Exercise with asthma

Asthma can be a nui­sance when your want­ing to exer­cise and increase your fit­ness how­ever there are numer­ous ways to do so that wont be dan­ger­ous at all and are as affec­tive as the exer­cise every­one else does. If you dont know what asthma is, its a lung dis­ease that has side affects such as cough­ing, short­ness of breath and chest tight­ness among  many things. Typ­i­cally, asthma is genetic or envi­ron­men­tally pre­dis­posed to the con­di­tion. Some of the things that could cause an asthma attack to become worse include alle­gen expo­sure, res­pi­ra­tory infec­tion, air­way irri­ta­tion, exer­cise and expo­sure to a vari­ety of other things such as dust, dust mites or even cockroaches.

Although asthma is com­mon and there are lots of dif­fer­ent things that can trig­ger it off and make it worse, there are also things you can do to pre­vent asthma attacks from occur­ring. Some of the things that can reduce the chance of hav­ing an asthma attack and even pre­vent it all together include bathing your pets on a weekly basis, dont smoke or hang around smok­ers, wash your bed­ding reg­u­lar and other mate­r­ial your reg­u­larly in con­tact with,get a flu injec­tion, be win­ter wise and avoid high pollen areas. Although these are some key points that you should take into con­sid­er­a­tion you should also know what sets you off from your own per­sonal expe­ri­ence and you should avoid these trig­gers at all cost so you dont have an asthma attack.

Although learn­ing about asthma isnt exactly exer­cise ori­en­tated, its impor­tant as if you know what asthma is and how its caused and how to spot trig­gers etc you can make sure when you do exer­cise you can be smart about it and set pre­cau­tions for when you exer­cise so you can avoid asthma attacks. The gen­eral advice by oth­ers suf­fer­ing from asthma and doc­tors is to par­take in exer­cise but to be care­ful and to keep an inhaler on you and the nec­es­sary med­ica­tion. Its also rec­om­mended you dont use your inhaler more then three times over the period of an exer­cise ses­sion. Its also rec­om­mended if you have an asthma attack you should not exer­cise within a 24hr dura­tion from the attack.

Another thing about asthma that is com­monly known is some­thing called exer­cise induced asthma which is caused by exer­cise typ­i­cally five to ten min­utes after you start. It can also be worse in dry or cold air. If you have exer­cise induced asthma theres three activ­i­ties you can eas­ily do which include swim­ming, walk­ing and bike rid­ing along with a vari­ety of other activ­i­ties which are asthma friendly. Even if you are doing these activ­i­ties though, you should still keep your asthma inhaler handy.

Just because you have asthma it doesnt mean you cant exer­cise, as long as you stick to the activ­i­ties men­tion in this arti­cle and are self con­scious about what causes your asthma then theres no rea­son you cant lead a pro exer­cise life.

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