Breathing ?an Important Factor in Fitness

Title:Breathing ?an Important Factor in FitnessWord Count:548Summary:With the exception ?probably the only one ?of pearl gatherers, who dive without anyautonomous equipment, breathing counts in all sports ?as well as in fitness. Each sport branchhas imposed its own breathing style ?according to efficiency, effort timing, meteorologicalconditions etc.Keywords:fitness,exercise,anerobic, aerobic,sports,health

Article Body:With the exception ?probably the only one ?of pearl gatherers, who dive without anyautonomous equipment, breathing counts in all sports ?as well as in fitness. Each sport branchhas imposed its own breathing style ?according to efficiency, effort timing, meteorologicalconditions etc.If we take breathing as a taxonomic criterion, sports can be divided in two big groups:1. The first one includes all the sports that use the technique of respiratory stop or blocking. Themost typical among these are force sports such as athletic weight throwing, weightlifting, bodybuilding, gymnastics etc. In short, we might say that here the anaerobic extreme isconcerned ?the one which imposes apnea (blocking the thorax and respiration). The mainadvantage of diaphragm blocking is the rising, for the moment, of the explosive force of thesportsman. A rise in execution speed for maximum force efforts has also been observed. Theclassic example is the snatch of weightlifting in which force and speed are simultaneouslyimplied on the basis of respiratory blocking.This respiratory blocking, inevitable in the above-mentioned sports, has also somedisadvantages. Among these we could mention high pressure values in the thorax, abdomen andskull, high pressure on blood vessels with low feed-back through the veins etc. Thus, due to therising of pressure inside the eyes the aggravation of previous short-sightedness is possible. Also,in the inferior limbs, varicose veins can either appear or worsen. Effort in exclusively anaerobicconditions increases rigidity both in the blood vessels and in the muscles.2. The second big group is the one of sports that do not use respiratory stop. Here we enter therealm of purely aerobic effort. The typical examples are running races, swimming, cycling etc. -generally efforts on long and very long distances. In these events the muscular force implied islittle - medium at most - the stress affecting the cardiovascular component and leading toincreased cardiac frequency and pulmonary ventilation.There is also a third category - mixed sports, both aerobic and anaerobic, in which the twotechniques alternate. This is the case of sports games, contact sports, rhythm breaking inmedium distance running races, etc. In the case of fitness, as both types of effort - aerobic andanaerobic - are present, apnea, as well as effort without respiratory blockage, is used. As far ascorrect respiration is concerned, there is a general rule stating that one should breath out duringthe most difficult part of the movement (the positive or concentric course) and breath in duringcome-back (the negative or eccentric course). Within these courses, we can have or not have arespiratory stop/ blockage. If we have it, it will occur at the critical point of the course.Another breathing rule is the one that takes into consideration the dilatation of the thorax. Inthis case, breathing in is done on the course which allows thorax expansion, and breathing outon the movement that contracts it. In both cases, breathing in is done through the nose - in orderto filter and warm up the air flow and breathing out is done through the mouth in order to befaster and more efficient.It is interesting to know that the 'shouting' that we hear in many weightlifting training sessionsor contests, is actually the sound of forced breathing out.

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