Stitch In Left Side Without Exercise

Stitch in left side during exercise, everyone knows the phenomenon. Especially novice athletes often experience there without knowing its cause. What can you do about it? How to prevent stitch? Here are some tips.

Why stitch in the side?

Researchers are not entirely agree, but they suspect the stitch they come from a lack of oxygen in the respiratory muscles in the diaphragm. But how do you get that oxygen deficiency? If your sport involves a lot of blood to the muscles you use for your sport. During exercise there is relatively less oxygen to your breathing muscles than usual. And in the case of stitch like pain in left side under ribs so is too little oxygen (blood) to the diaphragm.

How to prevent stitch in the side?

• A good warm-up (and thus good circulation of the respiratory muscles) considerably reduces the likelihood of stitch. It is anyway good for your muscles and joints to do a warm-up.
• Relaxing the diaphragm by a match or training will also reduce the chance stitch. How do you relax then your diaphragm? Breathe several times deeply in and out from your belly.
• Eat or drink anything right before a workout or competition. Incomplete digestion of food can cause stitch.
• Train your abs. If your abs are strong, the chance of stitch smaller, this is partly due to stronger abs get the respiratory muscles during landing a small "shock"

Breathe When Training

Perhaps also worth trying is called respiratory muscle training. The idea is to strengthen the respiratory muscles by breathing against resistance. Strength training for your respiratory muscles so. This way you could breathe and improve your breathing rhythm more air at a time, but also provide strong respiratory muscles for a stronger hull. This ensures, among other things, that reduces the pressure on the diaphragm.

Nevertheless load during exercise? The following tips may help:

• Try to breathe from the abdomen instead of the chest.
• Do anything slow down, let your heart rate drop something and go deeper breathing.
• Change your breathing rhythm. By stitch left exhale when your left foot hits the ground (and every second only to the left).
• When stitch the right, this is, of course, the other way around.
• Stretch your diaphragm / abs. Give your body the space. You must then take a break to do that.
• Does not all this? Stop and start easy next time.
• Do you still stitch at your side after exercise? Go on your back to your hips and legs higher than your torso. The stitch will disappear very quickly.

When cycling I have no sting and running well. Why does it a sport?

How intense is the sport or how intensively you exercise, the greater the likelihood of stitch in the side. Running is usually more intensive than bicycles. Sports with much jerking (ideally running or sports where you walk or jump (hard)) provide more frequent symptoms than sports without (or with little) jerking (cycling, skating, rollerblading) because the pressure on the diaphragm is greater in jerking.

Perhaps you have some of these tips or do you have another tip.