When is asthma to blame for being out of breath? 

Who remembers Shaun T’s Insanity® DVD set released back in 2009? Now who tried and who completed the entire set?


Bored with my early morning fitness routines, I started working through this DVD set with a good friend after finding these videos packed away. I very quickly started questioning if I had exercise-induced asthma with just the “fit test!”



In the spring my daughter had begun training 2-3 times a week for her soccer team, and after talking with several of our patients, I knew for sure that cheer, softball, baseball, tee ball, track, golf and swimming had all been starting up around the same time (if they actually ever ended for some of my competitive patients and parents).



The combination of exercise and seasonal allergies has long been associated with what is often called “exercise-induced bronchospasm” or “exercise-induced asthma.” Are you or your child experiencing shortness of breath, chest tightness or cough associated with exercise? Should we be pushing ourselves (or our children) harder because we are “just out of shape”? Or could we be pushing children to do more than what their lungs will allow because they have asthma, eventually pushing them out of sports altogether because they “just don’t like sports”?