Air Being Forced From Lungs While Exercising

Misseena

I've noticed that when I do cardio exercise involving fast-paced arm movements (i.e. shadow boxing, jumping jacks, etc) I can feel air being forcefully expelled from my lungs. I have to breath super deep to counteract the air being forcefully pushed out of my lungs from my arm movements.

Has anyone experienced anything similar? Any ideas what's causing it? Is it all in my head?

Any responses are appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help!

Doodlewhopper

Sounds kinda bizarre. Check in with your doc. You definitely dont want to be diagnosed by some yo-yo like me on a message board, but out of curiosity I googled and found this & only sharing it for the reason that it explains lung dynamics. I am not suggesting that you have COPE; I am totally clueless.

The act of expiration under normal conditions is passive, and simply involves the chest wall and diaphragm relaxing, and the elastic forces within the the lung and chest wall that have been stretched out by inspiration, now retract to their resting state. The lung therefore collapses and pushes the stale air out.

There are muscles in the rib cage and that can actively cause the rib cage to contract, and push air out. And if the muscles of the abdominal wall contract, they cause the diaphragm to be pushed up into the chest cavity, and press on the lungs, and thereby further assist active expiration. Normally however these expiratory muscles are not used, except during conditions of exercise, where they are used to literally pump air in and out of the lungs
http://www.sierrabiotech.com/bt_copd_dbc.html

Google "Dynamic Bronchial Compression" and see where it leads you.

Sycoholic

WebMD says you either have dengue fever or a splinter. Just kidding. Sounds normal. Anything hurt? Why are you asking?