I've been swimming seriously with a Masters group for about a year and a half now. I have no prior competitive swimming experience so my coach has had to fix lots of problems with my form as well as build my swim specific conditioning. I seem to have a lot of trouble with feeling gassy and needing to break wind towards the end of practice. Some evenings I get out of the pool and am quite bloated. It seems to happen on evenings when we do a lot more speed work and I am breathing hard. I am not naturally a sprinter in any sport and spent most of last year working on long distance OW events with less emphasis on speed. So working on sprints is still a developing skill. I'm guessing something is wrong with how I breathe. Any ideas or suggestions?
Ahh this made me think of a distance swimmer I swam with in my age group days. He would get brutal stomach cramps if he didn't "pull over" and break wind every 800-1000m. Gave you extra impetus to not breathe into the walls when he would be lurched over in the corner of the lane.
Ahh this made me think of a distance swimmer I swam with in my age group days. He would get brutal stomach cramps if he didn't "pull over" and break wind every 800-1000m. Gave you extra impetus to not breathe into the walls when he would be lurched over in the corner of the lane.
