How To Breathe While Cycling Video

Cycling is a terrific cardio building sport. Learn how to breathe properly when cycling in this video.

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Breath with diaphragm
Breath through nose & mouth
Practice breathing technique

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Kevin Livingston is a former professional cyclist who successfully rode and completed six Tour de France races as a teammate of Lance Armstrong. Kevin now focuses on Training and Coaching through his company, Pedal Hard Training Services in Austin,TX.

KEVIN LIVINGSTON: Hi, I'm Kevin Livingston. Now, we're going to talk about proper breathing technique when cycling. Cyclists breathe from their diaphragm which means they push out the stomach muscles allowing the lungs to drop and expand. Breathing with your rib cage, lifting your rib cage and exhaling waste a lot of energy because there are a lot of muscles throughout your rib cage that have to contract, expand and contract to allow your lungs to inhale, exhale. So the technique you want to learn is breathing with your diaphragm. And what this means, and I swear this is my diaphragm, not my gut, is you want to push out your stomach as you inhale allowing your lungs to drop and expand and then contract to allow exhale. I'm going to breathe through my nose and my mouth and exhale through my mouth. So as I breathe in, I push out my stomach, my diaphragm, allowing my lungs to drop again and expand. And as I breathe out, my diaphragm contracts back in. This is a technique you could practice anywhere whether sitting at your desk during the day or laying down on your bed. A great technique is just gently lay your hands just below your sternum at the top of your abdomen and push out your stomach as you inhale and in as you exhale.

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