Training With Dr.Romanov: BREATHING Archives

BREATHING

BREATHING IN TRIATHLON SWIMMING
Breathing in triathlon swimming is different from any other type of swimming for two major reasons - 1. nowhere else will you go head to head with hundreds of other athletes and 2. do that in an open water. How hectic can a swim start get? Let's put it that way. A stronger swimmer that happens to be behind you will swim right over you if he has to. You might and most likely will get hit by someone’s hands flying through the air. You might get a bruise or two, ingest some seawater and get pushed around a bit.... [Continue reading...]

BREATHING IN SWIMMING
Breathing technique is part of the overall sport specific technique in any sport. That applies also to any other form of human movement. There is an optimal way to breathe during any activity, though in some it doesn't really matter, where in others it's crucial to overall performance. Breathing technique in swimming is of paramount importance because it can directly and significantly affect athletes performance. Just as with the swimming technique itself however, there is no consensus on the breathing technique for swimming. What we have are several approaches that bring in various logic behind them, and we have experiential... [Continue reading...]

BREATHING IN RUNNING - HOW TO...
This must be a very important question for everyone who is running, if we are returning to this topic again. The question of how to breath is not new at all and appeared in works of Plato and Galen, Avicenna and later E. Kant. They emphasized the importance of breathing for human health and particularly the way of breathing. The act of breathing was an object of intense attention in philosophy of yoga, in religions of ancient Egypt and in Buddhism. We have grasped something from the past; modern science has tried to understand the essence of breathing for our... [Continue reading...]

BREATHING IN RUNNING
How to breathe in running? Deep…Smooth…and Quiet! I am just kidding. In spite of the fact that breathing is a "natural" and "automatically maintained" process in living organisms, it would be a mistake to think that we know "how" to breathe. It is a question for many athletes, elite and recreational runners and just for normal people. It is really important, I would say, vitally important for our existence. Breathing is a question of life and death. Just a 2-3 minute break in our breathing function could cost us our life. And most of us are well aware of that.... [Continue reading...]