Sigh. I have the cardio system of a 70 year old. Totally my fault for never running or spinning or anything past the age of 20, and I'm paying for it now... get winded for 10 minutes after walking up two flights of stairs. Well I just put my new running shoes to the test and tried a few blocks - it is HARD! I had to stop mid-way, wheezing and dizzy, couldn't breathe... no doubt asthma creeping its way back into my life. And I thought I was all done with that.
When I was younger (up to about 5 years old), I had debilitating asthma attacks. My parents brought me blue and inert to the emergency room on more than one occasion, and I remember weekly injections to cure the disease, the noxema mist spray in my room humidier... After we moved out of the polluted city to the countryside, I got a whole lot better. So much, in fact, that until recently I forgot I ever had the damn attacks in the first place.
Just took a shot of ventilin from bf's pump, and will now carry it with me when I go running. If you can consider 10 city blocks "running" - totally pathetic, I know. But if I don't start now, it won't get better by itself so i need to keep the mantra "you can do it, girl!!" high-five?
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Slowly.... do it slowly. A slow pace will make you do it longer, working the kinks out and will warm your body up too. The lungs are the last thing to warm up but if you do it long enough they will start feeling , really, really good. Make sure the breath is an even IN OUT IN OUT or variations are good too such as IN IN OUT IN IN OUT. Know what i mean? So remember, warm up the body well, (15minutes) it's got to be done in a slow manner and evenly repetitive with little variants to get the articulations comfortable. Otherwise, it will, as you mention, burn. If you need use a little muscle cream beforehand do so. And remember to stretch before, during and after the workout. You'll realize the enjoyment to be had when one's body is heated up. Good luck!
...then you'll want to do it again and again.
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