Comments for Set Higher Standards by YogiRavi http://sethigherstandards.com Ramblings from a 30-something ultra-marathoning yogi with a day job. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Increase Your Endurance and Reduce Stress With One Simple Technique by David Friedman http://sethigherstandards.com/2006/12/04/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3252 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:15:53 +0000 http://www.sethigherstandards.com/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3252 Fascinating. I’ve been thinking about whether I could train myself to even do hard interval sessions with only nasal breathing. What you say makes sense to me. I’ll have to experiment with that. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Increase Your Endurance and Reduce Stress With One Simple Technique by Anders Olsson http://sethigherstandards.com/2006/12/04/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3251 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:23:29 +0000 http://www.sethigherstandards.com/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3251 Looking forward to hear more about your experience.

My experience with nose-breathing when doing intense work is that a lot of it is mental – that we think we cannot do it because we just need all that air. When I finally tried high intentsity, before long I was able to do interval-training with 100% nose-breathing.

I believe that we with nose-breathing replaces quantity with quality, so that the body more efficiently can use the oxygen inhaled. Thereby we can reduce the amount of air we’re breathing.

When we inhale through the mouth the airways get filled with cold, dry air filled with bacteria. This leads to inflammation and more mucus in the airways which makes the airways smaller. The smooth muscles in the airways also gets constricted. Nose-breathing prepares the air for the airways by moisturizing and warming the air. The nose also cleanses out many bacteria. If the airways are reduced by 50%, which can easily happen during exercise and vast amount of air is taken in through the mouth, it takes 16 times more energy to move the air in and out through the lungs.

Further, narrow airways leads to an increase of the stress-hormones adrenalin and cortisol. Adrenalin has the effect of opening up the airways, and cortisol is anti-inflammatory. But if we’re exercising with high levels of stress-hormones, our endurance will decrease. One of the reasons is that the body switches to more anaerobic exercise, because during stress we need energy fast. Producing energy anaerobically (without oxygen) is up to 6 times faster than producing energy aerobically (with oxygen). The downside though is that anaerobically only yields 2 ATP per glucosemolecule (plus lactate), whereas oxygen is much more efficient in converting nutrients to energy and yields up to 38 ATP from the same glucomsemolecule.

/Cheers

]]> Comment on Happiness is a Choice by skottalfred http://sethigherstandards.com/2012/01/03/happiness-is-a-choice-2/#comment-3248 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:33:11 +0000 https://ravisraman.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-3248 as a person who suffers from depression i can speak for myself that happiness is something i aspire to.
it’s a goal.
it’s an achievement.
it’s part of the journey.
the incredible highs of my mania are matched (and then some) by the spirals into the darkest depressions. but that’s when i know i have to keep working. moving. like a shark.
it sounds trite and easy, but it works for me (so far).
no meds, just positive thinking when i can. sometimes it’s not genuine and it’s forced.
but that’s the choice i make. to fight it standing up.

]]> Comment on Closing the Gap by Scott GF http://sethigherstandards.com/2012/01/26/closing-the-gap/#comment-3247 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:25:09 +0000 https://ravisraman.wordpress.com/?p=2492#comment-3247 Ravi,
Looking for an update my friend. Hope all is well.

]]> Comment on Increase Your Endurance and Reduce Stress With One Simple Technique by David Friedman http://sethigherstandards.com/2006/12/04/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3246 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:31:50 +0000 http://www.sethigherstandards.com/increase-your-endurance-and-reduce-stress-with-one-simple-technique/#comment-3246 I am a 50-year old distance runner who has been running for 37 years. Over the past couple of years, I’ve experimented quite a bit with nasal breathing, with great success. Today, I do all of my runs (other than track workouts or shorter races) exclusively breathing through my nose. I run just as fast, and probably faster than I would have breathing through my nose, so I don’t seen any diminished performance at all. I feel much more comfortable, and stay much more relaxed, physically and psychologically. In fact, since I sometimes struggle with asthma, the nose breathing helps me to open up my airways and keep them more relaxed.

I took a little while to get used to this, but not too long, and is certainly well worth the effort. At this point, it’s second nature for me. When I do an intense track workout, I have a sense that I need all the oxygen I can get, so I begin to employ mouth breathing. I’m curious, though, to test this more and see if, in fact, I can actually do a fast intense workout only breathing through my nose. I’ll post here with the results as I experiment.

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]]> Comment on Happiness is a Choice by lisa blair http://sethigherstandards.com/2012/01/03/happiness-is-a-choice-2/#comment-3185 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:01:32 +0000 https://ravisraman.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-3185 Actually Ravi, for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from chronic clinical depression happiness is not always a choice. These people suffer from chemical imbalances in the brain which can make it hard for them to experience any positive feelings during an episode. Only part of it is cognitive/behavioral. They also did not choose to have these different types of depression. Saying you can choose feelings at all times is really invalidating to these individuals and further stigmatizes them.

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