The Nasal Breathing Paradox During Exercise
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Copyright: 2024
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Our human anatomy dictates that we should attempt to breathe through our noses whenever possible as a way to preserve our health; yet the vast majority of exercisers breathe through their mouths during exercise. While breathing orally allows for an increase in ventilation, increased work capacity, and initially perceived comfort, doing so also predisposes us to a variety of potential health problems. However, paradoxically, recent research, as well as long-held anecdotal observations in a small number of elite endurance athletes, suggests that humans can adapt to breathing nasally during exercise at all levels of intensity. This is true despite reduced ventilation and without loss in performance ability. Doing so engages the health-protecting conditioning aspects of the nasal anatomy, as well as improving one’s physiological economy. This book systematically addresses the research examining the possibility of adapting to nasal breathing during exercise as well as the health and performance-related implications of such a choice. It further suggests practical approaches based on the author's 19 years of experience breathing nasally as a competitive triathlete, as well as publishing research on the topic himself. The book is intended for those scientists, health professionals, exercisers, and athletes interested in both a better understanding of the topic and/or in implementing such an approach in their exercise program.
Chapter 1 – Introduction – Is Nasal Breathing during Exercise Really Possible?
Chapter 2 - The Anatomical and Physiological Differences and Implications of Breathing Nasally versus Orally during Exercise
Chapter 3 – The Experimental Science directly comparing Nasal and Oral Breathing during Exercise
Chapter 4 – The Potential Effects of Oral versus Nasal Breathing during Exercise on our Health
Chapter 5 – The Potential Effects of Oral versus Nasal Breathing on Exercise Performance
Chapter 6 - Practical Strategies for Implementing Nasal Breathing during Exercise
Dr. Dallam holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the School of Health Science and Human Movement at Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSUP). He has taught a wide variety of classes in exercise physiology, research and statistics, behavior facilitation, sport psychology, kinesiology, biomechanics, management, exercise assessment and prescription, swimming, running and triathlon. He is past chair and an ongoing member of the CSUP Institutional Review Board, as well as being the longtime chair of the CSUP Faculty Compensation Committee. He is also the former inaugural National Teams Coach for USA Triathlon and continued to work for many years with elite U.S. triathletes as a coach, advisor and consultant while at CSUP. Athletes coached directly by Dr. Dallam have included National Elite and Age Group Champions, Olympians, Pan American Games Medalists, World Age Group Champions and the top ranked male triathlete in the world in 2005-2006, Hunter Kemper.
Dr. Dallam has been involved in numerous research studies and the publication of their results at both CSUP and the USOC examining various aspects of triathlon performance and training, diabetes risk factor modification, and the effects of functional movement improvement on running. His primary research interest recently is focused on the capability of human beings to adapt to nasal only breathing during exercise as a way to improve both health and performance.
Dr. Dallam was both the founder and a long-term member of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters applying training principles to triathlon and is the co-author, with Dr. Steven Jonas, of Championship Triathlon Training, published in 2008 by Human Kinetics and Teaching and Coaching Triathlon Successfully, published in 2014 by Coaches Choice; as well as contributing invited chapters to the Complete Triathlon Guide and Triathlon Science, published by Human Kinetics in 2012 and 2013 respectively. He is also the author of The Nasal Breathing Paradox during Exercise, published in 2024 by Innovative Ink – Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. He is regularly sought as a speaker and expert on exercise related topics having provided insights to a broad range of publications and podcasts.
Dr. Dallam has received both the United States Olympic Committee’s Doc Counsilman Science in Coaching award (2004) and the National Elite Coach of the Year award (2005) for triathlon. He has also received all three of CSU-Pueblo’s university-wide awards for teaching (2001), scholarship (2003 and 2021) and service (2005). He has further twice received the outstanding faculty member award (2005 and 2013) in the College of Engineering, Education and Professional Studies at CSU-Pueblo and the inaugural Scholarship Award (2021) n the newly formed School of Health Science and Human Movement. In 2021, Dr. Dallam was named as one of three Distinguished Professors at CSUP, an honor bestowed in recognition of career achievements in teaching, scholarship and service within the CSU system.
Finally, Dr. Dallam has been continuously training and competing in triathlon since 1981.
Our human anatomy dictates that we should attempt to breathe through our noses whenever possible as a way to preserve our health; yet the vast majority of exercisers breathe through their mouths during exercise. While breathing orally allows for an increase in ventilation, increased work capacity, and initially perceived comfort, doing so also predisposes us to a variety of potential health problems. However, paradoxically, recent research, as well as long-held anecdotal observations in a small number of elite endurance athletes, suggests that humans can adapt to breathing nasally during exercise at all levels of intensity. This is true despite reduced ventilation and without loss in performance ability. Doing so engages the health-protecting conditioning aspects of the nasal anatomy, as well as improving one’s physiological economy. This book systematically addresses the research examining the possibility of adapting to nasal breathing during exercise as well as the health and performance-related implications of such a choice. It further suggests practical approaches based on the author's 19 years of experience breathing nasally as a competitive triathlete, as well as publishing research on the topic himself. The book is intended for those scientists, health professionals, exercisers, and athletes interested in both a better understanding of the topic and/or in implementing such an approach in their exercise program.
Chapter 1 – Introduction – Is Nasal Breathing during Exercise Really Possible?
Chapter 2 - The Anatomical and Physiological Differences and Implications of Breathing Nasally versus Orally during Exercise
Chapter 3 – The Experimental Science directly comparing Nasal and Oral Breathing during Exercise
Chapter 4 – The Potential Effects of Oral versus Nasal Breathing during Exercise on our Health
Chapter 5 – The Potential Effects of Oral versus Nasal Breathing on Exercise Performance
Chapter 6 - Practical Strategies for Implementing Nasal Breathing during Exercise
Dr. Dallam holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the School of Health Science and Human Movement at Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSUP). He has taught a wide variety of classes in exercise physiology, research and statistics, behavior facilitation, sport psychology, kinesiology, biomechanics, management, exercise assessment and prescription, swimming, running and triathlon. He is past chair and an ongoing member of the CSUP Institutional Review Board, as well as being the longtime chair of the CSUP Faculty Compensation Committee. He is also the former inaugural National Teams Coach for USA Triathlon and continued to work for many years with elite U.S. triathletes as a coach, advisor and consultant while at CSUP. Athletes coached directly by Dr. Dallam have included National Elite and Age Group Champions, Olympians, Pan American Games Medalists, World Age Group Champions and the top ranked male triathlete in the world in 2005-2006, Hunter Kemper.
Dr. Dallam has been involved in numerous research studies and the publication of their results at both CSUP and the USOC examining various aspects of triathlon performance and training, diabetes risk factor modification, and the effects of functional movement improvement on running. His primary research interest recently is focused on the capability of human beings to adapt to nasal only breathing during exercise as a way to improve both health and performance.
Dr. Dallam was both the founder and a long-term member of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters applying training principles to triathlon and is the co-author, with Dr. Steven Jonas, of Championship Triathlon Training, published in 2008 by Human Kinetics and Teaching and Coaching Triathlon Successfully, published in 2014 by Coaches Choice; as well as contributing invited chapters to the Complete Triathlon Guide and Triathlon Science, published by Human Kinetics in 2012 and 2013 respectively. He is also the author of The Nasal Breathing Paradox during Exercise, published in 2024 by Innovative Ink – Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. He is regularly sought as a speaker and expert on exercise related topics having provided insights to a broad range of publications and podcasts.
Dr. Dallam has received both the United States Olympic Committee’s Doc Counsilman Science in Coaching award (2004) and the National Elite Coach of the Year award (2005) for triathlon. He has also received all three of CSU-Pueblo’s university-wide awards for teaching (2001), scholarship (2003 and 2021) and service (2005). He has further twice received the outstanding faculty member award (2005 and 2013) in the College of Engineering, Education and Professional Studies at CSU-Pueblo and the inaugural Scholarship Award (2021) n the newly formed School of Health Science and Human Movement. In 2021, Dr. Dallam was named as one of three Distinguished Professors at CSUP, an honor bestowed in recognition of career achievements in teaching, scholarship and service within the CSU system.
Finally, Dr. Dallam has been continuously training and competing in triathlon since 1981.