Why is there a certain pain after or while running? (SOLVED)

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So I went out for a little jogging today, after 30 minutes of running, I noticed this pain coming up in my body. I actually have been stuck with this question a long time and I'm pretty sure all of us have experienced it:

What causes this pain? Is it due to a lack of oxygen? Is it due to of that part of the body being tired or something? Bad condition?
 
Because your lungs and chest muscles are expanding and contracting more than they're used to and thus, hurt.

Every time you do some sort of excercise your body isn't used to (or even if you're used to it, but you do it intensely), your body will tear tissues which are later regenerated... that's why after doing excercises or weights your muscles hurt the following day.

It's nto lack of oxygen, it's lack of use.
 
Wait are we talking muscular, or cramp?

Cramp should be more 'stabbing', muscular kind of like over stretched, well to me it is.

Cramp is worsend by dehydration and poor diet. Though is chemically a lack of oxygen (anaerobic respiration produces lactic acid.)
 
It hurts because your not supposed to do that! :dopey:

Running is bad for you!!! It stresses everything you have in the way of muscles, joints, and useless cardio-vascular stuff! Rent a movie and siddown!

Seriously, Diego's got it, I think. It's been a while since I had such pains, but from what I remember, it seemed to be that my ribs felt too small.
 
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from what I remember, it seemed to be that my ribs felt too small.
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that's part of it too... your lungs need much more air because they're not used to it, so they expand more, nudging the rib cage and in some cases, causing minor lacerations on the outer lung wall... that's why it burns to breathe too :crazy:
 
Other pain issues are to do with the build up of Lactic Acid in your muscles. That's why your body, usually certain parts like arms/legs, burn after intensive exercise.

More complicated explaination here.
 
I used to feel pain coming from the right side of my stomach. Not even my stomach, I think it was a little more below that, like near my pancreas.
 
When I run for long distances I get a really bad side cramps, I talked to my school nurse and she told me that when I run to breath in through my noise and out with my mouth. So I'd tried it and it helped a lot.
 
Diablomonkey
When I run for long distances I get a really bad side cramps, I talked to my school nurse and she told me that when I run to breath in through my noise and out with my mouth. So I'd tried it and it helped a lot.
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That's what we call a stitch.
 
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I used to feel pain coming from the right side of my stomach. Not even my stomach, I think it was a little more below that, like near my pancreas.
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I think this is pretty much the thing I'm feeling. Sometimes it goes away because I just keep on running but sometimes, it rarely occurs though as I train my running skills, it hurts so much, I have to stop and sit down of the pain and catch my breath before I can continue. Sometimes even walking then is a lot of pain but I guess I'm pushing it too much then...My dad explained me it is due to bad breathing methods. I don't know if it's true but he runs 20 kilometres non-stop...
 
So I've been running again today, 10 kilometres without stopping even once. I felt some pain though but I read pushing on the spot where it hurts kind of really hard and breath out as much as possible somehow managed to take the pain away so I guess it's just something you get when you're not trained on sports.
 
Ultrashot, a way of testing out whether it is due to bad breathing or just general unfitness is to generally have two stages next time you're out running.

The first stage, would be a medium paced run, with the breathing pattern established at a comfortable pace. Continue that for a few miles/minutes, whichever you have time for.

The second stage of the test can be slightly difficult to gauge. Mainly, this involves alternating short sprints with a slightly-slower-than-the-meduim-pace run earlier. Therefore, I guess you could do something like 50 metres *near* max sprint then drop down to normal or slightly slower pace after that for about a minute, and then repeat. Generally, if you can only do about two or three of these, you're generally not quite there, fitness wise and will need to be more patient before gradually building speed into your running.

This will allow you to assess whether it is bad breathing pattern (as in the first stage, if you have bad breathing pattern, you'll be out of breath and feel pain everywhere in your body.....generally) or lack of fitness for running (in the second stage, as explained).

However, from reading the line of:

"...pushing on the spot where it hurts kind of really hard and breath out as much as possible..."

Actually sounds more of a cramp issue in your, I presume, calves. Breathing in as much and as out as possible (but not hyperventilating!) does increase the oxygen flow to the muscles, which will help the muscles to break down teh lactic acid. I presume that the muscles are constricting on their own or seem to have a mind of its own? IF that is the case, streching will also help to do before hand.

I must confess that I don't run, but I do a lot of swimming. When I have had a holiday from the swimming training and have come back to train again, I generally have to start slow and the build up, or I'll just get loads of cramps and lots and lots of pain....in my lungs and body, cos of the need to push so hard for times and staminia. Thankfully, I don't do so much of the swimming..

:D

I hope this helps

Submerged
 
That was an interesting read 👍 I'll definitly do some test and see what it'll give 👍
 
Did another 10 km today, without any pain at all. My conclusion:

This pain is due to lack of condition and/ or training 👍


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