Do you ride with your mouth open?
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if you want more oxygen, I've read, you can exhale thru pursed lips. this increases the pressure in the lungs alveoli, where osmosis takes place. I think it works when I do it
for bugs I use a head net
for a while it would slide back
so I made a hole for my helmet cam. aside from allowing the camera to mount, it also helped keep the net in place. when I don't need it I can roll it up, above my face
now that I use a camera mount for a gopro on the front of my helmet, I have to figure out some other way to keep using the net
if you want more oxygen, I've read, you can exhale thru pursed lips. this increases the pressure in the lungs alveoli, where osmosis takes place. I think it works when I do it
for bugs I use a head net
for a while it would slide back
so I made a hole for my helmet cam. aside from allowing the camera to mount, it also helped keep the net in place. when I don't need it I can roll it up, above my face
now that I use a camera mount for a gopro on the front of my helmet, I have to figure out some other way to keep using the net
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The scientific literature suggests that nose breathing has 35% less capacity to move air into the lungs than mouth breathing, but that nose breathing "training" reportedly may decrease that difference to as low as 11%.
The exercise intensity above which which people start breathing through their mouths varies, but the average seems to be around 65-70% of max. heart rate.
The exercise intensity above which which people start breathing through their mouths varies, but the average seems to be around 65-70% of max. heart rate.
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The scientific literature suggests that nose breathing has 35% less capacity to move air into the lungs than mouth breathing, but that nose breathing "training" reportedly may decrease that difference to as low as 11%.
The exercise intensity above which which people start breathing through their mouths varies, but the average seems to be around 65-70% of max. heart rate.
The exercise intensity above which which people start breathing through their mouths varies, but the average seems to be around 65-70% of max. heart rate.
Basically anyone who says you don't need to breathe through your mouth until you reach X level of exertion is full of crap.
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What's being lost when looking purely at air volume is that the quality of that air is worse when not filtered, and that you lose out on the effect of vasodilation from the NO produced.
I get a really runny nose when cycling, but oddly it doesn't get any worse if I just nose breathe. Only when my nose is very congested do I have a problem.
Anyway, more science tidbits from Dr. Stephen Seiler:
I get a really runny nose when cycling, but oddly it doesn't get any worse if I just nose breathe. Only when my nose is very congested do I have a problem.
Anyway, more science tidbits from Dr. Stephen Seiler:
With training, people can get quite good at nose breathing, and they can achieve pretty darn high intensities just with not opening their mouth.
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I get enough protein in my diet without having to add the six-legged variety. I nearly inhaled a firefly yesterday, luckily, it got stuck on the bottom of my tongue, and I was able to spit it out. Fireflies taste like the ink from Bic pens. Where I live there are clouds of bugs at certain times of the day, glasses and proper breathing technique keep them outside my body.
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Noses are not the same. Some are longer and narrower and thus have smaller capacity. If you combine that with differences in lung size, what you have to figure different people have to start mouth breathing at different levels of exertion. Add to that the fact that some riders like me tend to get runny noses, which limits nasal air throughput, and even the same person on different days may need to mouth-breathe at different levels of exertion.
Basically anyone who says you don't need to breathe through your mouth until you reach X level of exertion is full of crap.
Basically anyone who says you don't need to breathe through your mouth until you reach X level of exertion is full of crap.
BTW, I'm pretty sure the reason my nose gets runny when I'm riding is that the mucus gets loosened up to facilitate breathing. It's when the mucus is dry that things get clogged.
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Bugs in your teeth is a sign of a good ride...
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You missed out on the boost of gnat power.
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Had no interest in the thread but this morning something hit my teeth, I spit it out but not before it stung me on the tongue. Epi shot and 5 hours in ER. If only I had had my mouth closed!
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Sorrah ahbaht thah sthang on that tungh (said in swollen tongue).
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Liked for sympathy. That sounds awful.
I got stung on the lip by a bee a couple years ago and thought I was going to be miserable for a while. However, I have always suspected that I have almost no reaction to bee venom. Pretty much confirmed it. I could feel it swelling for about 15 minutes, but basically it returned to normal within the hour and pretty much all pain gone. Guess I've got a lucky mutated gene somewhere. Either that, or I just encounter some weak-ass bees.
I hope you feel better.
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I ate a bug on Tuesday. It was not delicious and I did not notice any increase in power. Was stung on the tongue when I was a ute. It sucked.
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Eating bees is not a recommended dietary supplement...
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When I was a kid, I had two incidents in which a flying ant flew into my ear. The sensation of a live bug flapping around inside of year is just about as pleasant as it "sounds", BTW, the only way to get them out that I know of is to drown them inside of the ear using a bulb syringe..
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Poor puppy. Last time I got stung in the face it was under my moustache and my lip swelled and hung over like a Simpsons character. There was a hard lump there for months. I never saw the insect that did it.
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When I was a kid, I had two incidents in which a flying ant flew into my ear. The sensation of a live bug flapping around inside of year is just about as pleasant as it "sounds", BTW, the only way to get them out that I know of is to drown them inside of the ear using a bulb syringe..