Are We Breathing Correctly

Breathing is very important to the time to do sport, since it is through the oxygen of where we got the immediate energy that the body needs, for it is through this occurs the combustion of fats in the body to produce energy. It is true that the breathing is an involuntary reflex and act, but in the sport should be more controlled, since the requirements are different. To do this we need to know if our breathing is correct or not.
If they ask us how we breathe, all answer properly, as the vast majority of us know the technical and mechanical, but when it comes to practicing sport to many we are forgotten to follow adequately the respiratory process correct. Despite being a reflex act, there is a certain amount of technique to make it much better. It is necessary before anything that we know if our breath is correct to improve it if necessary.
Types of breathing
in the first place we will put special emphasis on the types of breathing that there is. We are going to highlight the abdominal breathing, which is made from the lowest part of the lungs and that allows greater air reception by the body. It is the best breathing, and is the one that most of us tend to lose with the passing of time and bad habits, avoiding that the reception of air is more reduced.
The chest is another type of breathing. This way to get air is performed above that the abdominal, so that the reception of oxygen is not so high. This type of breathing is that we're doing the vast majority of us, thus reducing the performance by lack of oxygen. At last we have the clavicular breathing, which is the most superficial and in which the receipt of oxygen is much smaller.
Know what type of breathing we have
now, for sure we wonder how we can know what type of breathing we have. Suffice it to a simple test that we are to ourselves. To do this simply need a book. We place it on the floor and lie face up with the book on the abdominal wall. The right hand place it on the chest. In this position and consciously face expulsion and controlled all the air to perform a deep inspiration and return to expel the air quickly.
Once this test what we have witnessed during their development is if it moves the book or our hand to inspire the air, and is that depending on which of the two parties move we will have one or another type of breathing. If this is the book where it moves, the abdominal breathing will be and therefore optimal, and if this is the hand, it will be chest and we should make this abdominal, the same as if it does not move any of the two parties, as it will be clavicular.
Improve the breathing technique
to improve the breathing technique will be what we will do exercises to re-enlist the proper rhythm of breathing. For this reason we will concentrate on breathing from the base of the lungs, making breathing focuses on the abdominal part. For it we will take the air in a slow and deep, noticing as the air enters the lungs and fills. Expulsion will slowly, to begin again. In this way little by little we will improve the way of breathing, always and when we become conscious of doing so well and in an appropriate manner.