Breathing excercise

[supertramp]

Hi all. I am asthmatic , and take a regular steroid inhaler, which helps but, and here is the issue, when i jump during a lesson i get so breathless, to the point i feel sick. Does anyone have any exercises or tips to help me get around a course of show jumps , am planning to do a small competition very soon and would prefer not to be blue in the face when we finish. It gets to the stage where struggle to get a breath. I know this is me, as today on a hack we had a wonderful gallop and by the end my breathing as normal. All help gratefully received.

 

[soulfull]

I had similar problems with even a dressage test. It's all about making sure you keep breathing and the thing that helped me the most was periodically during the day and several times just before I get on I take really deep breaths and deliberately imagine making my lungs bigger.