax that part of my body. Now when I run I'm literally in a state of zen. As for my breathing, I've always been a mouth breather and my jaw is relaxed, making sure I belly breath with long deep calm breathing.

About a year ago I started practising breathing from my stomache while running. It sounded like an easy thing to do but it’s really not if you’re not used to it. Now after a year I can say that I’m exactly what you describe, a much more relaxed runner with better stamina etc. Another thing is that I have asthma and it has helped a lot with that too. It’s very easy to get a weasy chest when breathing with you shoulders/chest but stomach breathing prevents that in a much more efficient way. Starting breathing from the stomach is the most rewarding change I’ve ever done in my running and it’s good for everyday life as well. It takes a while to get the hang of it but it’s so worth the effort. Great video! Keep up the good work! Cheers

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Your an inspiration dude! Crazy tempo!!

I’m a national runner from the UK and I have seasonal asthma (winter) , an attack can start for me from anxiety created from the smallest things so focused breathing really helps and this video said pretty much all the techniques I use, well done, good video. 👍👊

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Thanks Richard for your great videos , I love checking in to see your tips and seeing what you are up to . I’m a beginner . Only running for a few months now and trying to get my breathing under control.

Thanks man! I was converting oxygen to CO2 before, now I'm Breathing!!!

I’m currently running, 1 mile a day for the 31 days of May and your keeping me going. Thanks for the advice and videos.

Very good advices! Thank you!

Since I was a kid my dad instilled breathing techniques in my running. 4 count in 4 count out is my go to.

Very good video Richard, thanks!

If you have a strong aerobic ability breathing won't be hard. So build up a good base and just keep going. It's never easy getting started but if you keep going back and running day after day the body will adapt - it's a beautiful thing

Breathing becomes easier when you have built up a great base of mileage, run at an aerobic pace, which is (180 - age = max heart rate bpm to run aerobic). If your heart rate is higher then slow down and continue untill you get fitter. The heart does not recognise running it only understands the oxygen required to pump the blood around the body and by building the aerobic base your breathing gets easier because your heart rate reduces by beats per minute, then start to introduce speed work, you will then see the fitter you get the easier breathing becomes and when you race your body can cope with the pain of pushing for that pb. It's worked for me and I run a 5km at 17mins at age 55. 😉

I will follow this tip, in my runs I had already noticed that short breathing makes the whole thing inharmonious. When I recognize it and calm my breath, the whole process becomes better. Great videos, I like to follow you and of course Rachel :-)