How can i get better with my breathing when it come to long bike rides..

Question

How can i get better with my breathing when it come to long bike rides..

Answer 1

I really don't think it's too complicated and you don't need any special techniques that I'm aware of. The more oxygen you provide for your muscles the more efficiently they function and if I'm using my aerobars I usually cycle with my mouth open and suck in as much air as possible. It works for me.

Answer 2

Excellent question, and an important one.

Many years ago on a flight to the west coast I met a young man who had just won the world 500 Supercross championship and when he learned I was a bicyclist he told me that a great deal of his off-season training was bicycling, and that John Howard, the famous early triathlete, was his fitness coach.

He introduced me to a book by Ian Jackson called Breath Play.  It's about what some people call grunt breathing, or upside down breathing.  It helped my bicycling performance tremendously, and I still use it.  One of my buddies used to say that he could always here me passing him on our training rides because of the sound I made when I accelerated -- he called me locomotive breath.  It's about the emphasis on expelling carbon dioxide, on breathing out.

I still have Jackson's book.  Don't know if it still in print, but take a look at his web site below.

I hope this helps you.

Ben

Answer 3

in through the nose out through the mouth..

Answer 4

do some jogging everyday, some bike riding everyday. try to pace your breathing, use deep breaths, breath in through your nose and out your mouth, drink lots of water.

Answer 5

It will improve with time.  The rule of thumb is to still be able to talk but not sing.  If you are breathing too hard just back off a little.