Breathing on the first stroke in distance free

:agree: As a breaststroker, the most difficult thing for me is the last pullout on a 200 race. :afraid: I thought that last turn was bad for everybody! One thing I started doing Elaine, after my race in Feb @ Auburn, when I thought I was going to just die on the last turn of the blasted 200 *** (why, oh why do I enter that race?) - in practice, as much as possible I will do 2 kicks on my pullout and then the pull. I also do that drill where you take two underwater kicks and then a pull - and do three underwater kicks instead. Due to a severe illness as a child I only have 1 1/4 lungs left - which is how I got into swimming to begin with. You can increase your lung power, even as you age, even as you loose the elasticity of your tissues - but you have to be stubborn & persistent. I've noticed quite a difference already., and during my race at the end of March, it was still a ruff turn, but much better.

:agree: As a breaststroker, the most difficult thing for me is the last pullout on a 200 race. :afraid: I thought that last turn was bad for everybody! One thing I started doing Elaine, after my race in Feb @ Auburn, when I thought I was going to just die on the last turn of the blasted 200 *** (why, oh why do I enter that race?) - in practice, as much as possible I will do 2 kicks on my pullout and then the pull. I also do that drill where you take two underwater kicks and then a pull - and do three underwater kicks instead. Due to a severe illness as a child I only have 1 1/4 lungs left - which is how I got into swimming to begin with. You can increase your lung power, even as you age, even as you loose the elasticity of your tissues - but you have to be stubborn & persistent. I've noticed quite a difference already., and during my race at the end of March, it was still a ruff turn, but much better.