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When it comes to normal labor and delivery, what always comes to mind is the lady in the ancient costume drama who had a difficult labor, and after taking a look at the child after delivery, she was exhausted and fainted …… and so on! Let’s not scare ourselves! Here is a “battle-experienced” “Lamaze birth breathing method”, quickly take a look.

01What is Lamaze Productive Breathing

“The Lamaze Birthing Breathing Method, also known as “Psychoprophylaxis for Natural Birth”, is a pre-labor workout for pregnant mothers that trains you in neuromuscular control, prenatal gymnastics, and breathing techniques, and is suitable for use in the 7th trimester of pregnancy – labor and delivery.

02Learning Lamaze Production Breathing

Then Lamaze Birth Breathing Method, which contains 6 movements, which are Contour Breathing, Chest Breathing, Shallow and Slow Accelerated Breathing, Shallow Breathing, Closed Breath Push Exercise, and Candle Blowing Exercise, as long as the pregnant mother practiced it more often, she will be able to slow down the pain of labor and delivery, and also eliminate the fear of prenatal, so the baby is born in good health.

I. Contour Breathing

Purpose: The whole body relaxes, and the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body is maintained.

Method: Slowly take a deep breath in through the nose and slowly exhale out through the mouth. (Like blowing out a candle.)

Chest Breathing

Time: At the initial stage, the uterus opens 2 to 3 cm. each contraction lasts 30 to 50 seconds, with an interval of 5 to 20 minutes.

Method: The mother-to-be relaxes completely. Eyes on a fixed point; inhale through the nose, can feel the chest contour puffed up, mouth exhalation, the chest contour slowly return to its original position, the abdomen to remain relaxed; roughly 6 to 9 times per minute, breathing smoothly, the amount of breath evenly.

Third, shallow and slow accelerated breathing

Time: Accelerated stage, uterine opening 4 to 8 cm. This is the longest and most strenuous stage of labor for the mother-to-be, with contractions occurring once every 2 to 4 minutes for about 1 minute each time.

Method: The mother-to-be relaxes completely and gazes at a fixed point. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth; synchronize your breathing with the strengthening and slowing of the uterine contractions.

Shallow Breathing

Time: During the transition phase, the uterus opens 8 to 10 cm. contractions are strong and frequent. The contraction time is 1 minute to 1 minute and a half, every half a minute to 1 minute and a half contraction.

Method: The mother-to-be relaxes completely and gazes her eyes at a fixed point. Slightly open your mouth for inhalation and exhalation (make a hee-hee-hee-hee sound). Keep breathing high and vocalize at the throat; be careful to avoid hyperventilating; take 4 to 6 consecutive rapid inhalations and exhalations followed by even exhalations and repeat until the end of the contraction.

V. Closed-air exertion exercise

Time: The cervix is fully open (10cm). At this stage, the fetus will be delivered at any time and it is also the most difficult time. The length of this period is determined by whether the mother-to-be will push. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the uterine contractions when exertion, and the uterus stops contractions rest and completely relax, in order to obtain the strength to struggle again.

Sixth, blowing out candles exercise

Time: When you can’t push, but you can’t help but want to push.

How to do it: Breathe quickly by blowing out candles.

Last but not least, labor is a physical activity and it is difficult to complete this arduous process without sufficient energy. Therefore, expectant mothers should get enough rest on their due date, sleep enough for 8 hours a day, take a proper lunch break at noon, and avoid doing activities that consume physical energy.

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Many people know that running can strengthen your body, keep you in shape, detoxify your body, and so on. In fact, there is another benefit of running that is overlooked by many people: increased energy.

01How Running Increases Energy

The key to our enhanced energy is to fully activate cellular vitality, because cells are the most basic life elements that make up a living organism, all body organs are made up of cells, and only with healthy cells can we build an energized body. The most important nutrient for cells is oxygen. When cells are supplied with sufficient oxygen, they are energized and the body glows with health. Moreover, oxygen is a key element for cells to oxidize and break down substances such as sugar and fat and release large amounts of energy.

 

To energize yourself, you need to create a healthy physical environment where oxygen is efficiently transmitted and absorbed, releasing large amounts of energy while fully activating your cells. Running is the key to achieving this.

02The Key to Proper Running – Correct Posture

Although running can help us improve our mental vitality quickly, but if you run in the wrong posture, instead of running, you will get worse. So what is the correct running posture?

 

We can analyze it from the following three aspects:

 

First look at the way of landing when running. If you run with a forefoot landing, the Achilles tendon and calf muscles can assist in slowing down the impact after landing. Help us to reduce the pressure on the joints and bones; to improve the strength of the calf muscles and Achilles tendon, so that they synergistically cushion the impact of the landing; do not appear excessive stride when running, to avoid the formation of shear stress leading to knee injuries.

 

Secondly, the knee should maintain a certain degree of bending when running. This allows the muscles to be utilized to relieve the impact when the foot hits the ground. If the knees are straight, the impact when the feet hit the ground falls back on the bones and joints.

 

Then you need to increase the speed of your stride. Step frequency, is the speed at which you alternate between landing on both feet. The longer your feet are off the ground, the greater the impact caused when you land, so the faster the stride frequency, the less impact caused when you land.

What is the appropriate pace for running? About 180 beats per minute. Many people do not know how to check their own running pace speed, you can wear a heart rate monitor when running, its cell phone can automatically display the pace speed, try to make the frequency in the process of running

Try to keep your cadence at 180 beats per minute.

 

Finally, try not to stomp the ground with your heels when running. We can observe that some students’ calf muscles are very large, which may be caused by using the calf too much when running, especially when the back foot pushes the ground. Moreover, if we stomp hard when running, it will increase the friction and make the heel stay on the ground for a longer time, which is equivalent to stepping on the brake and then starting again, and our running speed will not be fast enough.

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Having a good body is the desire of many people, but in order to improve immunity and strengthen the body, it is definitely necessary to move and drill. So many people choose to use running, an environmentally friendly and convenient exercise, to exercise their bodies. Running stride is very important for running, and today we will learn about stride. Stride is the distance of a step when we run, to the center of the foot to count, the same foot between two consecutive landings, even if the stride is stride.

So what does stride length represent? Some people are inherently taller, and if they have long legs, then when they run, their stride length is naturally larger than others. Generally speaking, when the stride frequency is similar, the larger the stride, the faster the pace, which actually means the running ability is stronger. But students who do not have long legs should not worry; through the latter days of hard practice, they can also improve the size of the stride. Next,  take a look at several strengthening stride training methods!

01High Leg Exercises

First of all, we have to swing the arms of both hands. In the process of practicing, the bending angle of the legs should naturally become 90 degrees. When one leg is lifted, the other leg should be as straight as possible. It can also be appropriate to learn some high-leg running action; through the high-leg exercise, we can fully exercise our lower abdomen, waist, and abdominal muscles. Pay attention to exercise, from slow to fast gradually.

02Uphill running with a back kick

When we practice uphill running, because the center of gravity of the body is forward, our torso will lean forward, and we need to unconsciously increase the pace to keep the body stable. Often, practicing uphill running is conducive to strengthening the stride.

Rear kick running in the practice of the main attention to three issues, first of all, the body should be slightly leaning forward, secondly, to use the toe stomp off the ground, swing the leg, using the knee joint to drive the hips to swing forward, and finally the foot off the ground when the rear kick with the thigh folded, the knee joint is relaxed, so that it is close to the hip.

03Exercise leg strength

We are running to a large extent to use the leg muscle strength, so increasing leg strength is also a way to increase the stride. You can choose to do some weighted exercises in the gym, but also in daily life, pay more attention to the exercise legs, such as in training to increase some of the frog jump, squatting, etc., which can be very good to help us exercise the thigh muscles, thus enhancing the stride capacity.

04jumping jacks

There are several points to note in the practice of the stride jump. First of all, you can perform sprints and mid-range runners to assist the jump, improve the jumping foot to land quickly, and increase the distance by swinging the legs and arms and driving the body with a hard upward swing of the arms, combined with a runner’s jump.

Whether you are a fast runner or a jogger, stride length is also just a way to assist you in increasing your pace. During running, you should still try to focus on your heart rate and stride frequency, and I believe that by learning more about running, your ability to run will be greatly increased!