running cramps Tag

Ask The Expert: How to Avoid Running Cramps

Ask The Expert is a health & fitness advice column. If you have a question for one of our Fitness Goop experts, please email [email protected]. This question was asked by Lori from Vancouver B.C, Canada. I am wanting to know why I get stitches in the side of my stomach when I go for a run. I have tried to keep running through the cramping, but they continue. A friend mentioned that it may be related to the way I am breathing while I run, if this is so, how should I be breathing to help eliminate these uncomfortable sensations?” Spring...