For most of the pandemic, I saw masks as a necessary evil when going out for my daily 5K run. I'd stick it on if someone was coming the other way down the street, of course, and cross over to the other side or run in the road where possible. That's just good manners in the COVID era. But at all other moments my mask was a potential menace. It felt suffocating, and was forever getting sweaty and gross. I took to running with it catching the wind in one hand, almost flying it like a kite to keep it dry.
But that was before I read up on the latest news from the world of breathing and exercise, spurred by James Nestor's groundbreaking book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. You can read my full story on that science here, but the TL;DR is that you should always aim to breathe slowly through your nose, even while working out, and that a little bit of extra carbon dioxide actually helps your body absorb more oxygen — a counterintuitive but well-established rule known as the Bohr effect. Read more...
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