Freestyle Breathing

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[loverboyblues]

thanks for posting....really helpful......i am messing up the breathing part. should i inhale through mouth and exhale under water through nose or any variation?? what would be more effective? thanks again.

[SWIMTHERAPY]

@loverboyblues Very much a personal preference, though most inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose. This applies to both trickle and explosive breathing

[SWIMTHERAPY]

I thought I had answered this. It may be possible to breathe in through your nose but we wouldn't recommend it.

The breathing action is less streamline and it is therefore, useful to breathe less when sprinting etc. I would not recommend breathing every 5 strokes beyond a 200m race ie we need to make sure that we do not go into oxygen debt for the sake of a little more streamline! We all have different lung capacities and breathing every 5 may work for you 100-200m...try it!

[SWIMTHERAPY]

We would always recommend breathing every 3, to balance the core development. This said, if a swimmer struggles with this, they can breathe every 2-4, providing they alternate the side they breathe from.

Breathe in through the mouth, not the nose. Regards Nigel

[jackrussellforsale]

Nigel i just started swimming after many , many years of not being in a pool, My problem is i experienced painful hiccups that lasted for 5 hours after swimming freestyle in a pool for a little over 1 hour. I also noticed that everytime i breath, I gulped down tons of air for fear of being out of breath when i return my face under water. My question is, how hard or softly should we breathe when turning to the side to breathe? I dont want to experience hiccups after a swimming session again. Tnx

[SWIMTHERAPY]

@jackrussellforsale I have never heard of the hiccup problem...suggest you speak to your GP. The intake of breath is quick ie you need to fill your lungs in a split second....are you exhaling correctly underwater?

[nounever]

Would swimming stunt my growth?

[emiliob7878]

excellent video

[bestxhack85]

thank you very much for the video

[riurijjir]

Cheers for this video.

[stefanicai]

Awesome, thank you a lot for this, it's an amazing video, I wanted to learn this for a long time! Really great work!

[spamstoper3]

5*****

[Nat23goswim]

i just won a gold medal for free style in college competitions between states...