does your ability to run have any thing to do with anything with how well you can breath?

Answer 1

I"m sure lung capacity would have a lot to do with how far or how fast a person can physically exert themselves.

Answer 2

running has as much to do with your heart and other muscles as it does your breathing. From my own experience I can tell you that I have asthma, and I ran cross country for 4 years. As long as I was in shape, wasn't hurting anyway my breathing really didn't affect my running. I have mild asthma though, and knowing how to breath helps quite a bit. Of course if my asthma were worse it would make a difference. So the answer isn't near as clear as we would all like. it depends on other factors as well as your breathing, but if any one of those factors is off balance they can make a sizable differance to your ability.

Answer 3

absolutely.

to power the muscles for any kind of motion, a chemical reduction of special molecules takes place directly in the muscle tissue, which provides the chemical energy for the contraction of the muscle which is actually brought about by the reconfiguration of complicated protein molecules... but i wander off... if you want to know more about this process google for the term 'ATP to ADP reduction'.

anyway, as the term reduction, already implicates, this special and absolutely vital chemical reaction needs the direct involvement of oxygen. incidentally this the only place where it comes into the whole metabolism, and the only reason for all the breathing business.

and yes, the 'better' you breathe, the more oxygen per second your muscles get, and the more energy they can burn for their motion.
the tricky term here is the word 'better' of course. there are three main factors affecting the efficiency of your breathing apparatus.

one is the volume of your lungs obviously: the more air you can suck in, the more oxygene can be filtered out of it.
directly connected to this is the second factor: technique.
you can learn to breathe in a way that allows you to take full advantage of your lungs volume.
thirdly there is your lungs ability to actually filter oxygen from the air, which is set genetically, but can be bolstered by training, or impeded by unhealthy habits or environments.

to make a long story short, all these factors and many others besides, all bear on your ability to produce the necessary energy for your muscles to perform the desired motions.

but of course oxygen supply is in itself only one of the many factors that affect the quality of your running.
but i think i better stop here. i believe somewhere in this i answered your initial question... if not, feel free to ask again ;)

Answer 4

I don't know how breathing would affect sprinters but I can tell you about long-distance runners. I am Kenyan and I can run up to 5 hours nonstop at a moderate pace on a treadmill. No one I know thinks this is normal. I researched it and discovered that geneticists have isolated a gene (especially) in my tribe that enables us to consume oxygen and dissipate lactic acid more efficiently which makes for faster runners who take longer to tire. I think this is just a natural mutation because my tribe lives in the highlands where the air is very rarefied so naturally, we would have adapted to consume oxygen more efficiently. If you notice, a lot of times runners are trained in the mountains, I think this is to adapt their bodies to remaining physically strong while breathing a lower amount of oxygen. So, yes, for distance runners, how well you can breathe as well as breathing technique is important.

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Hope I helped.

Answer 5

Your ability to run involves a lot of things:
Obviously smokers have problems with running due to breathing problems.
If you aren't a smoker, running a lot can condition you to run for longer periods of time and ease the breathing problems.
So even if you have problems breathing, keep running, you'll get used to it.

Answer 6

It probably has to do with some of it but i know the guy i like can run really good but doesn't breathe that well. hoped i helped.

Answer 7

The most important factor is your ability to breathe.

Answer 8

the blood in our bodies are supplied with oxygen, necessary for life, by the lungs. Running uses alot of oxygen, so, if you are otherwise healthy, running will increase the demand on the lungs to transfer more oxygen to the blood to feed the muscles needing it caused by running, this causes healthy lungs to grow more alveoli and enable them to absorb more oxygen. This is only true of healthy lungs however. Lungs damaged by smoking, or disease, simply cannot keep up with demand and can no longer grow more alveoli.

Answer 9

Not exactly, but really the more you run the better you can breathe unless you have a lung problem/disease. But your lung problems do seem to get better the more you exercise. Be good to your lungs!

Answer 10

Yes!... If you smoke or are overweight you tend to get out of breath alot faster than someone who is in shape and doesn't smoke.