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[DunDunDunpachi]

Posted on behalf of yasuke (neophytes and new members, you can also do that here)

I have heard that natural breathing should be in the belly. I'm curious to know how many people are naturally belly breathers.

 

[TrainedRage]

Belly. Unless im working out. Then it seems to be both.

 

[Ovek]

Chest if I think about it otherwise I have no idea.

 

[Bluntman]

The basic idea is that men are belly and women are breast breathers afaik.

 

[Fbh]

I don't know man, I have asthma. Breathing in general just doesn't seem to be my thing

 

[Mista]

I’m over-breathing to check and only my belly is moving

 

[highrider]

I’m a lung breather.

 

[Papa]

I breathe through my butthole and spew putrid shit-riddled bile from my mouth

 

[yet_another_alt]

I've been called a mouth breeder plenty of times.

 

[12Goblins]

Everyone should be a belly breather.

 

[12Goblins]

Your stomach should rise when you inhale.

 

[Tesseract]

fatties itt

 

[Cunth]

Belly? What am I, an opera singer?

 

[whiteninja]

I breathe with my sides like a lizard

 

[Mihos]

I had singing lessons as a kid and had to practice stomach breathing

 

[brap]

I breathe through my butthole and spew putrid shit-riddled bile from my mouth

We know. We all read your posts matthew.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Everyone should be a belly breather.

This is true. My speech therapist would say not enough people actually breathe using their diaphragm and yet it's how you get the most air into your lungs.

 

[-Minsc-]

Chest.

Maybe that helps explain why I was a loner.

 

[Helios]

The basic idea is that men are belly and women are breast breathers afaik.

Men and Women are both chest breathers, though they expand their chest in different ways. Children and old people are belly.

 

[bronk]

Breath deep from your gut and you can belch out some serious gutturals.

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

Definitely a mouth breather. In the insult-type of way, I mean.

 

[haxan7]

I have pectus excavatum (where your chest looks sunken in or seems like it has a “hole”). I was always a chest breather until I learned about belly breathing, and started doing that to reduce my shortness of breath.

I now breathe with belly first, and then chest, at least when I’m taking a deep breath (which I do very frequently). That’s probably the most efficient way to do it when you’re taking a deep breath. My regular breaths are a combo of chest and belly.

If you smoke or are around other pollutants, i imagine it’s probably best to not inhale deeply if you can avoid it. That way when you get older, the deepest part of your lungs won’t be as worn down as the upper parts.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Never thought of this, but I feel like I'm a belly breather. Always been like this. When I inhale, I feel nothing above my sternum. All the action is where my fat gut is.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I now breathe with belly first, and then chest, at least when I’m taking a deep breath (which I do very frequently). That’s probably the most efficient way to do it when you’re taking a deep breath. My regular breaths are a combo of chest and belly.

??? I'm not sure what this means.

A breath is a breath. How can someone control how or where it happens?

 

[haxan7]

??? I'm not sure what this means.

A breath is a breath. How can someone control how or where it happens?

Chest and belly can expand separately during a breath. Expanding your belly takes the breath in deeper, corresponding with its position on your lower torso and it’s position relative to your lungs.

I’d guess you never noticed because your chest and lungs anatomy are strong enough that breathing was never something you had to think about consciously.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Chest and belly can expand separately during a breath. Expanding your belly takes the breath in deeper, corresponding with its position on your lower torso and it’s position relative to your lungs.

I’d guess you never noticed because your chest and lungs anatomy are strong enough that breathing was never something you had to think about consciously.

I guess so. Never had issues with breathing. Now if someone can solve my shins from getting shin splints when I run that's what I need help with. lol.

As for breathing, only time there's an issue is I'm wearing a shirt or jacket with little give, I breath in, and my fat ass gut expands. One time a button blew off my shirt as it was getting snug over the years (right at the stomach part). lol

 

[Kamina]

Both it seems

 

[Fushitsusha]

Neither.

 

[MilkyJoe]

Belly breather?