catherine96821 This is the first time I found someone on this forum that also practice diving/free diving, I do free diving spearfishing regularly here in Florida (I don't do scuba diving)and back when I used to live in Cuba,It is difficult for me to explain but I can reach depths of -72 (and more) feet free-diving/Spear fishing relatively easy controlling my mind/breath but that came with practice and practice the same with bicycles, that's why I love to bike because when I'm not in the water It keeps my lungs, legs and mind well trained.

PD: Nice Web site by the way..:D

Your legs regulate your heart rate. You want to limit demand, not supply. If you want to lower your HR, lower the pressure on the pedals.

Another reason/thread I can't wait for better weather.

How to breathe??

But if I were to humor the OP, learning to breathe is a good thing. I think it may seem like breathing through the nose helps regulate your heart rate, but I suspect the opposite actually happens. The more you ride in that breathe-hard zone, the more efficent you (and your lungs) become and you reach a point where you can continue to breathe in normally with increased effort. At that point, you probably would feel like breathing through the nose is .. regulating your heart rate.

If it helps, folks who have incredibly tuned cardio systems still breathe through the mouth if needed (think Lance, Merckx, Hincapie etc) or when they are in the red zone. The average joe who asks about breathing on bikeforums.net would keel over in like red zone of aforementioned professionals (read: they do this for a living).

63 days before spring ..

ahh..well, it's amazing. I am just picking this bike thing up.
thanks.

Oh, you said it like you knew it was fact. Your question was "Anyone else ride with there mouth open for the majority of there ride?" So I thought you knew why it was better to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Yes, thanks to the input of the previous posters.

I would guess there are many things that we THINK we know because that was what we were taught that is completely wrong.

Tell you what Frank. When you have only 7 threads in your name over 4 years you really don't have much room to complain about thread subjects.

I just try to control my breathing rather then let my body do what it thinks it needs to when I'm pushing it. I just concentrate on taking slower deep breaths and I feel a lot better.

Take a couple of yoga classes.

They'll teach you how to breathe.

I wonder why they do this.... Is there any advantage?

Agreed, I think they were talking about recreational paces.

I have some kind of restriction in my nose that makes me to breath through my mouth for most of my rides, at least when I'm pushing it a little. Not a big problem to me, I don't think it's so bad as to need surgery.