Hello,
I'm excited to be here and excited to be back in the water again after about 12 years!
I have numerous questions/things I'm excited to improve on so I thought I'd start with one: my whole life (so basically for 30 years) I've only been breathing on the right when I do freestyle. Any tips for breaking this habit and learning to breath on the left? I honestly can't even remember how I learned to breath on the right the first time around....I've just always only done it that way. I think I'm partly afraid if I just try it, I'll end up drinking the pool..plus it just doesn't feel natural.
Thanks!
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Originally posted by mark_varney47
Second drill,is to swim laps breathing on the "wrong side" only.
That's how I broke my one-side-only habit. I started by forcing myself to swim every other lap breathing only on the wrong side. It was danged hard at first, but after a few workouts everything started loosening up on that side, and my stroke became more symmetrical. After that I just forced myself into an alternate side rhythm, and now I don't even think about it.
Originally posted by mark_varney47
Second drill,is to swim laps breathing on the "wrong side" only.
That's how I broke my one-side-only habit. I started by forcing myself to swim every other lap breathing only on the wrong side. It was danged hard at first, but after a few workouts everything started loosening up on that side, and my stroke became more symmetrical. After that I just forced myself into an alternate side rhythm, and now I don't even think about it.
