NickW wrote:Ok, am I missing
I've read on other forums (non barefooting ones) that syncing your breathing to your steps isn't actually a smart idea. It limits you. Its one thing if it is such a habit that you can't break it and you just happen to notice it, but trying to do it seems silly. As a species we don't have to, so why bother unless it comes naturally. Personally my cadence changes alot even at a single pace over a similar terrain. I just get sick of running the same cadenc all the time. I like the varation and this appears to make my muscles happy too. My breathing tends to automatically sync to my music, which my speed then tends to naturally down or speed up based on the breathing, but overthinking it isn't going to help your running its just going to keep from relaxing. I have to agree that the cadence debate is overrated, as is thinking about your breathing too much. In my opinion the far far more important thing is to relax and know I couldn't relax thinking about all these things. It wasn't until I learned to relax that I had any understanding of what they meant by bend your knees more, its when I noticed my cadence naturally speeding up, being able to run over terrible surfaces became easier ect..... Basically everything everybody thinks about came very naturally once I learned to keep myself completely and utterly relaxed.
NickW said:
I've read on other forums (non barefooting ones) that syncing your breathing to your steps isn't actually a smart idea. It limits you. Its one thing if it is such a habit that you can't break it and you just happen to notice it, but trying to do it seems silly. As a species we don't have to, so why bother unless it comes naturally. Personally my cadence changes alot even at a single pace over a similar terrain. I just get sick of running the same cadenc all the time. I like the varation and this appears to make my muscles happy too. My breathing tends to automatically sync to my music, which my speed then tends to naturally down or speed up based on the breathing, but overthinking it isn't going to help your running its just going to keep from relaxing. I have to agree that the cadence debate is overrated, as is thinking about your breathing too much. In my opinion the far far more important thing is to relax and know I couldn't relax thinking about all these things. It wasn't until I learned to relax that I had any understanding of what they meant by bend your knees more, its when I noticed my cadence naturally speeding up, being able to run over terrible surfaces became easier ect..... Basically everything everybody thinks about came very naturally once I learned to keep myself completely and utterly relaxed.
