How Asthma Affects Endurance Performance (Ask a Cycling Coach 280)
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- What is asthma, the effect asthma has on performance, how endurance exercise reduces asthma symptoms, why so many endurance athletes have asthma, why asthma doesn’t affect some endurance athletes, what is track-hack/ race-cough and more in this Quick Clip from Episode 280 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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From my experience, endurance training has been the best way to keep the majority of bad asthma symptoms at bay.
Same here... before I did regular exercise I would have panic attacks and short breathing and needed daily pulmicort... started riding and swimming and no more symptoms.
I was diagnosed with asthma as a child and experienced my first real "attack" running in the Junior Olympics. There were fires/smoke in the area and I had left my inhaler at home. Since then, I haven't needed my inhaler much but every Ramp Test has my lungs on fire well before my legs feel any pain at all. Maybe she should start making an appearance pre- Ramp Test on the regular!
I've always had asthma since I was a kid and its only gotten worse as I age. I have to warm up at least 1/2 hour before starting a TR workout and take a dose from my inhaler. My asthma is triggered by allergies as well as exercise. If I don't take my medication, I basically have the constant sensation of drowning while working out. Despite what people say, breathing through the nose does absolutely nothing to alleviate my asthma, in fact, it makes things worse as I cannot get as much air in my lungs.
I will say that TR workouts have helped with my stamina and endurance and I see myself maintaining my health and slowing my respiratory decline, so workouts will always be a part of my life. Thank you TR!
My experience with asthma stems from allergies. When I was younger my parents ignored the problem and I never had treatment until college. Then I was prescribed Tedral, a pill, composed of belladonna solids and ephedra. Both of those now are no longer used. There were other drugs too that I hated because of how they affected me. I learned to take small doses every night since I would not sleep because of breathing problems. Later in college I studied my problem as part of a physiology class project, wrote a paper about it (got an A) and my research led to being prescribed a powder (cromalyn sodium) which I inhaled that inhibited the mast cells lining my bronchial tree from degranulating and causing symptoms. This was in the late 1970's. This was at the time a cure for me for from that time on my experience improved. At the time I cold air, exercise, odors, just about anything triggered an attack. Even sleeping as I previously mentioned was difficult. Not long after I was enjoying running, cross-country and downhill skiing, cycling like never before. I had my life back. Fast forward 4 decades and today I have a couple of inhalers that I rarely use. Endurance sports have been my thing for the bulk of my life since those early days.
My parents smoked so I was exposed to 2nd hand smoke until I left home and joined the Army when I was 18. I went to Iraq in 2003 where we had to burn our feces and I was part of a task force exposed to large amounts of sulfur dioxide because we had to stop molten sulfur from contaminating the Tigris river. Iraq 2006 and 2009, and Afghanistan 2012, we had open burn pits.
It’s no surprise that I have breathing issues at intensity.
I was finally diagnosed with asthma in 2017 which is coincidentally around the same time I started cycling on a regular basis.
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Thanks guys, this answered everything for me!
Warmer weather seems to be better for my asthma, which I have had since I was born. But it also can be triggered by pet dander and other allergens that are in the environment like Nate said. My asthma has been better as an adult, and that is probably due to the endurance training like Chad said, and I think a big part is diet and supplementation, especially for athletes that are putting a lot of time on the bike. The more time on the bike the more free radicals your body has to deal with and supplementation can help with the free radicals, the less your immune system has to deal with. I just had a race, but since it was the first race in the cold and I forgot to take my inhaler, being out of practice, and also distracted from seeing all your racing competition for the first time in awhile my lungs immediately went into constriction. It was a struggle to get the lungs to cooperate just before the race even with the inhaler after they had already started to act up on the warm up after one hard effort, and post race I definitely had a bit of stuff coming out of the lungs. My guess is they were damaged a bit from me pushing through and racing when maybe I should have pulled the plug. If I take just one puff from the inhaler in the cold I never have an issue, so a big mistake on my end. Here is the short version of that Elite MTB race with some of the coughing that went along with it. czcams.com/video/7coXcfKwEPU/video.html
I was also diagnosed with allergy related mild asthma as a child, with more frequent bouts during winter. However recent asthma attacks I suffered from, have been linked to severe “silent” reflux as diagnosed by my GP. Prescribed medication for the reflux has virtually eliminated the last bout of asthma attacks. My reflux is mostly caused by an injury (hernia) as a result of a fall with my MTB where the handlebar tore my diaphragm. So just be aware that asthma is not always related to allergies, or strenuous exercise...
i´ve been diagnosed Asthma as a child. Sport without inhaling before, tends to end in a Nightmare :-(
I have athsma, only affected by dry cold weather or no warmups before intensity.
Do cycling with thin layer mask on, Cycle for atleast 20 min daily. You will gradually see increase in lung capacity.