time to beat a dead horse. i've learned a few things since this thread died out. i have notes available that i will try to post a link here from my patient diagnosis class.
it said a few things i've said. nose is for breathing, yada, yada. but what i didn't know is that when you breathe through your nose the air goes through the sinuses in your head and produce NO. nitric oxide kills bacteria. most. or some. NO also relaxes your arteries and expands them. this gets more blood which brings more O2 to your muscles. it's the main ingredient to a real popular medicine i'm sure you've all heard of. viagra, cialis. that's a bad thing, right?
i also went to a seminar to learn to do rehab. rehabilitation to performance. R2P. if you have any providers near you i highly recommend getting checked out. they borrow from Janda school of Prague, McGill. FMS, SFMS, PRI, DNS. lots of acronyms i'm not sure i can explain. functional movement screen, sport """, yeah, the other two i don't know.
they taught us to assess people's movement and finally their breathing. it was last but most important. i can't find the quote in the notes they gave us. i believe it was Janda who said "without proper breathing you have dysfunction everywhere."
i went through the 7 screens and failed almost everything miserably. i thought i would at least do well with breathing but my core is too weak. i thought my squat was good but i butt winked quickly. i've been working on my weakness so i can improve and run again. "core stability before distal mobility."
ok, i think my notes are too big for this. if anyone is really curious enough to read them i can email them. i may start another thread when i get results with everything that i'm doing so that others can ask questions and have some guidance.