Last time you had a stitch?

[stetheboro]

I have no idea why but today I remembered getting stitches when running when younger.

Do people still get stitches when running as I don't run anymore or is it like non-existent white dog shit and it was all in the food?

 

[HurdyGurdyMushroomMan]

Nahh as your anaerobic system develops through training harder, the stitches start to diminish, stitches are your body sayin your muscles cant oxygenate with blood alone, a stitch is telling you to stop... you gradually teach your muscles that oxygen is available elsewhere (anaerobic - converting complex sugars in carbohydrates stored in food in to oxygen for the muscle groups that are workin hardest) by training thru the pain.

i might be talkin bollox im fuckin wasted here, so google all that to be sure

 

[Miss C]

Yeah I occasionally get stitches when I train really hard or do vigourous excercise really quickly, perhaps you notice them less when you're older because some people don't do as much running around/vigourous excercise etc like you do as a kid or in school P.E. lessons etc?

Its actually supposed to be to do with strain on your diaphragm and liver caused from the downward tug put on your liver when you're running...you're liver is attached to your diphragm by ligaments that are stretched and strained when you run/excercise...made worse by the way you're breathing etc...this is the main I found when I looked it up last when I was traning for a run...i'm although there are other similar theories about a lack of blood supply to the diaphragm.

 

[tricky nicky]

i saw some white dog shit the other week and thought of this site!!!!
was gonna take a pic of it but thought i would look like a nutter to passers by:S

 

[Northern Star]

I get a stitch just running up the stairs

 

[Jiglo]

I haven't had a stitch for yrs.

Usually what happens with me after 10-15 mins on the treadmill is the water that I drank beforehand starts trying to come back up again:|