The Singapore Lifehacker

Photo by terren in Virginia.

When I was a kid there was a story I used to hear a lot. It was a story about heaven and hell, and it went something like this:

There was a holy man who was caught up in a dream and taken on a tour of heaven and hell. In hell he found all the people sitting around a great big table laden with all kinds of food. Everyone had a big bowl of rice, and all kinds of delicious dishes were in the centre. But all the people were starving, because the chopsticks were too long to use and reached all the way to the other end of the table.

Next he was taken to heaven, where to his surprise he found the same thing. Again all the people were seated around a huge table laden with delectable goodies, and again the chopsticks reached all the way to the other end of the table. But all the people were fed, and all the people were happy. For there was one important difference: the people in heaven were feeding each other.

Great story, right?

Not to me.
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Photo by judhi.

Today I tried out a technique I learnt from Ravi Raman of sethigherstandards.com, applied to running: breathing through your nose.

Sounds weird, right? After all, when running our natural tendency is to breathe through the mouth — whether in through the nose and out through the mouth, as in swimming, or both in and out through the mouth. After all, the mouth is bigger than the nose, and should thus result in a greater supply of oxygen to the lungs… right?

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