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Except for when you’re performing any hard aerobic exercise, at which point you have to breathe through your mouth.
by iamacyborg 4y ago
Except for when you’re performing any hard aerobic exercise, at which point you have to breathe through your mouth.
- jonsen 4y agoWe are not designed for hard aerobic exercise.
- iamacyborg 4y agoAnd yet we’re remarkably good at it
- gherkinnn 4y agoWhat makes you believe that a species that evolved from persistence hunters is “not designed” for hard aerobic exercise?
- twojacobtwo 4y agoIsn't the idea behind persistence hunting that it's long-term, low effort aerobic exercise? That is, our ancestors were good at maintaining low-speed pursuit for long distances, but not so great at sprinting after prey.
- gherkinnn 4y agoSprinting is anaerobic.
- bsza 4y ago...and when you're intubated with an NG tube.
- balaji1 4y agoSomeone more athletic or fitter than you wouldn’t mouth breath at the level of activity you mouth breath at. Their capacity is higher.
- gherkinnn 4y agoSo? Hard aerobic exercise is hard. A fitter person will just be faster.
- balaji1 4y agowell I just meant it could be an area for improvement. It is possible to work your way to being more capable with just nasal breathing. Or sometimes you just have to be conscious you are mouth breathing and you'll be able to revert to nasal breathing. I didn't say you should never mouth breathe or somehow you are inferior to a super athlete.
- iamacyborg 4y agoHard aerobic exercise is relative, clearly.