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Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enoug
by someperson 16y ago
Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit.
By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?
- mkramlich 16y agoie. go running. do jumping jacks. get your heart and lung going. push yourself beyond what your cardio system needs to do under normal/static conditions.
- yogipatel 16y agoSomething else — the feeling you get after some kind of strenuous activity that raises your heart/breathing rate. Running, for example. What you're referring to is getting the wind knocked out of you.
- dagw 16y agoFor what it's worth I've never heard what you describe called "winded". To me winded means getting the wind knocked out of you. I wonder if it is a regional thing.
- zizee 16y agoIn .au "getting winded" means getting the wind knocked out of you.
- omnigoat 16y agoIt also means running out of breath from doing too much. Curiously, in my karate dojo, we are taught to learn to fight whilst being winded - as in, having the wind knocked out of you.
- zizee 16y agoInteresting. I always think Australia's as being pretty culturally homogeneous, but obviously that isn't really true when you look really closely. I am curious to know what part of .au did you grow up in / live in? I grew up in Tasmania, lived for 10 years in Melbourne, and the last 5 in south east Queensland.
- cabalamat 16y ago> I wonder if it is a regional thing. It is.
- bpyne 16y agoIn the northeast of the US, getting winded is breathing heavily from exertion. It implies reaching your max exertion point. I would think the rest of the US uses it the same way, just based on talking with friends throughout the country. I'm not sure if our brethren to the north use it the same way.
- enjo 16y agoSame in the south and midwest... I've never heard the other interpretation at all:)
- jpr 16y agoI think he means more along the lines of "exhausted from exercise".
- IDisposableHero 16y agoThey almost certainly don't mean "punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment", but rather "exercise (e.g. run) hard enough to lose your breath for a moment"
- brown9-2 16y agoWhy are people downvoting legit questions?